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Old 10-24-2005, 11:37 PM
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Question Is it just me...

or am I the only one who's driver's seat sheds a pile of foam all over the rear floor mat? Is there any way to fix this before my seat totally disentigrates? Drives me nuts!
Old 10-25-2005, 07:45 AM
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I have never seen this. Has the cover come unstitched or torn? Have any pictures of the spot where its coming out?
Old 10-25-2005, 08:49 AM
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Every single Trans Am Ive owned does this too! Id like to know if theres a fix as well!
Old 10-25-2005, 09:14 AM
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My camaro has the same thing happening. I plan on just getting new seats in the future. I'm a pretty big guy, so I guess every time I get in, I slide on the leather pretty hard. Sucks
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Interesting... I will have to check out my rear floor mat...
Old 10-25-2005, 09:39 AM
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If it happens to you you wouldnt have to check lol you could tell. Mine does the same thing. Clean the car out and few hours later there is another pile of foam. Would be nice to know how to stop it.
Old 10-25-2005, 09:50 AM
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As the foam wears it begins to fall apart. There isn't much you can do. It will just get worse as time goes on.
Old 10-25-2005, 09:52 AM
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Mine does it also, ..., It's annoying as hell, ...
Old 10-25-2005, 10:12 AM
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Guess I'm lucky. Mine is a 99' & I weigh 200 lbs & haven't had any seat issues. I also daily drive mine.
Old 10-25-2005, 11:23 AM
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mine's a '94 so you can imagine the wear and tear my seats have had. Yes, my seat does this also...but i placed a strip of duct tape along where the foam ends...and that's held up for a year and a half now. You can't see the duct tape, and it's a pretty good "fix." But i am going to be replacing my stock leather T/A seats with some Corbeau GTS II's in leather sometime next summer....
Old 10-25-2005, 11:25 AM
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My 2000 Firehawk does it.Sucks.
Old 10-25-2005, 11:32 AM
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I have a sheder also.
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Yep, my hawk does this, too.

For those who aren't seeing it shed on the floormat, bend your seat forward as if you were going into the backseat. You'll see some in the bend when the chair is in that forward-position.

Mine's not bad, but it is happening.
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Heres a pic of the foam mess, its not that bad now cause I recently vaccumed, but it gets worse! It comes from a gap in the cloth under the plastic that I think is supposed to be there... but I dunno. I gotta try that duct tape idea though, maybe itll work for me!
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Learned something today. I have never seen that before, but reading all the post it sounds pretty common.
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This is my problem.
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Does this only happen to the leather seats?
I haven't noticed this with my cloth seats.
I'll have to double-check.



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