New mustard vinyl

mike202 · Feb 15, 2020

My latest project is to replace all the 50 year old foam and vinyl on the westy seats in the back of the bus. I bought the early bay set of covers from NLA VW and it arrived a couple of days ago. The pattern is very good and it looks just like the OG vinyl and seems good quality. Unfortunately whoever packed it in the box to send has folded the pieces of vinyl up and now there are small cracks or fissures in the vinyl where it was folded in on itself.

I am seeking advice from NLA about this, but the more I think about it I cannot see these marks disappearing ever! Has anyone bought any cover from them and did you have this problem? Some pics to illustrate. Ive used the postimage link for this on my laptop.

sparkywig · Feb 15, 2020

The only way I've cured this is by steaming, but it may not get rid of all of it.
It's caused by poor storage, folded and something heavy put on top.

mike202 · Feb 15, 2020

sparkywig said:
The only way I've cured this is by steaming, but it may not get rid of all of it.
It's caused by poor storage, folded and something heavy put on top.

Yes I thought that as well. Been squashed a bit too long.

Graham L · Feb 21, 2020

I saw your post on FB and I also think thats the wrong colour for an original westy, much more mustard than that.

These covers come from China so will have set in a container folded up for weeks hence the crease marks

mike202 · Feb 21, 2020

Graham L said:
I saw your post on FB and I also think thats the wrong colour for an original westy, much more mustard than that.

These covers come from China so will have set in a container folded up for weeks hence the crease marks

To be fair it’s a good match colour and pattern wise. It is a shade darker than my OG vinyl but I put that down to mine fading over the years, maybe that’s wrong.
I assumed, perhaps naively, that they were made in GB. I have spoken to NLA VW about the creases and was told they would disappear in a couple of weeks. So I will wait and see !