Hi all, not sure if this is a repost. Found a dealer on ebay dealing in Classic Soft Leather seat skins for 790ish dollars.
I am not affiliated in this, only interested in the purchase of black/blue leather seats. Thought I would post the link so you can all see if you are interested in aftermarket leather as well, and to see if anyone has experience with Classic Soft Leather.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...%3A1%3A1v_home

I have emailed them and will be recieveng the swatches to see if the blue matches closely to the winning blue of my 8.

 

Classic Soft Trim leather is nice - I have that in my car and am happy with it.

 

Did you do the install or did someone else? This purchase I mention is for the leather, and I dont need to send in the cloth, I keep it too, but I have to do the un-instll and re-install myself. Not sure how tough that would be.
By the way, how much did your leather cost you?

 

It was installed by a local Classic Soft Trim shop. Here is the old thread about it, with pictures and a lot of info.
To remove the cloth seats, you just have to undo the hooks the cloth is held on with. I think the leather is attached the same way (although to be honest, I never checked that and I don't have the car here right now to see). So I think installing the seat upholstery should be quite easy. Then there are the side panels - you need to glue those pieces on and have no idea how easy/complicated is to do that cleanly.
Oh, and i heard in the meantime, that the same shop refused to sell to a walk-in customer - so I guess I was just lucky that they did mine. It did help that I was referred to that shop by my Mazda salesperson and knew names to speak to.

 

Your seats look GREAT. I want the same in black/blue to be a bit unique in the 8 department. Im seriously debating this. Thanks for the info.

 

CST is good--I went with Katzkin though. If you are in the Houston area the CST shop is in NW Houston close to 290. I went via Katzkin leather by Texas Auto Trim by way of Jeff Haas Mazda.

 

I am about 1 hour from sugarland. Can I ask how much you paid for yours, and do you have pics? Also how long did they keep your car?

 

It took them like 2 days to do--I paid about $1300 including tax.
Here is a link to the original thread: https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...hlight=katzkin