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Date:         Fri, 2 Feb 2001 16:31:16 +1200
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:      Re: Survey--Merkur seats
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>My brother's 1991 SHO has *badly* disintigrating leather seat covers at only >81,000 original miles. Cost to replace with OEM seat covers (front only, >parts only,no labor)..... $2642.00 !!!!!!! And that's wholesale, with a 30% >discount because i'm a volume customer. And, no, they're not comfortable. > My vote for most comfortable seats ever: the Acura NSX. I drove one for 2 >years, sometimes for 7 hours a day. Unquestionably the best seats i have sat >in - and i was a mechanic for 3 dealers for 6 years.

Honda NSX? Are you sure this is Acurate? Yes, Honda seats are generally very well-shaped, with big bolsters. other manufacturers take note. But.... what do NSX seats go for?? May be more than a new set of SHO seatcovers... or the whole car!

Andrew Grebneff 165 Evans St, Dunedin, New Zealand fax 64 (3) 479-7527 <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> VW van, Toyota diesel & mollusc nut Macintosh 7500/200/64, 6116/60/24


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