Re: Upholstery and interior questions

Posted by BH On 2014/1/7 13:56:29

Vesiapina -

I can't help with interior pictures of an actual car, but I suspect that you verified the trim set number (82) from the VN plate on the driver's door hinge pillar of your 400.

If the cloth inserts on your seat covers are not just badly faded, then someone probably replaced them at some time in the past. It's impossible for me to say, however, whether that was a matter of personalization or due to the lack of suitable replacement in original color.

Meanwhile, the trim pad on the door interior finish molding should be the same color (and probably the same material) as the instrument panel trim pad - that is, blue, not green. I'm sure a factory mistake, there, would have been corrected by the original selling dealer prior to delivery. I'm more inclined to believe that someone replaced the original part with the only substitute they could find at the time. I wouldn't be surprised if Mike Dulinksi (of MN) had a used part that was a perfect match to original.