I started restoring my wifes 2003 mercury grand marquis recently, trying to get it looking more like it did when we purchased it, it runs decent but its showing the miles in interior wear.
this started because its got over 150K miles and several features no longer work correctly, the radio, CD player won,t always return a CD, so that needs to be looked at, I already rebuilt the head light controller that was defective, they wanted $900 for that from the dealership, I replaced a $4 relay and repaired that.
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I priced new seats and seat belts at the dealership just as a start point, the dealers parts guys have prices that are truly insane, try $800 for two new front seat belts and $4000 plus for two new front seats!
so obviously I need to recover and rebuild the the cars current seats and get new generic or salvage yard seat belts that are in decent shape.
its not the webbing thats defective on the seat belts its the locking mechanism and its electric sensor, and its re-tractor, all are functioning intermittently and all have been cleaned and inspected.
they need replacement.
I priced having the seats recovered, and got quotes from $800-$1400 so it looks like IM looking for good seats in a salvage yard , or Im in for a seat rebuild, Ive done seat rebuilds on a couple corvettes so I know its not all that difficult just time consuming
this started because its got over 150K miles and several features no longer work correctly, the radio, CD player won,t always return a CD, so that needs to be looked at, I already rebuilt the head light controller that was defective, they wanted $900 for that from the dealership, I replaced a $4 relay and repaired that.
viewtopic.php?f=87&t=4687&p=21852&hilit=mercury+relay#p21852
I priced new seats and seat belts at the dealership just as a start point, the dealers parts guys have prices that are truly insane, try $800 for two new front seat belts and $4000 plus for two new front seats!
so obviously I need to recover and rebuild the the cars current seats and get new generic or salvage yard seat belts that are in decent shape.
its not the webbing thats defective on the seat belts its the locking mechanism and its electric sensor, and its re-tractor, all are functioning intermittently and all have been cleaned and inspected.
they need replacement.
I priced having the seats recovered, and got quotes from $800-$1400 so it looks like IM looking for good seats in a salvage yard , or Im in for a seat rebuild, Ive done seat rebuilds on a couple corvettes so I know its not all that difficult just time consuming