Our New 2500S Estate

[Dyna]

Hi

New to the forum and to owning a big Triumph and thought of writing a small intro. Some of you know us a bit. Well we had the big pleasure of meeting Lee (EnglishBull) and his friend Michael Saturday as we bought a sun roof and bumpers for our big Triumph that we were on our way to buy that very same day. It was a a major road trip going all the way up to Leeds down over Blackburn picking up Triumph parts before landing Stoke-on-Trentish as a very last stop where we bought our 2500S Estate before heading home to South London.

I wish our Estate was as nice as Lee's PI but it aint . Hubby was very pleased with although. He is the one dealing with all the mechanical and body bits and this car is 110% solid with no rust at all according to him. There is on the other hand more than enough work cleaning and fixing the interior. It's if you are modest very dirty, hence why I wished ours was as clean as Lee's . So I know the two of us have our work cut out.

The car is currently white but was originally British Racing Green (75) and it has a beige C74 interior. BIG WANTED if anyone has a set of front seats (or a whole interior saloon or estate) in half decent condition we would be so happy. As long as the seats are not ripped any condition will be considered, I'm pretty good cleaning and fixing interiors. There is no rips in our interior but they are very frail due to normal ware over many miles so there is little I can do beside reupholster. Ah front door caps that are repairable are also on the wanted list (busted lacquer ok as long as veneer is ok). I'm pretty sure that by the end of the week hubby has a long list of bits we need ..

Anyways here are two pictures of the car..





Cheers Dyna

PS: Wish the car was green and not white I would so love to have it dark green since green is one of my fav colors. Well if we do keep it for a long time I think it will be repainted as some stage..

[TedTaylor]

I can probably sort out some brown or new tan (a sort of mid brown) seats that are variously for saloon or estate. I am actually intending to change to the light tan you have or maybe black for the estate when I get round to sorting it out.

I will need to check what I have and what condition they are in - one set have been soaked but have dried out and the other sat in a car while the rest rotted away ........: but I think the covers (and possibly the rubber diaphragms) are ok because the cars had only done either 30,000 or 45,000 miles.

Note that rear seats in saloon and estate are different

If any good and better than yours you will have to collect, and I would like a small donation towards buying my replacements seats.

Ted

[Dyna]

I can probably sort out some brown or new tan (a sort of mid brown) seats that are variously for saloon or estate. I am actually intending to change to the light tan you have or maybe black for the estate when I get round to sorting it out.
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If any good and better than yours you will have to collect, and I would like a small donation towards buying my replacements seats.

Ted

Thanks Ted, please do let us know the condition. It's a last resort since it's clearly better than nothing but proper beige seats would be nice unless someone has a complete nice estate interior.

I'm aware that the back seat is different between the estate and saloon but the fabric of the rear saloon seat can possibly be used to repair the front seats and even possibly at least partially repair the rear seat of the estate. Its after all only the fabric and not the vinyl that is worn. I'm even looking at the dolomite that has the same time fabric, possibly the dolomite rear seat fabric can be used to repair the front seats. I'm pretty sure the front dolomite seats are one size smaller that the 2500 seats and therefore can't be used, but I will double check that.

Cheers Dyna

[CAR]

Dolomite seats are smaller and no good as direct replacements, also be aware that some bri-nylon seats have slightly narrower flutes (and therefore more in no.) in the material than others. I spent a lot of time at Triumphland looking at old seats trying to do just what you are suggesting.

Colin.

[Mike Stevens]

Welcome and congratulations on the new purchase!

I have had 2 'S' estates in the past and although the 2nd one (auto) wasn't my favourite, the first one (MoD) was probably the best Triumph we've ever had. Sadly, it was scrapped but a lot of its bits still live on in other cars.

Interior trim, seats especially, are getting difficult to source. There was some talk last year about getting new seat covers made, but I don't think there was enough interest to make it viable for the suppliers. I had what I thought was a set of OEM front seat covers, but on fitting them the seat part at least is a bit too small and I suspect from a Dolomite. It has fitted and I do have a usable seat though. Good diaphrams are a bit like hen's teeth, but a very good alternative is to use Perilli webbing. The information on how to do this is on the website here somewhere.

Good luck and I hope you enjoy the car!

Cheers,
Mike.

[Dyna]

Dolomite seats are smaller and no good as direct replacements, also be aware that some bri-nylon seats have slightly narrower flutes (and therefore more in no.) in the material than others. I spent a lot of time at Triumphland looking at old seats trying to do just what you are suggesting.

Colin.

Thanks for the info Colin saves me some trouble.. Guess I need to look 2500 seats then....

Cheers Dyna

[Dyna]

Welcome and congratulations on the new purchase!
I have had 2 'S' estates in the past and although the 2nd one (auto) wasn't my favourite, the first one (MoD) was probably the best Triumph we've ever had. Sadly, it was scrapped but a lot of its bits still live on in other cars.

Thanks Mike, our Estate is a auto but hubby will switch to MoD ASAP, we have all the bits (pedals, driveshaft, etc) one things is not right although and that is that it's a Atype, should be a J-type in ours according to Hubby. I don't know if that has a major impact although. We got the setup with the car.

Interior trim, seats especially, are getting difficult to source. There was some talk last year about getting new seat covers made, but I don't think there was enough interest to make it viable for the suppliers. I had what I thought was a set of OEM front seat covers, but on fitting them the seat part at least is a bit too small and I suspect from a Dolomite. It has fitted and I do have a usable seat though. Good diaphrams are a bit like hen's teeth, but a very good alternative is to use Perilli webbing. The information on how to do this is on the website here somewhere.

Sorry Mike don't get it, do you mean you have two beige seats that you can sell? I'm not to worried about the diaphrams, there is as you say alternative ways.

Sincerely Dyna

[Mike Stevens]

Sorry Mike don't get it, do you mean you have two beige seats that you can sell?

Probably not, and certainly not as good as the ones you already have!

The OEM covers I have were black and I used them to replace the black covers actually from our original 'S' estate.

There are a lot of alternative seats that will fit - with some some bracketry fabrication. If you're not too worried about originality, this may be a way forward. Colin has some from a Rover (600 range I think it was?) and they look good and are comfortable. That's the way I want to go when I get time and can find some decent black ones. I believe some XJS (or may XJ-S) seats also fit.

Cheers,
Mike.

[Dyna]

Sorry Mike don't get it, do you mean you have two beige seats that you can sell?

There are a lot of alternative seats that will fit - with some some bracketry fabrication. If you're not too worried about originality, this may be a way forward. Colin has some from a Rover (600 range I think it was?) and they look good and are comfortable. That's the way I want to go when I get time and can find some decent black ones. I believe some XJS (or may XJ-S) seats also fit.

Cheers,
Mike.

We kind of want to keep the original look. I'm currently looking for fabric that can be used to repair the seats (i.e. just repair the seating area and not the side vinyl). If I don't find something that is a very good match I think I go with a original seat but say brown instead of beige if I got hold of that, an other alternative I've been thinking of is to mount two dolomite seats since that would look the same..

Cheers Dyna

[firstmk1]

hi,
have you seen these on ebay?

item number 270938361814.

steve.