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MG TD TF 1500 - TF Seat Foam

Does anyone make the original style seat foam for a TF? When I rebuilt my seats, I used, what I thought, was a quality foam rubber for a replacement, but I believe it is loosing it's, so called quality as I am finding a dusting of rubber bits under the seats on the carpet! I need to redo the seat bottoms again with a better material. Any clues for w Winter project? PJ
PJ Jennings

Moss is showing the foam bottoms, but their showing the foam for the TC, TD and TF are the same and I think their different. Yes, No??
PJ Jennings

My son brought home a cube of yellow high density foam about 50 cm cubed. You can actually sit on it and it hardly depresses at all. It's uncovered and has been banging around the playroom area and it doesn't shed at all. Whatever it is it's really comfortable to sit on and would be perfect to infill the missing squares in the original seat or even just shape the block into two seat bases siting atop the ply base. I guess I'd use the hot wire approach to shape the foam. That's what I intend to do. Well within your skill level PJ. I'm sure you can do much better than Moss stuff... Cheers
Peter TD 5801
P Hehir

See this page on how I "restored" my originals and supplemented the missing foam with stuff that won't degrade.

https://www.mg-cars.org.uk/mgtd/mgtd_seat_padding.htm
Christopher Couper

Foam rubber is supplied in many quality grades. Dont know if "Clark Rubber" is available in the States, however if they exist they will communicate some good advice for your application.

A word of caution dont overstuff the seat back pillars you will create a situation where the seat backs will be difficult to tilt forward and rub on the hood brackets.

Graeme
G Evans

I had my TD seats done by a very good shop in San Diego. They said the original foam was better than they could get new and to stick with it.
J Barry

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