rebuilding seats...which pad?

[Curt D]

Wolfsburg offers the horsehair pads...Mid America offers foam rubber pads.  Is there any advantages to the foam rubber or should I stick to the horsehair pad. 

[martin]

I prefer the hair, the foam is too spongy to look real in a bug.

[bendig]

I agree with the horsehair. Got cars with both types of padding. My wife says the seats with the foam padding feels like she is going to roll off the seat. To me the seats don't look right with the foam. Watched a friend use foam from Empi yesterday and had to cut and trim it to fit. The horsehair from Wolfsburg West fits out of the box. If you use seat covers, depending on who makes them, some 1/4" foam may be required to tailor the fit.

[sweet67]

I rebuilt all the seats in my 67 with Wolfsburg West horsehair.  The seats feel firm and the shape looks OEM.  My 65 d/driver has the foam seat pads.  The foam pads came form West Coast Metric.  Good chance they're the same foam pads sold by Mid America, since Mid America carries West Coast Metric products.  The seats with the foam look like their bulging and feel spongy.  They also feel like your sitting on top of the seat, due to the bulging, rather then in the seat.  No question, go with the horsehair.

[Zach Gomulka]

The old horsehair made such a mess in my GTV! Im going to reuse what is left of it, but also add a little more skrim foam and jute padding to bolster up the sides for a little more lateral support, and the front of the cushion so I sit "down" in the seat a little more. Im using stock covers I ordered from BFY (should have been in days ago! )

[martin]

What the upholstery shop did was to cover the springs with a fabric that they had before covering with the horsehair pad. that way the horsehair wouldn't be chewed up by the springs, and even if it were, it couldn't get past the fabric and fall on the floor.

[Zach Gomulka]

What the upholstery shop did was to cover the springs with a fabric...

Probably jute padding, its pretty common and cheap too.

[martin]

Looked like someones pants from 70's, haha

[Curt D]

I agree with the horsehair. Got cars with both types of padding. My wife says the seats with the foam padding feels like she is going to roll off the seat.

That was the problem I felt with the seats that were previously done in the bug I bought. Also, there was no paperboard backing and 3 layers of carpet padding under the seat foam on the bottom...haha.

I am definetly going to go horsehair though
            Thanks!