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MG MGA - Heritage Upholstery

Has any one had problems with Heritage Upholtery? I received a complete interior kit that a customer had ordered and it was missing the rubberized horsehair seat back padding. After a number of calls and emails I finally got a call back. They basically told me that I didn't know what I was doing and should send the seats to them to be upholstered! I cannot convince them of the missing parts.
mgdoc

I wasn't aware that any interior kits came with the horsehair padding. The one I got from Moss didn't have any. I found some at a local upholstery fabric outlet.
Jeff Schultz

Jeff, The horsehair padding that I refer to is not actually horsehair. In the Moss parts book, they refer to it as "rubberized horsehair". To me, it looks more like dark brown Shreaded Wheat cereal.
mgdoc

That is the stuff I am talking about. I don't know if it is actually horse hair, but the stuff I found is a rubberized fiber pad. It looked like this except it was grey. http://www.perfectproductsonline.com/rubberizedhair.html
It wasn't thick enough, so I glued several layers together and it worked out fine. I don't know if this is available at most upholstery shops, or if I just got lucky at the outlet.

But anyway, nothing like this was included in my Moss interior kit when I got it 6 years ago. I don't even know if they had it in their catalog back then.
Jeff Schultz

I think they treat that as a diffrent component and it must be ordered as a specific item. Most interior kits do not include the "guts" needed to actually rebuild the seat.

J Delk

This thread was discussed between 26/06/2007 and 27/06/2007

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