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Re: If you have an ED30 with an armrest...
« Reply #15 on: September 26, 2012, 07:44:48 pm »
Lads Eddie-NL has one for sale  :happy2:

http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,53909.0.html

Don't think its leather though as his car has cloth gti seats  :happy2:

it is cloth

No factory car had red stitching on the armrest (although mk6 cloth gti did have it on the armrest)
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Re: If you have an ED30 with an armrest...
« Reply #16 on: September 26, 2012, 09:01:30 pm »
Lads Eddie-NL has one for sale  :happy2:

http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,53909.0.html

Don't think its leather though as his car has cloth gti seats  :happy2:

My bad, didn't realise Ed30's have leather armrest  :ashamed:

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Re: If you have an ED30 with an armrest...
« Reply #17 on: September 26, 2012, 09:20:24 pm »

The seats don't have red stitching on the very outer parts either.

I noticed this too when i went to see how easy it would be to take the armrest cover off. Perhaps their is a premium on the red thread??

Getting mine done in red soon, as the stitching is coming out.

How much is this costing if you dont mind me asking?

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Re: If you have an ED30 with an armrest...
« Reply #18 on: September 27, 2012, 10:55:08 pm »
when i first noticed, i immediately assumed that the previous owner may have swapped a red stiched one for a normal one as surely VW would have supplied it with red stitching -theres red stitching everywhere else FFS!



MUM....MUM....  :mad: Where's the sewing machine!?

That has got me thinking.... from the point of view of a leather trimmer / upholster, how difficult would the job be to replace the grey stitching with red stitching? Saying that, how difficult is it to remove the leather trim / cover from the arm rest lid???


removal of the armrest lids is easy. early types (pre 09 i believe) you just lift up the armrest, pull off the plastic undertray and the unclip the lid. Newer ones when you take off the plastic undertray you just undo the 2 torx screws and then push the lid downwards to disengage it from the 4 hooks it locks in to.  :happy2:
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