Prodrive Seat Emblems!

The seats are all in good-nick and that deserves celebrating so I thought I'd spruce them up with some emblems to make them look like the embroidered Prodrive ones.

The emblems cost just £12 from eBay from a guy called Movi-Star - bargain. The grey Prodrive writing is made of a thick, rough suede-like felt and the blue strip is a very nice smooth alcantara type felt so they look and feel like they came on the seats, not like a cheap add-on and from outside the car of course, there's no way of telling them from an embroidered original ;)

The emblems are very easy to iron on, provided you have the right heat setting. They recommend you start on a very low heat and work up so you don't burn the seat, but the transfers won't stick at all unless the iron is pretty darn hot. It took me a good hour of working up the heat for fear of damaging the fabric, but these Subaru seats are tough stuff and in the end I had the iron almost on full heat to finally make the transfers stick, with no burning of the seats at all. Nicely nice!

[To look like the seats in the Prodrive Turbos that is, not the P1 style seats - I saw a pair of those beauties for £300 on eBay, but they're blue and have P1 embroidered, wouldn't suit. Besides, if you wanna talk whole new seats then its got to be Bride 'Holding Monster' all the way (http://www.brideseats.co.uk) - they are the Recaro of the JDM world, shame a pair costs a grand and up!!]