New front seat foam - experiences?

[Anders Dinsen]

As part of my restoration project, I've fitted a set of the new seat foams available on the market. The old ones were getting dusty and I thought it would be a good idea to update to new foam. I'm quite unhappy with the result, though.

While the thickness is identical to the original, the foam is much firmer, and in fact so high that I no longer feel that I fit in the seat. My head hits the roof and I need to recline the seat to a position, which is no longer comfortable. Also, because of the firmness, I do not feel that the sides give much support any more. It simply feels like I'm sitting on top of the seat, not in it.

Another issue, which is specific to the buttoned interior fabric I have, is that the original foam has an additional even softer layer on top which allows the grey button fabric to shape itself around the buttons. Without this additional softer layer, the fabric sits flat on the seat and it will never look good.

The foam is good quality, in fact, my sister is a chemist and used to work with memory foam production, and she said both the castings and the quality is good. I feel the problem is simply that they have chosen a far too firm type of foam for the Murena.

I'll be going back to the original foam, but I'm wondering what are other people's experiences with these remanufactured foams?

Attached picture shows the foam installed on my drivers seat.

[Grapes]

Thanks for sharing, that's exactly what I don't want if I refurbish my seats and the driver's seat definitely has seen better times. I was eying this foam but was also playing with the thought of cutting my own which is now probably going to be my choice.