Question from Diana
Hi Debra,
Can you share how you re-upholstered a car to make it non toxic? Thanks!
Debra’s Answer
Many years ago I re-uphostered the bucket seats on my Fiat X-1/9 to remove the vinyl seat covers. That’s all I did.
I just took the car to an auto upholsterer, asked how many yards of fabric to get, then went and bought that amount of cotton canvas and prewashed it. They did a great job.
If I had wanted to, they could have replaced all the vinyl in the doors and I could have swapped out the carpet, but it was enough for me to replace the seat covers.
But I have another article for you about creating a toxic free car from an old 1986 issue of my newsletter. A reader submitted this very complete article about how to create “The All-Cotton Car..”
I scanned it for you and made a pdf: The All-Cotton Car
This was really helpful, thanks for sharing Debra! Of all the advances car companies come up with, I can’t believe they still haven’t made any efforts to decrease the indoor air pollution of their cars.