, Their car interior is one of the last areas that need to be repaired or rebuilt, if any. Why? From experience, we tend to spend our money first on performance or engine and suspension parts, and then as long as we have time and money, we can enter the car interior. In addition, if you use quality or

It is not easy to obtain these components for your specific brand and model, so making these components from scratch is difficult and requires specialized skills and experience.

For example: I have successfully pulled through the dent, made a wiring board, and painted a few cars, but I tried to repair the broken spring of my seat

Failed. Spring steel is basically impossible to weld, and many of the springs are broken. I ended up just replacing the entire seat with a newer model Chevrolet pickup. It doesn't match the rest of the interior, and even if I want to install a vintage-looking vinyl interior, it can't hide the shape of the 90s seat.

If you face a similar situation, you have several options. You can refurbish the stock seat frames and springs with replacement materials (several companies provide universal zigzag or "zigzag" spring lengths for this purpose), you can find old ones in better condition, or you can get them from the following companies Purchase a new seat TMI.

The advantage of buying from TMI compared to buying after-sale seats from companies such as Recaro or Sparco is that through TMI, you can also get matching components such as door panels, consoles and canopies. If you like that kind of thing, it will provide a more complete package.

TMI is a family business consisting of four brothers: John, Steve, Robert and Gene Tuccinardi. From their parents' garage in Torrance, California, their first products were air-cooled Volkswagens. By the late 1980s, they began to focus on American muscle cars and sold part of Volkswagen’s JBugs business. In 1994, they moved to a larger factory in Corona, California, and then again in 2001 to a larger building, also in Corona. They are still a family business, and they still produce their products in-house.

Ross Berlanga, Marketing Director of TMI, showed us around the facility, which is an impressive place. They make their own seat frames, seat foams, door panels, canopies, and even molded fiberglass backings for canopies, door panels, and interior parts. Some of their inventory may have enough carpet to measure in square miles.

TMI seat backs and bottoms are produced in-house using a proprietary foam mixture, which is poured into molds such as waffle irons in our favorite 24/7 roadside food store waffle shops. The liquid enters the mold, and a few minutes later, after the foam is formed, the seat back or bottom is extracted. It looks interesting.

Ross Berlanga tells us that compared to cut foam, their special seat foam formula makes the seat stronger, more durable and more comfortable. We have taken a few TMI demonstration seats and can confirm that they are a good place to park your body on a long road trip.

TMI's seats are considered universal, but they offer benches and bucket seats in several different sizes and widths. Custom brackets can be used in many popular muscle cars, and universal brackets are suitable for many other applications. The rest of TMI's product line is directly installed. After choosing your seat, you can choose matching door panels, carpets and canopies for many popular applications. Each product is built after the order is placed, and customization options are provided. TMI offers a variety of colors to highlight your appearance, the seat pattern includes two-tone and even suede inserts, and you can even get contrast stitching for a higher level of customization. Each product is customized, fully customizable, and can be matched with each product you buy to create a more complete interior.

"We provide stronger and more comfortable options, which can be installed after delivery. We ship complete internal components, which we call "in-box interiors", so you can transform your Interior," Berlanga said. If you are ready to upgrade and customize the interior of your car, please visit

See how many ways you can configure the room.

Back at the 2017 SEMA show, TMI Products introduced its Mopar-specific interior product line to the industry through this 340-powered 1973 Plymouth Dust Collector street machine.

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