Re-Colour or Repair Your Upholstery at WECOLOUR
Re-Colour or Repair Your Upholstery at WECOLOUR
Great News for all car owners! If you have a hole in your upholstery, never fear. You can now go to the experts to get it fixed. At Wecolour, Mr. Lai Meng Hua, the proprietor will patch up holes of up to one inch across, and you will never know the difference.
Up to now, if your leather seats start to ‘crack-up and harden under the cruel rays of the sun, the standard practice was to go and get the whole seat re-upholstered. Most people would then get the whole bunch of seats done up again, because of the problem of mis-matched colours and materials. Besides, if one seat is damaged or cracked, there is a good chance that the other seats would follow suit, if they haven’t done so already.
At Wecolour, Mr. Lai uses processes, and equipment imported from the USA to treat leather, and uses special chemicals to soften the texture before re-colouring them carefully to match the other existing material in the car. He can even ‘age’ the repaired part so that it does not look out of place.
What this means to us as car users is that we can now patch small holes and tears, and need to do only the affected parts instead of a relatively more expensive re-upholstering job.
Situated in Subang Jaya, Wecolour recently gave a demonstration of their skills. A 15-year-old Celica was presented to Wecolour, with horribly faded, cracked, and damaged leather seats. One part of the driver’s seat was so severely damaged that even Mr. Lai had to admit that that that particular piece was beyond redemption. However, he said that his company would undertake to replace only that part, a small piece of about 50 square inches, and get to work restoring the rest of the seats.
After four days, he called, and we went to his shop to see his handiwork. Not only did the seats look good; the patch that he put in was exactly the same shade of colour as the rest of the leather seats that he had re-conditioned. In addition, he also cleaned up the door linings, the dashboard and the carpets. The overall effect was like the car had been given a new lease of life.
Wecolour, said Mr. Lai, specializes in car interior restoration. They can restore torn roof linings and even cracked and torn dashboards. In the Celica, as a bonus, he repaired a badly gashed plastic pad at the centre of the steering, making it look as good as new. According to Mr. Lai, there are many ‘pretenders’ in the market, using inferior materials, and said that there are even some who use putty and paint to do quick ‘cover-up’ jobs that don’t look as good, and certainly don’t last. “At Wecolour, we stand behind our job, and we give a guarantee for every job done,” he added.
Prices range from as low as fifty ringgit for small repair jobs to as high as a couple of thousand ringgit for a full job. It all depends on how many man-hours of work and the amount of material used. ‘No job is too small or too big for us,” he said.
