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The Car Upholstery Experts
in Leicester

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Family Business Since 1968

Auto-Trim Systems is a family run business that has been trading for over half a century. We specialise in classic and modern car interiors, providing professional vehicle trimming, renovation and repair services. We also offer our services to motorbikes, yachts & boats, light aircrafts, Motorsport vehicles and more. If you're looking for a car upholstery expert, you are in the right place!


We operate across both the private and the trade sectors and have developed an excellent reputation. Our goal is to deliver a high quality, tailored service and professional finish, exceeding our customer's expectations every time.


We are passionate about growing our services and in recent years have been appointed the main RECARO agent & UK repair centre, alongside distributing a range of other industrial seats. In 2001, we launched our seating division Capital Seating to handle the supply of automotive seats across the UK and abroad.


Please see below for more information on the services we offer.


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Recaro seats in red leather upholstery with diamond stitching in Audi R8

Premier Custom Vehicle Interiors

Our skilled technicians provide a first-class service in reupholstering the interior of your classic or modern car to meet and exceed your expectations. We can offer a variety of designs for your seats, door cards, dashboards, steering wheels, headlining, carpets and more, to achieve the vehicle of your desires. 


We provide the full service from design and inception, right through to finish and aftersales support.

Car Hoods & Tonneau Covers

Our technicians can offer services for car hoods for convertibles and cabriolets, from small hole repairs to complete replacement hoods. Roofs can be designed and produced for new vehicle builds or custom restorations of classic vehicles.


We also offer bespoke tonneau covers for cars, trailers, trucks or anything else which requires a customised shelter.

Tailored vinyl tonneau cover hood for AC Cobra
Premium red leather automotive upholstery with customised panel designs

Premium Leathers & Fabrics

We offer a variety of leathers responsibly sourced from throughout the UK and Europe, to provide a range of finishes for your interior. Select from different grains and textures, plush and padded finishes, and customised perforations and stitch designs, all from a huge choice of colours.


In addition we offer other interior materials including high quality synthetic leathers, premium suede and other automotive fabrics including OEM options.

Repairs & Reconditioning

The workshop provides services for all seat repairs, including fixing minor marks in leathers and fabrics, foam repairs and replacements, all the way to new complete seat covers.


We can also recondition worn and tired leathers, carefully recolouring and rexturing them to look fresh and new again, ideally for your classic car restoration.

Repaired grey Alcantara fabric on Audi S3 seats
Customised black leather with blue pattern stitch on Recaro Sportster CS seats

Customised Seat Designs

The workshop can offer unique designs for your seat upholstery, to meet your exact requirements and reflect the personality of your car. Configurations such as diamond-stitching, perforations, multiple panel breaks, fluting, eyelets and much more.


Your individualise designs can be repeated throughout the vehicle to provide the complete bespoke finish.

Dashboards & Door Cards

Large surface areas throughout the vehicle can be trimmed to match the front and rear seats. The upholstery follows the complex contours of the dashboard, replacing the OE plastic-moulded finish with a luxurious leather or suede upholstery befitting of your new custom interior.


The door cards replicate the tailored seat designs to tie together the final interior finish.  

Bespoke black leather and beige diamond stitch design on a Bentley
American pick-up with customised brown leather steering wheel

Steering Wheels & Gaiters

It's the little details that gives your vehicle personality, and our upholstery services go the distance in getting every part covered. Steering wheels can be trimmed with distinct hand-stitching to offer you that elite driver experience, and the gear and brake gaitors can be replaced to match the rest of the car materials.


Other areas such as centre consoles, glove boxes, visors, armrest pads and more can be trimmed to match.

Carpets & Floor Mats

Newly upholstered interiors may no longer match the original vehicle carpet, so our services extend across the entire floor of the car - from the driver's footwell through to the boot lining. Carpets are various thickness and colour can be installed to compliment your seat upholstery.


In addition, our team can produce customised floor mats, tailored to the unique shape of each footwell. The mats can be finished with binded edges and embroidered logos.

Bespoke plush red carpet in a Reliant Scimitar
Red quilted leather headlining with diamond stitch

Headlining

In addition to the floor of the car, the roof of the car can also be changed to match your new interior. A variety of materials can be used for your new headlining including velour, suede or leather.


Customised stitching can also be integrated to offer a distinctive and grand finish.

Embroidery & Embossing

Add that truly personalised element with customised embroidered logo in your seats. Our design team can create logos of all shapes and sizes to be stitched directly into your leather, whether it be the car manufacturers logo, your company name, or your own personal graphic.


Or for a more subtle finish, we offer customised embossing tools to imprint your logo into the seat.

Recaro embossed logo on black leather Sportster CS seats

Hydrographic Printing

Customisation goes a step further with our access to hydrographic printing services, offering ultra-high quality finishes on plastic surfaces in your car. Patterns and colour choices are limitless, from authentic carbon-fibre textures to high-gloss vibrant colours, to compliment the material upholstery of the seats.


Hydrographic printing can be offered on any removable solid surface from the vehicle.

Seat Heating & Lumbar Supports

Improve the comfort of your driving experience with our range of seat heating kits. We can arrange supply and installation of OEM quality heaters that offer multiple heat settings.


Enhance ride comfort with our aftermarket lumbar kits to provide additional backrest adjustment, ideal if you suffer with back pain during long journeys. 

Seat heating and cooling switches on Recaro Ergomed seat
Motorbike seat upholstered in black leather with red diamond stitching

Motorbike Seats

Our trim services also extend to motorbikes and scooters, providing entirely customised seat cushions. With a range of high-quality waterproof materials and limitless stitch and colour designs available, you can give your bike a truly personalised touch.

Specialist Seat Modifications

Auto-Trim offer an extensive seat modification service, to alter the design of seats to meet specific requirements of the user. Adjustments including increasing foam density, augmented bolster support, anti-slip materials and more can be provided.


The service is ideal for clients with mobility limitations or whom suffer with chronic ailments whilst driving. 

Modified seat cushions for additional support

Auto-Trim Systems Mobile Services

We operate a mobile upholstery repairs service, bringing our expertise to your vehicle at home.
We can undertake minor repairs and fittings at a time and place that suits you.


 To book our mobile repair service, or to discuss your requirements, call our team today on 0116 216 9926.


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