355 Ferrari F355 Carbon Seats – OEM-Accurate Reproductions by CarbonSeats.com

And you really think it can't be faked?

Scamers have no problem to fake items and "aged" them.
They can fool you.

I think an embossed logo on the base of the seat is something you can't remove without leaving a mark.

 

They might be able to fool you, but they can’t fool me.


The tag is on the inside of the resin.

 

And scammers aren’t gonna buy Reza’s seat and try to pass it off as real lol.

 

Just placed my order!

 

@Targatime , which color did you choose ?

 

Black. I would love a Bordeaux interior and thought hard over the last few days about ordering them in that color and then converting my interior over, but I'll never have time to do it and I should probably just keep the interior the original color.

 

Maybe... Maybe not...
So many specialists have been abused by forgers in many cases ( art, antique, you name it).

Well that was just an idea to get an easy way of telling from originals or copies for every body, not only specialists eyes.
Personnaly, I don't care: I'm lucky enough to not be fond of those seats

 

What about the center insert?

 

One thing to note:

Original TIR seats are made using a traditional wet carbon lay-up technique. No vacuum bagging process involved. You can see human craft in the carbon layout. It is not perfect.

Reza will build these using an autoclave carbon process, which is the technique used in modern Ferraris. Lighter, stronger, cleaner carbon layout. Carbon will have a “pressed” look. Will look like it is made by a robot, not human craft which has small errors.


If someone is unsure seats are genuine or not, run it by me . I’ve had these seats separated and analyzed.

 

I am currently in the process of inventing a time machine so that Reza can go back to 1997 and get an Italian guy who drank half a bottle of Cabernet at lunch to rub his hands all over the leather of the seats he's making so that they're really truly authentic and period correct

The same man will then locate prancing horse badges on fenders just by eyeballing them.

 

Let's see some prototypes before we start talking about how indistinguishable these are from original. Even re-trimmed original seats are almost always easy to tell apart from OEM fitment.

 

Thank you for extending the intro offer. I've ordered a set:

Ferrari F355 carbon seat – Alcantara and leather × 1

• Leather color:
  
  Beige 4208
  
  
• Ears & mid alcantara:
  Beige
  
  
• Stitching:
  Tone-on-tone
  
  
• Order notes:
  ZFFXR41A0W0111466
  

 

Sure they will, just like we are seeing lies about converted cars trying to be sold as factory originals. There are alot of guys out there with money, but no common sense or knowledge.

 

They can try, but after one failed attempt it will probably get shut down.

What ends up happening is a scammer will post a for sale ad in known venues where Ferrari/355 parts are sold. There will be oohs and ahs and word will spread. The ad will be scrutinized and even more so if buyers now know reproductions exist. I’ll probably be made aware of the ad and I know what questions to ask to confirm originality.


Don’t confuse attempt with success.


Who sold or is selling a converted car as original successfully?

 

The concern is a scammer will buy these and try to sell them on the market as real presumably at a higher price. I’d like to see someone actually pull that off.


Or include it in a car and pass off as real. As already mentioned in this thread, there are ways to identify authenticity. There’s also ways to validate how the car came spec’d from the factory.

If a buyer is completely clueless, no marking is going to help him because if he actually cared, he’d ask the right questions. At most, he’d pay what the reproduction seats cost.

 

The embossed horse on the repros is actually too good. This is how it looks on original seats
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I haven't seen anyone try to sell a conversion as a factory manual 355. Can someone substantiate this?

 

TIR also didn’t emboss them correctly. 9 out of 10 times there is bubbling around the Cavallino.

 

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My Cavalino, a bit tired, 30 years old, with good care, he seems to be great, but I avoid to see it when I drive, he's sulking, but that's how it is lol
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