Getting ready to recover my ash wells on my 1970 Cutlass Supreme. I have the vinyl but what does everyone use for the padding behind it?

 

What are you calling an "ash well" ?

 

Rear armrests where the ashtray goes. Whenever I ordered covers that's what they were called.

 

Thank you, I had never heard that term used before.

 

Not an expert, but in convertibles I thought the interior lower rear quarter covers were called “piston covers”.

I always took this to mean they covered the top-raising hydraulic pistons.

Which, FYI, pivot when they put the top up.

So, if you put 6X9 speakers back there, be ready to replace them now & again as the pivoting piston interferes with the speaker magnet.

If you’re lucky the speaker will go. If not the speaker rear corner will cut a slice into the hydraulic piston and make a $400 mess…..

Hasn’t happened to me yet, but I’m waiting…..

Cheers
Chris

 

I bought the padding kit from Legendary form my '72 442 convertible and it worked well. I had a difficult time finding it on their website so I just called them and told them what I needed.
Rodney

 

I did this work a couple months ago. I found that the factory padding beneath all parts was still in pretty good shape. My PUI parts also had a layer of foam padding on them, just behind the vinyl.

You may or may not find this thread worth reviewing. Perhaps I should have put it here?

https://classicoldsmobile.com/forums...s-vert-183583/