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There are 4 bolts holding the legrest board on, they are T25 (torx) (If you have the extendable legrest, take the springs off so you can move the board back and forth and you'll see them). Take those bolts out and the whole board will come off the legrest arms. The upholstery is held on with staples around all the edges, pull those and the fabric will come off revealing the foam underneath. Supplement the foam with something from Jo-Ann fabrics or somewhere similar. You can afford to go a little crazy here because you won't need very much. Either add fill on top of the old foam or just replace the whole thing. Pick up a small bag of fiber filling (the stuff inside pillows) while you're there and use small amounts to fine-tune the amount of padding you need where the foam will not reach. Staple it back together and put the bolts back in. You can use a regular hand-held stapler as long as it's a decent one (the metal ones are best, but I've used a plastic Arrow stapler before in a pinch).

Mechanics, frame, and electronics are covered for lifetime but after a certain time they charge you for labor. When you say the footrest bracing, are you talking about the wooden board inside that you actually rest your feet on, or a mechanical piece?

Parts are often available online, the tricky part is knowing exactly what you're searching for, they have weird names for stuff. If you can send me a picture of the part I can either tell you off hand or look it up in a schematic. Videos might be available depending how common the issue is, but I might be able to help you there, too.

Definitely wouldn't recommend purchasing from them, or Ashley for that matter. They definitely don't make them like they used to. Macy's and JCPenny are decent as far as service goes. If they don't have the part they'll exchange the whole damn piece.

Black: Hardest to clean, shows literally all imperfections, heats up like crazy and must be cleaned and waxed miles away from the sun, looks the best when done right but gets dirty if you blink too hard near it.

White: Shows tons of dirt and no matter how hard you polish it it almost never gets shiny outside of rare colors that are extremely glossy.

My husband paints cars and we talk about the ones that are a pain in the ass to match.

Every painter I've talked to says white. There's 38429342 different shades and for whatever reason white pops like crazy when it's "wrong".

Windshields are the devil and are probably the hardest thing to clean perfectly in a car. First off I recommend using a nice ethanol-based cleaner as it will cut through grease well. Most of the aerosol foaming stuff you get in a can is ethanol based but look at the label to be sure, they usually specify. Don't use Windex or anything with ammonia.

Use terry towels or newspaper (yes this actually works) or anything except microfibers, they smear.

Give the outside a good go over with some 00 steel wool and lots of glass cleaner. This will pull off any residues, bugs, tar, or other coatings.

But if the car is old and is driven a lot the glass may simply be oxidizing. Wind and rocks and road grit take a toll after a while and there's only so much you can do.

I also suffer from yellowing/whitening of headlights.

Be careful with this. Make sure to ask them what their process is. If they don't specify that they add a UV coating after they are done, walk away. Your headlight will be yellow again in a month. You have to properly seal and protect the lenses after you sand the oxidation off or the problem will return. Don't ask them if they seal, because they'll just say yes. Ask for a rundown on their process.

What surprises you the most about your job?

Furniture: How much furniture is marked up, how all manufacturers build in pretty much the same way, just how shitty things are built even if you spend thousands of dollars, how entitled human beings can be, how many cats is "too many cats" ( I did in-home service).

Cars: How shitty factory paint jobs have become even on high end brands, how much a person can neglect something they spend so much time in, how disgusting children can be, how entitled humans are, just how much punishment some cars can take and still come out looking new, how many kids is "too many kids".

As for the scams, it's mostly just markup. You can spend $9000 on a power sofa set from La-Z-Boy and it still uses the same bullshit OSB frame that the $400 recliners use. Detailing can be a scam because people will assure you you need this $2000 ceramic coating on your Honda Civic or they simply have ridiculous labor prices. I've seen people charging upwards of $400+ for a detail on a sedan. That's criminal unless they're pulling off engine bolts and polishing them.