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OEM leather seats covers installed in my poverty pony (DIY)
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Started this little project this evening and managed to get the rear seats done in just over an hour. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to wait until next week to do the front seats seeing as how I can't find my bag of hog rings. The last time I had any use for them was about 8yrs ago though.
As for the rear seat backs, here are a couple of quick tips for anyone else that might be thinking about doing this upgrade.
First, when removing the seat backs, you only need to remove the 15mm nuts at the outside edge of the seat. One per side. Removing the bracket where both seat backs pivot at the center of the car is not necessary. They will slip right over the pivot pin and come out.
Second, it is much easier to remove, and reinstall, the foam for the seat back with the cover. Once you release the cover at the bottom of the seat back, you can pull the plastic seat base out of the cover. The cover is velcro'd to the foam, so the foam will stay inside the cover when pulling the base out. You can then remove the foam from the cover and install into the new one and it's a lot easier to get lined up properly this way. Once the foam is in place inside the new cover, simply slip the seat base back into the cover/foam assembly, reattach at the bottom, and pull the release cord through the cover.
Hindsight being what it is, I feel like this may have been the better way to do the bottom half of the rear seats as well, but I didn't figure it out until doing the second rear seat back.
As for the rear seat backs, here are a couple of quick tips for anyone else that might be thinking about doing this upgrade.
First, when removing the seat backs, you only need to remove the 15mm nuts at the outside edge of the seat. One per side. Removing the bracket where both seat backs pivot at the center of the car is not necessary. They will slip right over the pivot pin and come out.
Second, it is much easier to remove, and reinstall, the foam for the seat back with the cover. Once you release the cover at the bottom of the seat back, you can pull the plastic seat base out of the cover. The cover is velcro'd to the foam, so the foam will stay inside the cover when pulling the base out. You can then remove the foam from the cover and install into the new one and it's a lot easier to get lined up properly this way. Once the foam is in place inside the new cover, simply slip the seat base back into the cover/foam assembly, reattach at the bottom, and pull the release cord through the cover.
Hindsight being what it is, I feel like this may have been the better way to do the bottom half of the rear seats as well, but I didn't figure it out until doing the second rear seat back.
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