reupholstering seats
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From: Salem, Indiana
reupholstering seats my seats are starting to look bad because of normal wear, stains, etc... I was wondering if anyone knows how hard it is to reupholster them. i have a little experience w/ sewing but i just didnt wana ruin my seats if its gona be to hard. id like to see sum pics of what people have dun to their seats too for sum good ideas! thanx
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From: somewhere that doesn't get snow
do you have a trans am? it looks like thats what is in your avator although it looks like something out of CARS, lol.
anyway here's a few pics of the hawks hampton vinyl kit on my 95 T/A. the first 3 pics are from out of the car because the color inside the car is kind of off because of the flash
anyway here's a few pics of the hawks hampton vinyl kit on my 95 T/A. the first 3 pics are from out of the car because the color inside the car is kind of off because of the flash
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From: somewhere that doesn't get snow
I did the back seats myself including all of the hogringing of the lower sections, but i had the shop assemble the front seats because when i got the upholstery back installed on the seats none of the holes lined up and i didn't want to damage the seats trying to get everything together. I did disassemble the seats and remove the upholstery myself though. there are hogrings that hold the cover on the top of the front seats and the bottom of the rear seats but the upper rear seat simply slips off after you unclip it (although i did have to hog ring it back on because the new upholstery came with no clips, only plastic tubes with faboric around them which are meant for hogrings)
the lower front seats are just clipped/velcroed on and the upper front seats have hog rings in the horseshoe shaped area around the insert (if you look at your front seat the 2 verticle inserts on each side and the horizontal one above them are where the hog rings are. it kind of looks like a horse shoe or upside down u if your looking at it from the front)
Last edited by 1995blacktattop; Feb 9, 2009 at 08:19 PM.
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From: central TX
I used a leather kit from autoleathers.com (they are a katzkin reseller). Many, many pattern & color combos. I think you have to call for the f-body fitments anymore - they don't seem to list them on the website.
We installed it ourselves (minus the door panels). It was tough, but do-able. Turned out we could have done the door panels ourselves too. *shrug*
We installed it ourselves (minus the door panels). It was tough, but do-able. Turned out we could have done the door panels ourselves too. *shrug*
