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bloke
16-03-03, 10:21 PM
how hard is it to cover seats? i dont want seat covers i want to re-cover the seats in a diffrent meterial. any tips?
mikeoxford
16-03-03, 10:27 PM
PM a guy called ADE

he has hundreds of photos and will help you out no end
Freak
17-03-03, 05:43 PM
like mine then?

http://www.novaload.net/images/car_images/72big.jpg

Its Very hard........and takes ages.

I didnt bother with any photos of mine- it was enuff hassle doing it.
mikeoxford
17-03-03, 10:28 PM
ive had the cover off my lower seats to fit heated seat pads... that was about 1-2 hours work, and i found it dead easy, just a bit fiddly thats all if you got big hands & long fingers.

as for machining a new cover etc, i bet it well takes time and is very hard, if the cover is slightly the wrong size it will show, too big itll be sloppy, too tight u just wont get it on.......
whitey
17-03-03, 11:31 PM
slightly the wrong size it will show.......... too tight u just wont get it on.......

You DONT get these problems then Mike! LOL :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
mikeoxford
18-03-03, 09:44 AM
:? :oops:

i may not have woken up yet, but i dont get it :oops:
whitey
18-03-03, 01:10 PM
LOL!

Too tight as in condom! You dont get this prob so u have a small one!

Forget it now!
mikeoxford
18-03-03, 02:00 PM
oooooooohhh

lol im awake now

also im home, and not walking round like a zombie which i do in college as its so sh!te

:lol:

fair play
mikeoxford
18-03-03, 02:00 PM
and no it werent funny :lol: :roll:
whitey
18-03-03, 05:09 PM
YOU DID THAT DOUBLE POSTING THING AGAIN!
novaexplod
18-03-03, 05:23 PM
wot i did in my corsa was bought a set of those black with big blue stripe seat covers and staple gunned the back seat cover to the actual seat along the back and under neath n it holds fine and tight, n ive got cobra clubmans, blue and black, works a treat :D no nonesense lol 8)
mikeoxford
18-03-03, 10:55 PM
YOU DID THAT DOUBLE POSTING THING AGAIN!

so shoot me
mikeoxford
18-03-03, 10:55 PM
:snipersm: :2gunfire:


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
ade
18-03-03, 11:14 PM
Like Freak I recovered my seats (my mum sewed them together) - thats actually the easy part - dismantling and reassembling them is the hard bit.

Its more fiddley than hard.

Theres lots on metal rods and little metal ring clips that have to be cut away.

I replaced these with plastic mini hose ties worked really well.

I actually saw a ring making device for seats on ebay ages ago!

Wish I bought it now
:roll:

If you want a copy of all the pics I took of my seat recovering escapades,send me a CD and I'll bung them all on for ya. PM me for address

Ade
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