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Vincent has been kind enough to share a new gift with us. One of the newest being his new seat covers. I opted for Blue stitching and hopefully you can see that in the pictures (sorry they were taken quickly and aren't the greatest). I'll be taking much more detailed pics of how to take apart the old seats and replace the old upholstery with the new! Being that I didn't really have a clue what I was doing with the first seat I just went at it and didn't take any pictures of the dismantle or anything of the sort.. And I'm sure the drivers seat is the most PITA. On the the pics







I'll edit this over the next few days and post new pics and hopefully get a how to done on this!

BTW Great work on stitching. I was worried before I actually had these in my possession about durability but now that I've sat in them and witnessed them, these are DEFINITELY worth the money, Great looking upgrade to the interior!

Update:
Tools used:
Needle Nose pliers
Utility Knife
12mm Ratchet
10mm or 9mm Ratchet

NOTE: DO NOT JUST YANK ON THE STAPLES! There are 2 metal bars that you use to secure the seat covers down. 1 set is inside the seat covers, you will remove and put in the new ones, the other set is INSIDE the foam of your seats, if you just yank on the staples you WILL pull that metal bar out and you WON'T have anything to hold you seat covers down all nice and snug!

Now for actually getting it done:

First things first take the seats out of your car, I believe it took a 12mm wrench
After the seats are out on the bottom of the seats there are 4 screws that need to be removed to take apart the cushion that you would sit on. Makes it a bit easier. The drivers side is a PITA do to the spin knob on the side to adjust how the seat sits. Unless you don't have one then it makes things easier:




Once you have the seats apart time to pull out the pliers.. I used 2 sets, 1 pair to hold one side of the staple and another set to pull it apart.













Once the metal brackets are out and the rubber sleeves you will put them into the new seat covers, and the staples need to go through the fabric loop around both bars and then pinched tight:








Now that that is done you end up with this:











I did use a heat gun once it was all done to help smooth out the material some. But you can prolly use a blow dryer or something along those lines, blow dryer would prolly be better but prolly take a little longer than the heat gun.

If you have any questions about this feel free to PM me. I'm hear to help.

B.

This post has been edited by bseaman_5: Apr 11, 2009 - 12:08 AM

Wow..That looks really really good!

So Vince is going to make a GB on these?

That looks absolutely amazing. What is the material?

And did you do the rears as well or just the fronts?

This post has been edited by GriffGirl: Apr 3, 2009 - 4:32 PM

Blue: Yeah Vince will soon have these available from the talks that he and I have had!

Griff: I'm not sure the exact material, it's not a real leather cuz the weight of real leather would end up costing a TON for shipment do to the weight factor.. They are however from what I have seen and felt seem to me to be very durable. I mean of course if you stuck a knife to it, it will tear but they should last for a long time. VERY AFFORDABLE BTW. And its the entire set!!! Front driver and passenger and rears!

Like I said above my plan is to get the rest of the seats done in the next few days and I'll make sure to have lots of pics.

This post has been edited by bseaman_5: Apr 4, 2009 - 10:13 AM

love them...can't wait for the,

nice....any idea on a price for fronts and backs?

It will come as a full set unless vincent decides to split em up, and they should be available for the coupes eventually too I THINK. I'll talk to him and find out for sure and update at the top tomorrow hopefully

being that the 94-95 and the 96-99 seats are different, are these interchangable between the 2 ?

Bat, u are right, JDM have same issue too, JDM 94-95 the rear seat have a wooden piece or cardboard like thing, 96+ don't have that.

SO, the supplier would provide a Black cloth to cover that spot for 96+

If Bseaman could install without issue, thats mean no issue between LHD and RHD

Then I would ask for consent for a GB for this

Oh my, what dirty tease
I'm going to keep my eye on this, it would finish my interior theme nicely with red stitching...

Damn, Vincent must be psychic, I was just looking at the gearshift boot covers he does the other week, and thought 'I wish he did seat covers...'

This post has been edited by korban: Apr 4, 2009 - 4:50 PM

Looks nice, but my only gripe is that the upper bolster stitching doesn't line up with the side bolster stitching.

Go check out your seats, might be those are patterns, but not confirm thou

This post has been edited by vincent_doggy: Apr 6, 2009 - 12:44 AM

this is mine .... from Vinc 's product....







thank you ... Vinc

omg i want these naow, robby's interior looks so hot

DAMN those red stitch seats l@@k's awesome!!!


VINCE: ANy idea of a possibel price yet??

thank you

these would look nice for the Street Car show off Car show production in process???

This post has been edited by 808celica: Apr 7, 2009 - 4:16 AM

hehe....... I thinks my car is Project Car for Vinc......

I will charge Vinc later.......

also totally interested in these cant wait on a status