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QUOTE (Legen-dary @ Apr 29, 2013 - 11:54 AM)
>I received my covers last week and I'm in the middle of doing my front seats. It's definitely a bit more tricky of a job than I had imagined and dealing with those staples is a pain! My fingertips are hurting, lol.
Anyways, I have a couple of questions:
1. On the seat bottoms, the factory covers have some side flaps that wrap down around the frame and each flap had 2 staples in it. The new covers have the flaps but no plastic piece or fitting for a metal bar so basically there is no way to staple those back to the frame. Should there be anything else there?
2. On the seat back at the very bottom rear where the bar threads through, the factory cover has a dedicated fabric channel for the bar that is underneath the outer material. The new cover just has a channel directly in the end of the outer material. This works, but requires poking the staples through the outer material and it tears a bit around them. Just wondering if this is also normal or if there's another way I should be doing it.
I can take pictures if this is confusing..it's a little hard to describe. Thanks.
1. I drilled holes in the plastic and used tie-wraps to secure it to the underside of the seat
2. I know what you mean, you can't get around putting a couple holes there to get it all snug...just don't pull that part too tight and use a couple extra clips. Personally I just snipped all those stupid little hog rings and used tie-wraps, it saved me hours of intensive labour and it won't rip through as easily as the rings will
edit: Not cheap tie-wraps. I actually us the Ty-Wrap brand ones with the metal catch in them..
This post has been edited by schmooot: Apr 29, 2013 - 2:51 PM
They're just sore from tugging and pulling on the seat material to get everything into place. That said, the first seat is done and it looks really nice.