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leather seat cover replacement

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nickgardner

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anyone any experience of replacing the original leather seat covers? mine are black and fit on the hardback sports seat and are definitely tired especially drivers side. Its also stretched a bit so has an irritating habit of the rubbery tooth arrangement which fixes it round the perimeter of the seat back coming out. its this which is making me think replacement as opposed to renovation might be desirable. any advice greatly appreciated
 
Nick,

Southbound are probably the trimmers that people mention the most. I've had panels and seat heating kits from them, all of which have been excellent quality. http://www.southboundtrimmers.com/

It's been quite a while, but I've also used J Mussell & Son in Godalming to restore some very, very tired and dirty 944 eBay bargain seats that came back looking factory fresh. They also did a good job on a gentle restore and redye on my 993 seats. http://www.surreycarinteriors.co.uk/

No connection to either - just a satisfied customer.

Cheers/John
 
You should be able to get the leather to fit back on the seats easily enough, feed it and it will soften up, then those clips will stay in place. Unless the leather is through to the bone a re-paint should work wonders.
 
The rubbery tooth arrangement should clip into metal "U" shaped clips that are virtually fixed inside the plastic surround that you are inserting the rubbery teeth into. If they are not there, then the leather will not be tight and the rubbery teeth will keep unclipping. There should be I think four each side about a foot apart and either side of the wings(i.e.curves).
 
belated thanks for above replies - very useful especially as to the u clips - i think I may be missing some of those which is why it keeps coming out. now to see if I can get some....
 
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