need seat upholstrey help

[iridektm]

Im going to tear my seats out and re-hoster them (?) I was wondering what and were i can egt teh materila to do this. (i can tell the speelling is bad because once again, im in calss and cant see the screen cuz its way down low, sorry) anyways, i want a ered color to match my truck, or maybe black. I kinda want neopreme or sumthing that wont mess up if it gets muddy a little. I dont want seat covers, i want to actually sstich the lining stuff in. and im going to do some custom stiching in the back rests and stuff. i may get new cushions as well.

tahnks,.

[nebraskaz71]

you sew? hmm

[BlazerBax]

If you've never sewn auto upholstery, trust me when I say....you want no part of it. If you've never done it, it will probably look like garbage (no offense). It takes some skills to stitch like those guys stitch.

Your best bet is to either
A)Save up and purchase the katzkin covers and put them on yourself.
B)Go have them upholstered and not worry about it.

I contemplated for months on picking up some katzkin covers, but ended up choosing to have them done in a shop with cloth. I love the look/feel/smell of leather, but living in an area where it is either hot/muggy or freezing all the time, Cloth seemed like the better answer.

Leatherseats.com quoted me at 789.00 for the leathers, but they can be scored for 6-650 depending on the group buy. I paid 690.00 out the door for having my front buckets and rear seat covered factory original. This also bought me a couple yards of cloth to do the panels as well.

[nebraskaz71]

Not to go off topic but could leather inserts be put in the center of the factory seats I mean is that something that a shop could easily do for fairly cheap or that really involved?

[iridektm]

i think im just goin to buy new seats. i want buckets, not my bench. or at least the 40/20/40 or whatever it is called

[blugrassboy]

Not to go off topic but could leather inserts be put in the center of the factory seats I mean is that something that a shop could easily do for fairly cheap or that really involved?



it is easily done.....if you are experienced....i wouldnt recommend trying it urself, it was so easy, everyone would be doing it and i'd be out of work!! :smokin:

[nebraskaz71]

No I would have a shop do it but I wonder if it would be drastically cheaper then katzkin

[JB]

buy the seats you want, then get some katskin covers...much easier.