Upholstering seats

[kiwi_commer]

Anybody re-upholstered their own front seats? Any tips/pictures would be great if you've got them. Nothing comes up using the search.

 

[Aussie Commer]

I think its a bit of a craft and if you really want that original look take them to a motor trimmer. We had ours redone professionally and it only cost $180AU a seat.
If you are a dab hand at a sewing machine,, i think they make the whole covers first then just pull them on and secure at the bottom back and sides. They also add new foam.

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[commercial rain]

Someone did this and there were lots of pics! I remember that it looked a excellent job [8D]
I'll have a look ...

Claire

 

[commercial rain]

Here it is ...

http://forum.commervanfan.co.uk/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7685&SearchTerms=sewing,machine,seats

 

[Lulu]

http://forum.commervanfan.co.uk/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5597

 

[pablo]

Message me if you would like advice

 

[kiwi_commer]

Awesome, thanks for the links guys. Aussie Commer - I reckon if I can learn to weld, paint, fix mechanicals, then I can learn to sew too (or at least the missus can). Time for a bit of practice now I think, if we get stuck I'll message you Pablo - Cheers

 

[Aussie Commer]

quote:
Originally posted by kiwi_commer

Awesome, thanks for the links guys. Aussie Commer - I reckon if I can learn to weld, paint, fix mechanicals, then I can learn to sew too (or at least the missus can). Time for a bit of practice now I think, if we get stuck I'll message you Pablo - Cheers



Compared with what you have already done,, sewing will be easy mate[^]

Wherever we roam,
we still call our Commer home!
www.commervanoztour.blogspot.com

 

[BC Sunshine]

Any updates to these links?
Got estimates to recover the front seats today - “it’ll DEFINITELY be under $900, but over $600.

Time to bust out the sewing machine.

 

[Panky]

It's a link to the old original forum nut unfortunately it looks like it's totally dead now. I'll keep trying and see if I can find it.

 

[dmulally]

I had my two front seats plus dicky seat done in Levin for $700. I stripped and por15'd the frames before taking it in.

Far better than anything I could do and came up fantastic.

 

[S0updragon]

I put ‘seat covers’ in search and that bought up a few. May help

 

[Terence]

Hi. I did mine myself... Just a quick fix for now, until funds to do professional job but did Crushed velvet, stretched over existing seat & heavy duty staple gun on the back to hold in place... It'll do for now & don't look to bad... Other than this lot saying it looks like a pimp wagon.

 

[Panky]

Complete with tassles?

 

[PaulJL]

Pics needed

 

[Terence]

Pics needed

Hi Paul. My seats

 

[PaulJL]

Nice job!