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Old 12-06-12, 10:11 PM
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Default Cheap vinyl Ebay seat covers

So these are the pleather or vinyl seat covers that are on ebay for $200 for the fronts. I decided to give them a try since my drivers seat was tore up bad, bad enough the foam was coming apart. Well for those who want to see what they look like, heres the newly recovered drivers seat sitting next to my original passenger seat. This was my first go at recovering seats and it still needs some adjustment of the foam to cover, but you get the idea. Im excited, my car will not look so ratty and showing its age. Pics of them installed coming soon

Old 12-06-12, 10:31 PM
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I've seen those. They look good even though they don't match the color well. In the sc they stand out a lot being so brightly cream, but they're still a nice improvement.
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Yea I wonder if the real leather ones the sell for $325 are the same color as their pleather ones or closer to the original color? Maybe if I can find another fixer flipper car ill try those out and either install mine into the flipper car or just keep these in mine.
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those arent half bad actually ,,,but for en extra $100-$200 u can go real leather or even get used seats in decent shape.
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Originally Posted by 1WILLY1
those arent half bad actually ,,,but for en extra $100-$200 u can go real leather or even get used seats in decent shape.
Ive looked for a few years for heather seats in good shape that are within a few hours driving distance. But there have been none that popped up. Oklahoma and the surrounding states weather is very very hard on interiors. Unless the car has been garaged its whole life, its probably got tore up covers. But I did realize that it can be possible to swap the passenger and drivers seat covers. The only problem I see with this is the headrest release button, it will leave a hole that is visible with the head rest up.

The wrinkles are driving me nuts, im gonna work with the seats a little bit more and hope I can get them out. Might have to use them for a couple of months then go back and readjust the wrinkles out.... I dunno we will see.
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Even the nice condition real leather are dead on the inside from age and crack outside super easy no matter how much you condition them. I'd rather have pleather long as it matches..
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I contacted the ebay seller, They want me to send them my original head rest so they can color match them better, They claim to not have any way to identify the original color. So I will flat rate my head rest to them and see what they can do. Maybe they can fix this for future buyers. I also sent them this picture than they said it looks a few shades off.
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i have these and have done my front seats, rear seats and headrests and they are amazing i love them.. way better than buying use black seats.
heres some pics:
My back seats:

Front Seat



and the finish product Fyi my interior use to be TAN:


Action Shot Dont mind my Tan E-Brake
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im glad i came across this. my seats are in seriously bad condition.
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Originally Posted by runabout
im glad i came across this. my seats are in seriously bad condition.
i paid like 265 for mine great investment!
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^^^Where did you get them?^^^
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The vinyl covers are a lot less expensive then real leather as well.
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i picked them up when they were running a sale like almost a year ago "ON EBAY".

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They look good! A vast improvement over seats with holes. I think I'll pick some up.
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Originally Posted by Axmily
i have these and have done my front seats, rear seats and headrests and they are amazing i love them.. way better than buying use black seats.
heres some pics:
What steering wheel is that? It looks like a 97+ SC steering wheel with a TRD emblem. Functioning airbag too I imagine then?

Seats look great! Interior looks great! Did you SEM your interior?


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