How hard is re foaming/covering seat yourself?
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The pillowtop seats with power are annoying to work with but the vinyl seats anybody could do themselves basically. If you have the Brougham seats the shop would be a better choice. Some people also score seats from early 00's MC-SS which are black leather and bolt to the stock seat tracks locations in g-bodies too.
Were you unable to find the correct reproduction seat foams for your 1978 seats? I thought that they are available from PUI.
Yeah, pui directed me to a local dealer who sells high back gbody foam... I've read so many posts that seem to come to same conclusion-take it to the pro's after so many guys say it's a PITA and once you buy the stuff to do it, that the money to have it installed isn't that bad. Wanted to get some opinions here.
Geo's66 said:
I just finished re doing a set and after seeing what's involved to do it right I'm glad I didn't attempt it myself. If you want the seats to look factory original, take them to a pro.
hahahaha. I was never going to come out and say I already made this mistake; but now that you guys have admitted it. I put a vinyl bench seat together once so I thought was Mr. Interior Design all the sudden. When I tried to stuff a Brougham seat the results were the exact opposite. No matter what I did it still looked like a bad art project from a kindergartner. After 2 hours I finally got it just right and started to walk away. Then to my horror I heard a noise. All the rods went taught and started shifting. A spring shattered. DOING! I smashed that seat into 100's of pieces when I turned around and saw a little metal rod poking through the seat cover. Hundreds of dollars worth of investment became worthless in mere seconds. Steve Austin mode commenced immediately.
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