Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Subaru plaid seat recover



I'm finally getting around to seat rebuilding and recovering.  My skills at seat recovering have become acceptable on moped seats, so I'm going to give this a shot.  Speaking of shot, the foam in these seats is crap, so I'll be cutting new foam, which is going to make my usual method of making a pattern of the old seat cover less effective because the foam will be different.  I am trying to find a good plaid fabric to do the inserts with, I think I've got a hold of some on Ebay that should work out.  JoAnne's fabrics didn't have any that I liked, and we have no trim shop in Lafayette, so I might end up getting foam from JoAnne's.  The springs seem very springy still and look to be in good shape, I don't think I need to replace them, but I might add one or two more to help get rid of sag.