DIY Seat Recover

[Qmouse]

I have a R80RT Mono that has a tatty seat, how easy is it to recover the seat with a new seat cover.

Is it a piece of P155, with a bit of patence or Dont bother they never go on right get a pattern seat and save your self the hassle.

Brian

 

[fayeslane]

With a good quality seat cover on an RT seat it should relatively easy if you take your time and the foam is in good nick.

I am having trouble with an R100GS seat, can't get a couple of wrinkles out at the front of the seat. Also it is riveted in place which adds to the difficulty -it'll end up at the upholsterers.

A handy tool for upholstery, if you have a compressor, is an air staple gun.

Sure to be Youtube vision of a seat being done.

 

[Beemerboff]

A second pair of hands is ,err, handy, particularly you are doing a contoured seat.
The sequence is - front - back - mid point on the side, then stretch the bit in between to follow the contours, and this sometimes needs both sides stretched at the same time, with the third hand shooting the staples/ fixing the rivets.
The R75/7 seat was a doddle, but like Fayeslane I called in help on the GS seat - the guys in the trim shop took a couple of minutes to stretch and staple it, and I had reshaped it to Corbin profile.

 

[Mike Wilkins]

R100GS seat

For those of you in the South, South/West I can recommend http://www.cobra-leathers.co.uk/home.html
She did my blue/white Para seat with blue marine quality vinyl and kept the original white bits with the GS logo. Riveted not staple gunned. Top job

 

[VAL. H.]

For those of you in the South, South/West I can recommend http://www.cobra-leathers.co.uk/home.html
She did my blue/white Para seat with blue marine quality vinyl and kept the original white bits with the GS logo. Riveted not staple gunned. Top job

+1 for Cobra. Jenny has been making and repairing Leathers for over thirty years.
I have had a few jackets and trousers altered by her and can highly recommend the work she does.


Val.

 

[Mike Wilkins]

jenny

Hi Val how it going. Its no longer Jenny she's retired and has handed over to a younger colleague who previously worked with her - sorry cant remember her name but does a good job