Leather seat cover install

[steroidcontaskie]

Hi all

I am getting some premade leather seat covers for my car shipped over from the states and am weighing up options for how to get them installed. Basically I have 2 options, try do it myself or see if I can find an upholsterer to install them for me.

Has anyone had experience installing car seat covers themselves? If so is it a viable DIY job, or if I really should pay someone to do it, then does anyone know of a good installer in Auckland?

Cheers
Edward

[Stott69]

This is for an Aristo but may be worth a browse. http://exactjdm.com/help/clazzio/

[steroidcontaskie]

Cool, I will have a read, will be interesting to see if they fit well, were quite inexpensive.

Cheers Edward

[fielderz]

I did exactly this for my Z32 300zx, the fitment wasn't 100%, but pretty close to it, tidied it up a great deal and the leather was pretty good quality according to the upholster that installed the kit.
I would say it would depend on the complexity/shape of the seats.
eg I would feel comfortable installing such a kit myself on my fielder due the relatively simple seat seat design front and rear, however on the Z there were a number of protrusions such a lumbar support adjusters and a very complex head rest/top of seat shape, and they were just generally very curvy seats to, and I wasn't confident to not cock up the fitment. It turned out to be smart as the marked locations for the protrusion holes were not 100%, so I'm glad I payed someone with experience.
Paying the upholster was cheap to in comparison the price of the kit..

[steroidcontaskie]

Cool, the soarer is pretty simple, but if it isn't to expensive I might get someone to do it. How much did it cost to get it installed?

[fielderz]

Sweet, could be worth a go if you're confident then. It was about $200 ish for the installation (front and rear seats + centre console) from memory, although it was about 3 years ago so my memory is a little fuzy. It was $1000 ish for the kit from the states, so another couple of hundred was ok with me if it meant a good result.

[steroidcontaskie]

For that kind of money I would get someone else to do it. Mine was about the same price, but I got seat heaters and arm rests added. You didn't happen to buy it from exotic leather did you?

Cheers Edward

[snwtoy]

This is for an Aristo but may be worth a browse. http://exactjdm.com/help/clazzio/

Again, in order to make hippopotamus one the line of the sea 卜 adapt, fine control, it is completion of the back rest

best japlish I've seen in ages!!

[Stott69]

Hippo and line of the sea sound pretty acurate tho

[fielderz]

For that kind of money I would get someone else to do it. Mine was about the same price, but I got seat heaters and arm rests added. You didn't happen to buy it from exotic leather did you?

Cheers Edward

I can't remember exactly, may have been but I suspect not. They do oem style covers for pretty much every model you could imagine, but I'm sure there are a few crowds doing it and I would guess they all be pretty similar and of reasonable quality if coming from the states. The leather on my set was definitely of higher quality than factory (not that hard haha).
Goodluck with yours.