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kurgen

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Hi I just tried and failed to retrim the passenger seat on my 1988 90 County, I have watched the Britpart and the Exmore trim videos and neither look like the seats that mine has. As far as I'm aware these are the factory fitted ones. I stripped my seats and got as far as gluing the foam in and partially fitting the trim, then realised my seats didn't match. mine has a solid metal back with tie points, the video shows a fabric or leather back. the bottom of my seat wear the cover is fixed has hooks and my old covers had a metal rod that clipped into these. The brit part covers have nothing, and it wont stretch over far enough and even if it did it would snag on the hooks. also the backing foam is crap it doesn't fully pad out the cover even with the insert. anyone else had this.?? ... some pics below to explain what I mean

these show new cover with no rods, and shows the hooks on my seat
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This is the original cover with rods

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sorry uploaded 2 the same by mistake, the first pic shows the new cover which has sliding clips, the existing seat has metal hooks, and the bottom pic shows the old cover with metal rods that lock into these metal hooks.
 
Hi, I've recently done my seats with the Exmoor kit..
The seat back is really hard to do.. you have to pull the front of the seat back under and round to the back to join up with the rear sliding clip.. I know it seems like miles off fitting but persevere with it, pull and pull some more on both the back and front bit and they will eventually meet when your fingers start bleeding ;)
If you are worried about the tabs from the previous bar attachment fixing poking into the new cover you could tap them in with a hammer.. Good luck!
 
MsFire said:
Hi, I've recently done my seats with the Exmoor kit..
The seat back is really hard to do.. you have to pull the front of the seat back under and round to the back to join up with the rear sliding clip.. I know it seems like miles off fitting but persevere with it, pull and pull some more on both the back and front bit and they will eventually meet when your fingers start bleeding ;)
If you are worried about the tabs from the previous bar attachment fixing poking into the new cover you could tap them in with a hammer.. Good luck!
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I too used the Exmoor trim kit and found pulling the cover sections together very nearly, but luckily not quite, impossible. Exmoor's YouTube video, accessible from their website, is very good in pointing out the differences between new and old covers. It's also reassuring to see that the cover sections CAN be made to join up. I made things triply difficult by adding the heating kit and the lumbar support.
 
I have come so close to ordering some nice trim from xmoore, but keep thinking it will be an all day job and nothing but aggro, also worried they will look like I have retrimmed them lol
 
My fingers hurt just seeing these pictures. It's been 7 years since I did mine. The video made it look sooooo easy.
 
If yours is 1988 you may have the older version of the Defender seat which had a thin plastic back. The metal frames that go into the side bolsters are bigger, so you need to get a knife and hollow out the cut outs in the new foams a bit more so the foams sit flush with the seat backs.

Get the seat back cover on as best you can, and then come back the next day to actually clip the bottom together...it will all have stretched overnight. Persevere...I did mine in leather with heaters and I was very pleased with the end result...even if the seats nearly went flying through the garage window a few times.
 
thanks for all the replies. yes the video looks easy and most of it was until pulling the cover over. My seats have metal backs that have more hooks in for latching the fabric to. not like the plastic back with metal rod in the video. you might be right about the seat frames, at the moment there is a big air hole where your back would sit and not enough seat padding to fill it. This doesnt help that im an IT person not Mechanical i was hoping this would be an easy job. and i havnt even looked at the base.

Almost considered throwing both seats out and getting some sparco defender seats, or is that treason talk?
 
kurgen said:
thanks for all the replies. yes the video looks easy and most of it was until pulling the cover over. My seats have metal backs that have more hooks in for latching the fabric to. not like the plastic back with metal rod in the video. you might be right about the seat frames, at the moment there is a big air hole where your back would sit and not enough seat padding to fill it. This doesnt help that im an IT person not Mechanical i was hoping this would be an easy job. and i havnt even looked at the base.

Almost considered throwing both seats out and getting some sparco defender seats, or is that treason talk?
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Latest update. Paddocks have sent pics to britpart, and britpart have offered to retrim the seats for me as they are unusual. They were collected Thursday. Will update when i know more
 
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