Repair Worn Drivers Seats (r33 But Prob Others To)

[BundyBear]

so after years of having a daggy seat and not wanting to fork out $$$ for another that's not much better and will probably tear in a year or so I finally had an idea how to fix it like new and for minimal $$$

What you'll need:-

a spare passengers seat (their hardly used so cheap, easy to get and in good nick

tools -->

spanners are 14mm and 17mm

a mate to hold stuff and pass the beers

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first grab your old daggy drivers seat

pull the headrest out, belt ya mate with it and through it away (unless its better than your old one)

wind the wings right out (helps when refitting the cover later)

pull of the knob that adjusts the wings, theirs a clip like the old windows winders just poke it out with the slotted screwdriver

Next is the panel on the back with the pocket

squeeze ya hand in the bottom and use the needle nose to close the clips and pop em out (you can afford to break 2 on each seat)

remove the white plastic retaining strips around the edge. I used the slotted screwdriver to push em of from the back

open the sides up like

undo the 2 14mm bolts hidden behind the foam

and the 17mm on the other side

again with the needle nose spread and remove the 3 wire clips holding the cloth to the frame. open them up to a "C" shape to help squash them back on later.

slowly work the foam from the bottom half of the frame (its not glued just stuck with age and preasure so comes of easy)

Stick ya hand down between the springs and foam and pop out the 2 guides for the headrest

then pry the rest of the foam from the frame and remove it from the rest

tell ya mate to grab a beer for you

take beer from mate then belt him with the old seat cover

repeat for your donor passengers seat

reassemble your drivers frame with the passengers cover. the process is pretty much the reverse of above. just make sure the frame sits in the cover properly, you get the guides for the headrest around the right way

and hook the cover over the 2 lowest tabs behind the rear pocket

bung seat back in car and park yourself in it while ya mate grabs you another beer to enjoy a nice defect free drivers seat

this was with R33 gtst seats but should be pretty similar for R32 and R34 id say

cheers

[mickar33gtsts1]

Just finished doing this to my drivers seat. Description was a good laugh and was correct. Thanks for posting it for others to follow