Help with new seat covers from Legendary???

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Help with new seat covers from Legendary???
« on: March 22, 2002 - 08:10:44 PM »
Ok guys...this is the weekend to install the Legendary seat covers on Daisy's front seats.  They give detailed instructions.....but since I haven't done this before.....and special advice or secrets?
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Re: Help with new seat covers from Legendary???
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2002 - 08:13:51 PM »
good post Wizard,I too have new seat covers in boxes and am waiting for the time to do it, All i am for sure of is you need Hog ring pliers and ring... I also heard to leave the covers in the sun for a few minutes to help the stretching....
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Re: Help with new seat covers from Legendary???
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2002 - 08:20:47 PM »
Yeah.....I got the hog rings pliers...two different types.....I love to buy tools.....but I have no idea how to use them.....haha.....guess I'll figure it out.
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Re: Help with new seat covers from Legendary???
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2002 - 08:23:20 PM »
take notes and post..hehhee i have all new interior in boxes, carpet to headliner, to front and reat seat covers...  8)  what part of L.A are you at???

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Re: Help with new seat covers from Legendary???
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2002 - 08:30:50 PM »
West San Fernando Valley
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Re: Help with new seat covers from Legendary???
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2002 - 08:34:21 PM »
like glendale?
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Re: Help with new seat covers from Legendary???
« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2002 - 08:43:10 PM »
That's east....haha....more west.....Woodland Hills.....the first city you hit when coming from your direction.  I put on an autocross last weekend at Camarillo Airport for NSXs...but we had the whole area to just play with...like burnouts and donuts and stuff in MOPARS......I'll invite you next time.  You going to Spring Fling?
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« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2002 - 05:57:25 PM »
hi all,

when i installed my seat covers, it was not bad at all

the main thing is warmth. that makes them easier

to stretch. i was doing the front in a challenger.

first you have to turn the covers inside out, put the

rods in the sleaves for the center and start hog ringing.

after the center is in place, here is the tricky part. flip

the cover over the top of the seat, start pulling and

working it down till the top of the cover down on the

seat. DO YOU HAVE THE OLD ONE still on? IF SO YOU

WILL GET A BETTER IDEA BY TAKING THAT ONE OFF.

it took a couple of hours by they looked great after.

i did mine in the winter, so the furnace did the heating.

i could show you my pics of the project but i don't know

how to get them to you.

hope that helps




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Re: Help with new seat covers from Legendary???
« Reply #8 on: May 13, 2002 - 12:05:15 AM »
If you have full vinyl seats, (without the plastic back cover), the easiest trick to get the covers to go on easily and not wreck the foam is to put some thin plastic (poly) over the foam... then when you flip the new vinyl over the top, it just slides right on, no matter how cold it is.

A trick from the great white north...  ;)