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If the rear seat bottoms on your 9-5 are damaged or worn (my daughter held a candle in the back seat, and the hot wax dripped onto the fabric and melted it in places!), you can order new seat covers from Saab. They had to come from the motherland (Sweden) and took a couple of weeks. I have cloth seats, but these instructions are the same for leather.
Tools:
- a hefty wire cutter with a tapered nose
- a package of medium weight zip-ties
1) Pull up the seat bottom using the nylon pull. You'll see a red plastic keeper underneath. Pull that straight up, slide the seat sideways, then tilt it back down a bit, and the seat bottom comes away.
2) turn over the seat bottom and pull up the black plastic channel stitched into the seat cover that presses down onto the metal seat frame. 3) Pull out the nylon seat pull from the seat cover.
4) the metal seat bottom will now be free, but the foam cushion will still have the middle of the seat cover attached to it.
5) the middle of the seat cover has four thin rods inserted into it, and each is hooked down using a metal ring to a set of rods imbedded in the foam part of the seat. Gently pull up the seat cover one side at a time, and use the wire cutters to clip the metal rings. These metal rings are about 12 gauge wire and need a good healthy effort to break. The larger the wire cutter, the better.
6) remove the four metal rods from the old *seat cover* (not the foam cushion), and transfer them into your new seat cover.
7) match the new seat cover to the foam cushion. Cut a small hole in the seat cover fabric that holds the metal rod at the same position that it is joined to the seat cushion rods, and insert a zip tie, making sure the zip tie goes *around* the metal rod
8) thread the end of the zip tie under the metal rod imbedded in the seat custion, bring it up, and insert it into the zip tie lock, and tighten just a few clicks. Don't tighten it all the way down, or you'll have a lot of trouble doing the other seven locations. Do this for all eight tie-down locations.
9) Now that you have all eight zip ties loosely done, tighten all the zip ties securely and clip off the excess.
10) turn over the seat cushion and put the metal plate back on
11) push the seat cover's black plastic channel onto the edge of the metal seat plate
12) replace the seat cushion, making sure you replace the red plastic keeper.
You are done.
It took me about 40 minutes to do the first one, and about 20 to do the second. It may sound difficult, but is really very easy. The rear seat now looks new.
Next project is to replace the front seat covers.
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