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Best idea might be to leave both seats at an upholstery shop and pay them to do the swap. The tools aren't specialized but the patience and knowledge of how to proceed is.
You might want to get a spare passenger seat from a junkyard to do the swap. Do you really want to end up with a good driver's seat but a crappy passenger side?
Is the driver foam really worn out? Changing it is more trouble than just the leather cover - - there's the seat heater wiring coming up from below that you'd need to cut and splice, and some really gooey adhesive sticking the burlap onto the seat frame.
Seat bottom covers alone isn't that hard. Once seats are both out of car, unbolt backs from bottoms, unplug wiring to back heater, set aside. Pry sheet metal clips off leatherette skirting at bottom, front and rear. Work big stiff wires in bottom of skirting at each side towards front or rear to release one end, then remove other.
Flip seat onto its back and working from below, you should see seven S-hooks attached to the wire support network, at slots at front center, each front corner, two at middle, and two at rear. They attach to the horseshoe-shaped and straight wires that suck the cover down into the seat contour.
Unhook all seven from the bottom wires and cover should pull right off.
If seat heater is important to you and if you can solder you could take this opportunity to fix any breaks in it. I posted a how-to on here a few months ago.
On a little-used seat the canvas sleeves that the seat contouring wires ride in will probably be okay for reattaching, but they do seem to rot from age alone.
My guess is that it will be easier to reattach everything if you wet the leather seat to make it stretchy and flexible. One wetting won't hurt good leather; give it a shot of some leather treatment once it's dry again.
If you have to do the backs too, my impression is that after unzipping at bottom, you skin them by turning cover inside out, reaching successive sets of S-hooks like those on the seat bottom that need to be unhooked from the back. I don't think you can get the headrest off until you have turned the skin inside out all the way to the top, to find the fastener that holds headrest in.
posted by 70.16.7...
, Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:43:11
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