Has anyone here de-skinned a drivers seat?

[Science Abuse]

My drivers seat has some asymmetrical foam: The left side bolster pushes in and the left side lays nearly flat. This makes for an uncomfortable ride, and I'd like ot pull the skin and massage flat the buggered up bolster, or cut a new foam peice for the left side.

 

[NoLimit95]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=removing+seat+skins+from+Mark+VIII

 

[Stangman]

What year of car do you have? If your leather is in poor shape, might just be better off finding new seats. If its a first gen.... well, our seats suck anyway lol

Oh I also see you're from Cincy... welcome neighbor!

 

[topher5150]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=removing+seat+skins+from+Mark+VIII

that's freakin funny

 

[Science Abuse]

It's a Gen2 LSC. Looking for guidance from anyone who may have tried this before, I don't want to go unhooking clips and pulling things out without being sure that I'm not damaging things.

Oh I also see you're from Cincy... welcome neighbor!

You're quite a ways out there, fun roads though!

Oh I also see you're from Cincy... welcome neighbor!

You're quite a ways out there, fun roads though!

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=removing+seat+skins+from+Mark+VIII

Heeeeey thanks for googling that for me big guy, I'm not buying seat covers, foam is the problem.

 

[Science Abuse]

Got it. Found a thread on LOD about fixing the seat heaters, which came with pictures and instructions.

 

[DieselDan]

You are going to need to cut off all the hog rings and then reinstall all new hog rings... Not real fun.

 

[Science Abuse]

Hog ring? I managed to expose what I needed, only had to deal with a strip-clip at the bottom of the back, and very strong velcro inside.

What happened: The seat heater for that bolster "ran away", it got too hot. There are little burn marks on it, and on the underside of the leather. This heat made the foam of the bolster shrink and deform.

I'm cutting the foam back into the correct shape, and using either a glue gun or spray adhesive (currently testing to see if it melts), I'll build the foam back up using some foam sheet that I grabbed at work.

 

[DieselDan]

http://www.mustangmonthly.com/techarticles/mump_1104_reupholstering_mustang_seats/index.html

Check that link out... Can't remember now if the front seats had hog rings in the seat back or not... I recovered my current seats, they were Saddle, now they are Black.

 

[Science Abuse]

I may not have gotten that deep. Here's what I did:

Undo the strip clip where the ass meets the back, carefully slip everything up like your girlfreinds shirt... if she had velcro on her boobs.
You can see my heater pads and the side bolsters; the bolster on the right is a different shape and density. Weird:

PS, I did re-glue the velcro.

Looking at the heating pad, see the small burn marks:

Looking at the underside of the leather, you see more burns. This damn thing got hot!

So, from what evidence there is, the heating element had some hot points in it, some points of higher resistance, which got much hotter than they should have. This heat caused the foam to shrink. I can't imagine some one sitting in the seat when it got this hot.

I got some foam and spray-glued it to the side bolster and went after it with a knife. I carved it back into the shape that it "kinda should be".

I didn't nail it, I think I needed another layer of foam to get it aesthetically correct. BUT, most importantly, my back doesn't care. The seat feels like it should now, no lump in my left side.