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  1. Whats happening with my coilovers. Its 4 weeks tommorow
  2. PM me a price for the coilovers please. cheers
  3. Now is onto the upright of the seat which is a bit more tricky. First seperate the seam at the bottom of the seat cover. Now pull back the seat foam to reveal two white grommets. Remove the two grommets. I dont think its possible to remove them without breaking them but I dont think there to important. Now you need to pry out the wire from the hole without bending it as it makes it awkward getting it out. Fold the back of the seat cover up and you can see a rod going through the seat cover onto the seat frame. Unhook the rod from the seat frame. Then further up the back there is an elastic strap on each side which hook on. Remove these. Now start to roll the seat cover up the seat. Dont worry about the wire in the seat cover as it will bend enough to get the cover up. keep going up till you reach the first set of hog rings on the front of the cover. Cut them and roll up some more till you find another row of rings to cut. In the back of the seat there is another rod through the cover hooked onto the frame. Unhook this. The wires which run up the front of the seat cover now come through the seat and hook onto the rod which you just removed. unhook these just by twisting them round he loop. Pull the wires through the front of the seat. Note how they go over the hook hen refitting. Then cut the last of the hog rings at the top of the seat. Finally the seat covers just stretch round the holes for the headreastand there you have it, one dirty set of seat covers. Remove the wires and rods from the covers, pop them in the washing machine and they'll come out like brand new. The rear seats are basically just the same as doing the base for the front seat.
  4. Today I decided to remove the drivers seat cover and give it a wash as this was the last one I had left to do. So I thought I would take some photos along the way and try and write a guide for folks who might want to try it themselves. If i've missed anything let me know. First remove the seat from the car and find a suitable area to work on it bearing in mind you will need to keep turning the seat over a few times. Remove the height adjustment lever by popping out the two stoppers and removing the two torx. Then remove the reclining handle which is just held on by clips at the back of it, (dont try and pry out the centre of it as its all one piece) Remove all the torx holding on the plastic trim round the bottom of the seat and remove the trim. I'll start with the seat base as its the easiest. Turn the seat upside down and unhook the seat cover from the back of the seat base. It can be quite awkward as there are small clips which grip the seat cover but these can be bent back into shape. Next work round the sides and front. These are just folded out underneath and come out easily once started. Hopefully you should now be left with this. Now its time to remove the hog rings. Cut the rings using a pair of sidecutters. Don't cut the wire thats moulded into the foam. Or as someone in another thread suggested you can try and use long nose pliers to try and open the rings. Here's the seat base with the cover removed so you can see where all the hog rings were.
  5. Or another alternative to using hog rings is to use small zip ties. Thats what I found on on one of my covers when I removed it. 777John, you get the ring on ebay hog rings
  6. Well worth doing. mines came up like brand new. As you wont be refitting them you dont need he hog rings or pliers
  7. OK here goes,from memory it went something like this. First unclip the cover at the bottom. There are two wires which go into the seat frame with grommets over them, remove the grommets then lever the wires out. Then start to roll the cover up, turning it inside out (the wire in the seat cover at the front will bend with the cover) till you can see the hog rings. Cut the rings (not the wire in the foam) with side cutters. There are two elasticated straps at the back that just hook onto a bit of wire and onto the cover. Unhook these. Keep rolling the cover up cutting the hog rings as you find them. Once you get about 2/3 of the way up roughly at the top of the bolster the wires running up the seat (where the grey / black join) go through the seat to the and clip onto a rod across the back of the frame. unhook the rod and remove the wires. after you get them off its doddle to do the last top bit Bearing in mind i'm doing this from memory so I might have forgot something. You will probably need bout 100 hog rings to do all the seats = £6 ish and a pair of hog ring pliers = £12 ish
  8. are you talking about the base of the seat or the back (upright) bit of the seat? There are no springs on the base. The rears and the base arent to difficult. takes about 1/2 hour each seat
  9. If its the base of the seat its just matter of unclipping the cover all round the bottom then lifting the cover and cutting the hog rings with side cutters (not the wire moulded into the foam on the seat base. If its the back of the seat let me know and i'll try and explain it from memory :S
  10. I took all mine off to wash them . which ones are you struggling with, front or back?
  11. taken from the website Seat Surgeons - Automotive Leather Specialists - Home Air Bag Stitching All our airbag stitching conforms to the industry standard and we can confirm that in the event of an accident the deployment of any airbags will not be hampered in any way. All our kits are made with airbag stitching to the side seams and have been tested to conclude that there is no effect to the speed or deployment of the airbag. We have invested in the latest machinery to prove we have the safest airbag seams in the industry.
  12. Angel Tuning in Troon or Seditas over in Prestwick are doing them now I think. No idea on prices though.
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