I can see the metal through my ripped leather.

He ain't lying guys :no:

Too late for you then! :'(

It's my fat ass, and the fact that I'm in and out of the car about 40 times a day on a bad day lol

I'm gonna be picking up the foam tomorrow from the stealers, so hopefully gonna do this and a load of other jobs at the weekend. Fun fun fun

Ordered mine too, coming on Thursday. Another job for the weekend!

Well, got the foam bit today and I'm all excited lol.

I have tested it out for comfort on ding room table chair, and the foam seems a lot firmer and more supportive.

Looking forward to getting it done and getting rid or the metal edge sticking into my leg

UPDATE:

Just finished it, took me 2 hours and a couple of brusied knuckles. :wonder:

The seat is a lot firmer now, and doesn't creak anymore!

All in all, worth doing. The leather has almost worn through, so do it while you can!

UPDATE:

Just finished it, took me 2 hours and a couple of brusied knuckles. :wonder:

The seat is a lot firmer now, and doesn't creak anymore!

All in all, worth doing. The leather has almost worn through, so do it while you can!

It's well worth doing & not that hard, just fiddly. Look what happened to fatty5000's seat!

Edited 13 August, 201015 yr by pauldazzle

I should be collecting my 2 seat bases from the dealership tomorrow, not looking forward to doing them one little bit.

Mega downfall of buying an ex police octavia, both seats being worn.

You'll be well pleased when they're finished, & fitted back in again .

You'll be well pleased when they're finished, & fitted back in again .

All done, 2.5 hours of fiddly hell, but 2 firm seat bases, my hands hurt alot now, lol. Recommend this to anyone though, as said simple enough job for a novice DIY-er and will save a fortune in the long run.

Got a bit wet re-fitting the passenger side as it started raining.

Found a weird box under the drivers seat, found to be a little speaker, must be left over police equipment - removed it anyway.

Also found a square hole in my passenger rear mat and the carpet where more police equipment must have been fitted, annoyingly it was screwed to the floor plan...... now i have 2 screw holes where i can see through the car to the ground :-( Not sure how to sort this effectively to stop rust etc....mmm?

Got to shampoo the carpets though!

Next up all new badges.

Edited 14 August, 201015 yr by Jon.etheridge

Did mine yesterday too......I must say when you guys were talking about your hands hurting and swearing alot I thought "Puffs"

But my hands are killing me and I was swearing big time!

Not a hard job but needs a lot of physical pressure to pop those hooks off/on again and the seat is bloody heavy for manouveriung around.

Seat is like Night/Day better so worth an hours work.

done mine today super guide

took about an hour all in inc hunting for all the loose change

glad i did it as the metal had bar started to wear threw the leather

You did it just in time, it would have worn through the leather soon by the look of it.

i've just noticed the pasenger one is starting to wear so that's next thing on the list

its crazy how the foam literally disintegrates isnt it.

I put some gaffer tape on the inside where mine had rubbed through the material towards the leather to help protect it from any further rubbing.

Anyone in surrey fancy doing this for me? I want to do it at some point but pooping myself i will get it wrong !!

Anyone in surrey fancy doing this for me? I want to do it at some point but pooping myself i will get it wrong !!

i'm based in watford if you fancy a drive out

I will def give you a shout if i go ahead with this, got a sticky rear caliper at the moment so that comes first unfortunately

I will def give you a shout if i go ahead with this, got a sticky rear caliper at the moment so that comes first unfortunately

no worries i'm here at work till the 23rd dec

send me a pm if you want it sorting

That was a first class write up.

Haynes manual would be far better if it took some of the excellent write ups from this forum.

I found getting the seat cover back under the metal groove easier by using a narrow headed wallpaper scraper and used a screwdriver to help prise off the plastic trim initially.

Overall a fairly straight forward DIY. Seat base £77 incl VAT from Skoda.

That was a first class write up.

Haynes manual would be far better if it took some of the excellent write ups from this forum.

I found getting the seat cover back under the metal groove easier by using a narrow headed wallpaper scraper and used a screwdriver to help prise off the plastic trim initially.

Overall a fairly straight forward DIY. Seat base £77 incl VAT from Skoda.

Glad the guide helped. Think I paid a little less for the base from TPS, but only a few quid.

Top man. Also took your tip and got rid of that really really annoying bonging noise because i always want to start the car before connecting the seat belt. Don't get me wrong, i always wear a belt when driving, i just don't like having to connect it all up before turning the key, especially in the current weather when i need to run the car for a few minutes and scrape the ice off the screen. :yes:

Edited 15 November, 201015 yr by Shroud

I always where my seat belt, & can't understand why anyone wouldn't, but that damn noise was annoying.

Hi

first post in a while

was thinking of changing but going to keep for another year so I'm going fix all the niggles

are the foam bases handed, if not I'm going to swap RH to LH and fix the poorly bits up so they are on the inside pass. seat which should save me £80 ??

if not, TPS it is

also going to get a black carpet from another model and dye the white seat bases as its doing my head in :(

No, they're not handed, so you can swap them over.

Let us know how the dying goes - Don't think anyone has tried it yet, and it might look quite good