Ok, i too thought that the seat bottom should go under those tabs but
I could never make it happen so rather than ask anyone I decided that
those tabs were more of a stop for the seat back to rest on rather
than a clip to hold the seat bottom down. I have absolutley no proof
or info on this it just saved me from trying to bend those things up
to get the seat bottom to fit under them.. ;-)
Lester
On Feb 7, 2006, at 11:45 AM, Dan Gillitzer wrote:
> Les and list:
> OK, have some pics from Lester on recovering my seats, few more
> querstions (I know, I know, should be easy, right?)
> On the seat bottom, my intention was to use the D clips, and was
> even warned by Biff to be careful to NOT let the clips dig holes
> into the cover. So, of course, I dug a few holes into the
> cover.....well, at least they're hidden pretty well. Also having
> trouble with the backrest, which I'll describe in a moment, but
> upshot is that I visited a trim shop I've dealt with a loooong time
> ago, they've been around quite awhile and seemed familiar with
> Spridget seats. On the bottoms, they suggested what Les' pictures
> show, which is to forget the D clips, at least on the rear edge,
> and glue and rivet them down to the underside of the pan. Fine, BUT
> my question is there are the 3 tabs on the frame that the pan slide
> under, is this a problem? The original way is you sort of folded up
> the excess and the D clips went "down" onto the lip, so you were
> left with an edge to go under the 3 tabs, not a sheet of straight
> vinyl. Hard to describe, but the problem is the 3 tabs I would
> think would poke into the seat cover. 'Course I already HAVE a few
> holes, so what the heck, what's 3 more?
> On the backrest covers, the piping is bunching up on the edge, it's
> the trim shops opinion that the rear of the backrest cover is too
> small. Has anyone had an experience like that? Trying to send a pic
> back to AH Spares, also going to see if the other cover fits any
> better, to see if it's AH Spares suppliers template, or just this 1
> cover is bad. Trim shop said to try to get a good cover and yes I
> should be able to do it myself, or if I wanted it fixed, probably
> 1.5-2 hrs at $50/hr.
> Dan
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