Hey Guys,

Just wondering if anybody had any experience upholstering the explorer seats. Just wondering the difficulty of the job. I found some real nice camo vinyl fabric that would look awesome. I can sew and was pretty good at it. Any advice will be appreciated. What would help would be maybe how to figure out how much material I need. Also thinking about two tone camo and charcoal. Just ideas right now and if yall have any ideas please let me know.

Jeremy

 

A member here does it for a living and I am sure he will post when he sees this. Its not the easiest thing in the world to do.

 

i've done several sets of them. there are a few different style of expo seats, some aren't too bad to recover, others are pretty difficult. as far as how much material, 5 yards should be enough to do in one color, or if doing two materials, 2 yards for the inserts, 4 yards for the rest. don't forget your 1/2" and 1/4" scrim foam as well. here are some i have done over the past couple years.

this one was modified heavily, but still an explorer bucket:


charcoal grey cloth


light grey cloth


replaced just the inserts in these...grey suede with black piping:



and this is the current set i'm working on. black leather with grey embroidery and some 270 weight thread (it's big!):

 

The grey is the one I am getting. If it turns out as good as I imagine it in my mind I think it will look real good. I have some more questions but I will wait until I get to a real keyboard. It takes me forever to type on this phone. My fingers are too big I guess.

 

i still wish i lived moderately close to you Troy lol

 

a guy from up your way met Troy at my house one day to switch out seats, come on down

 

too far and you may try to steal my truck lmao

 

shipping isn't that bad....i've sent a pair of seats to NJ

cffd, pm'd you.