For Eddie Bauer Owners (Two-Tone Seats Leather Source)

[Adieu]

I found my order receipt. Oct 28 2017, 26% discount, $872.75 after discount.



I like this idea. I've never heard of finding Katzkin that cheap. That would be a score!

I got mine for like 240 iirc. Sat a few years open box but otherwise unmolested.

Alas the color is pretty much LITERALLY petrified dog poo (allegedly "driftwood" iirc)... but it's fresh and clean and leathery. And has a pretty significant sublayer that re-stiffens tired seats.


Pros & cons both: it's a lot finer than the heavy municipal transport grade vinyl **** from the factory backs and sides, so it feels like you might have to be gentler on it....then again, I haven't messed it up yet

 

[Trainmaster]

I installed a replacement Seat Shop bottom cushion cover on an '08. As was said, I removed the seat, and did the work inside. It was not as easy as it looks, but anyone with mechanical skills can do the job. About an hour wrestling with it. You need hog rings and the pliers.

The SeatShop product is better than excellent. Flawless. They have a video on their site that compares their covers with cheaper "ebay" covers, and there are big differences. If you want OEM seats, these will look like the car was just built.

 

[07navi]

I installed a replacement Seat Shop bottom cushion cover on an '08. As was said, I removed the seat, and did the work inside. It was not as easy as it looks, but anyone with mechanical skills can do the job. About an hour wrestling with it. You need hog rings and the pliers.

The SeatShop product is better than excellent. Flawless. They have a video on their site that compares their covers with cheaper "ebay" covers, and there are big differences. If you want OEM seats, these will look like the car was just built.

I agree, you can do it if you work on your own car/truck and once you do it it will be easy on the next one and glad you did it yourself. Mainly don't get cheap little hog rings and cheap china pliers.

 

[Adieu]

I agree, you can do it if you work on your own car/truck and once you do it it will be easy on the next one and glad you did it yourself. Mainly don't get cheap little hog rings and cheap china pliers.

Disagree

Dedicated hog ring pliers are almost entirely useless, all you need is regular sized hog rings and regular 90° needle nose pliers (aka the simplest most useful manual tool that you maybe never realized you regularly needed to make life non-miserable)


Or you can just get super-lazy and use zipties

 

[07navi]

Disagree

Dedicated hog ring pliers are almost entirely useless, all you need is regular sized hog rings and regular 90° needle nose pliers (aka the simplest most useful manual tool that you maybe never realized you regularly needed to make life non-miserable)


Or you can just get super-lazy and use zipties

I totally disagree. been there-tried that

 

[Broncoholic]

I agree, you can do it if you work on your own car/truck and once you do it it will be easy on the next one and glad you did it yourself. Mainly don't get cheap little hog rings and cheap china pliers.

The Seat Shop sent a pack of hog rings. It was a struggle, but I used a set of pliers on mine. I only had to do 3 or 4 on the seat back at the base of the headrest, it's not a separate headrest.

 

[Adieu]

The Seat Shop sent a pack of hog rings. It was a struggle, but I used a set of pliers on mine. I only had to do 3 or 4 on the seat back at the base of the headrest, it's not a separate headrest.

That's pretty different

3rd gens have like 20 per seat iirc

 

[star-art]

Another reason to consider using The Seat Shop is the fact our truck seat backs have AIRBAGS installed in them. The airbag module is hidden inside the seat foam and explodes through the seat cover. This requires special "breakaway" stitching for the seat backs to make sure the airbags can deploy properly. I would be wary of using an aftermarket seat cover unless I knew it was fully compatible and safe to use with airbags. The Seat Shop specifically states they have both the knowledge and experience to handle the special stitching needed for seats with airbags.

 

[Adieu]

Another reason to consider using The Seat Shop is the fact our truck seat backs have AIRBAGS installed in them. The airbag module is hidden inside the seat foam and explodes through the seat cover. This requires special "breakaway" stitching for the seat backs to make sure the airbags can deploy properly. I would be wary of using an aftermarket seat cover unless I knew it was fully compatible and safe to use with airbags. The Seat Shop specifically states they have both the knowledge and experience to handle the special stitching needed for seats with airbags.

Mine were made with the airbag stuff. Katzkin afaik.

 

[Broncoholic]

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Both covers installed, bright sun lighting.


After 2 years use, dusk light with flash. Not sure what the black smudge is in the corner, I'll have to look closer this weekend.

The hog rings are installed at the seam of the headrest. All the other edges have plastic clips that attach to the seat frame.