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These are the covers that I am using in my other post about replacing the seat covers. A couple of problems with these covers:
The pleat pulls are loops of material, no the plastic spine on the end as the original. They used the spine material for the sides of the seats and back bolsters so they have the material. Why not here? Presumably I will have to find a plastic rod to go through the loop. Otherwise I suspect the material will tear out.
The pleat pulls on the back insert and seat are too wide to fit the slot in the foam. They can be cut narrower but that also cuts through the stitching holding the loop closed.
The original seat back insert has cloth around the edge. Small slits were made in it to go over the tabs in the plastic back panel. These inserts use foam headliner material. I doubt they will last as the foam material will probably tear out. I could wet the material around the slits with cynocrylate to re-enforce them.
The back end of the seat bottom has one long plastic hook strip. The original has four plastic hooks. The base has four slots these hooks go into. Obviously will not work.
The seat bottom has foam headliner material on the inside of the sides and bolsters. The original does not. The rear corner of the cover has to be glued to the base with hot melt glue. The foam material will melt before the glue does. This will have to be cut away.
The only backing material used in the original seats are cloth across the seat bottom and back insert, a mohair material at the ends of the seat bottom and back insert and a foam material on the back of the headrest.
Maybe the foam headliner material is part of the "old world craftsman" sewing.
No complaints about the leather and stitching.
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