Fitting Luxury Leather Car Seat Covers
Sol-Ace Window Tinting Ltd specialise fitting leather seat covers and their Top Five Pointers for ensuring quality leather seat cover fitting are:
1) Tight fitting seat covers - Poor fitting leads to baggy seat covers. This not only looks bad, and creases, but these creases can become uncomfortable and crack under heat.
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This image shows a crease in the seat. If this crease is not smoothed out, it can lead to cracking and expensive repairs. |
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This image shows a properly stretched and fitted leather seat. The leather used here is well fitted with the stitches lined up straight and will provide years of luxurious comfort. |
2) Quality of leather - Look for the feel of thick, supple, full grained leather, and the smell. Remember that cheap dyed Colours can wash out causing not only issues with looks but clothes as well. Leather seats are available in many colours in smooth grained or perforated leather. For an interesting article on leather click here.
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This image shows a perforated black leather seat. It is possible to get perforated and smooth grained leather seats many colours, the most popular being gray, black and beige. |
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It is not only the seats that can be covered with leather. The image on the left demonstrates how the door trimmings can be given that luxurious leather touch as well. |
3) Stitching - The stitching needs to be straight. If there is uneven pressure on the stitching, the leather can move on the seat. This can lead to split stitching.
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This image shows a properly stretched and fitted leather seat. The leather used here is well fitted with the stitches lined up straight and will provide years of luxurious comfort. |
4) Seat re-connected correctly for safety - Look at the seat belt mountings.
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In order to fit leather seat covers correctly, it is necessary to remove the seats from the vehicle. |
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The seat must be re-inserted correctly with special attention paid not only to fixing the seat but to the seat belt mountings as well. |
5) Head rest tight snug fit - Inside out, upside down zip, providing a neat finish.
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The use of an upside down, inside out zip allows the fitting of a leather head rest to be snug and neat |
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Head rests are important to the look of the car and care must be taken to ensure that the leather headrests look smart and tidy. |
So, as a summary, putting quality leather seats into a car can add added luxury but it is a skilled job that needs to be done by an experienced practitioner. However, it is worth it!!
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