seat upholstery

dotcentral · Post by **dotcentral** » May 28, 2007, 2:33 pm

My seat is original, and the bottom vinyl is shot. The springs are fine, and the back rest part seems nice and has the thunderbolt logo. I have read that no one makes a seat upholstery kit with the embossed logo.

The kits I see listed in catalogs just show a plain looking vinyl seat. Mine is the custom cab, with the fancier sort of plaid loking seat. Does anyone repro those?

What are people on the board doing to recover their seats? Local upholster shops? Mail order kits? Thanks.

PFM-64f100 · Post by **PFM-64f100** » May 28, 2007, 5:10 pm

I used the kit from http://www.f100.com There was no logo's but I had a cover on mine so no big deal to me. Take a look there were lots to choose from. http://www.purpleflyingmonkey.com/truck ... efile.html if you look at my pictures to the bottom it shows the seat recover I did. Easier than I thought. Hope this helps some..

shawns fords · Post by **shawns fords** » May 29, 2007, 9:34 am

I have a friend here in town that makes custom boat and car covers taking a shot at making me a new cover, she is even going to try to embroider the old logo in blue threads into the seat cover material that was given to me from a friend as well as vinyl around the sides in black and blue it should comeo ut sweet and will be a one of a kind> I hope it will be done by end of summer

Johnny Canuck · Post by **Johnny Canuck** » May 29, 2007, 10:09 am

National Parts Depot has them too. You might look at getting one the same color and just having the logo from your old seat patched in to it.

dotcentral · Post by **dotcentral** » May 29, 2007, 2:38 pm

duplicate post.

dotcentral · Post by **dotcentral** » May 29, 2007, 2:42 pm

Johnny Canuck wrote:You might look at getting one the same color and just having the logo from your old seat patched in to it.

I thought about that, or having it embrodiered (sp) onto the new seat cover. I wonder how well the old vinyl would look against the new? If nothing else I'd cut the old piece out and save it.

I live less than 30 minutes from NPD's Charlotte warehouse, but the catalogs illustrations don't look right to me. Maybe I'll give them a call or just drive up and ask to see it before buying.

pj's64F250&66F600 · Post by **pj's64F250&66F600** » June 3, 2007, 7:23 pm

SMS upholstery in CA will duplicate the material AND do the t'bolt embossing for u
Paul