GEN 2 Replacing cloth seats with oem leather

[Paul Ladouceur]

I’m going to be attempting the OEM leather install in a few weeks. I’ll let everyone know how it goes.

I just did it on Friday. Got oem leather off ebay and it was in perfect condition for $300 and found a local person that does all the car dealerships locally he swapped out mine for $200. Turned out awesome!!

 

[Mustainefan]

I just did it on Friday. Got oem leather off ebay and it was in perfect condition for $300 and found a local person that does all the car dealerships locally he swapped out mine for $200. Turned out awesome!!

Awesome to hear this! Can you post some pictures?

 

[Tbutkus]

Damn anyone around me wants $500-600 to install. I’m pretty confident I can knock it out

 

[Mustainefan]

I just had mine done. I will post pics in a second. Overall it turned out very good, as in you can’t tell the difference with the naked eye. There is one difference between the cloth set and the leather set- it is the top rear 60 part. The clip that comes over the top is different and needs to be retrofitted. It is not hard to do, but it is not plug and play.

I had a local upholstery guy come and do it, and I should have just done it myself. I ended up removing and reinstalling all of the seats to help the process (and hopefully reduce cost). I also did the headrests all myself. I’m glad I did because I would be surprised if the guy would have damaged my truck interior.

This guy was a mess, and missed a few obvious things that I had to fix later. The most obvious was the rear seat bottoms, which did not have the front horizontal flanges hooked into the seat cushion. Instead they were just floating underneath the cover, and you could feel them. I suspect he may have missed some others, but it’s hard to tell. He also messed up one of the zippers so one of the seat covers is on there permanently unless I want to destroy it.

If you do end up doing these yourself, just make sure you have long sockets in 18mm, 15mm, and 13mm. Also you will need an impact driver, some plastic pry bars, and some good pliers.

If anyone wants to buy my cloth set, it’s brand new and in perfect condition. Just hit me up.

 

[Mustainefan]

 

[Tbutkus]

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Great info, thanks. How was the rear cup holder part? I was looking on how that comes apart.

 

[Tbutkus]

Just ordered a set. Going to try and tackle myself

 

[Mustainefan]

Great info, thanks. How was the rear cup holder part? I was looking on how that comes apart.

It really wasn’t bad. Most of it was not bad. I think the front seats were the most challenging.

 

[Smunczen]

I might do the swap also. I did my 19 fx4 with katzkin looked great.

 

[JefferyGT]

The cloth seats are bad ass.
Keeps your ass planted when doing those high speed drifts in the dunes.