$40 Bench Seat Cover for pros
This hot mod cost me $40 total. $30 seat cover from AutoZone and some $10 worth of spray adhesive. My rear bench was green with floral print, and looked like a lion was let loose on it for years. Previous owner fixed this by stapling a red floral print blanket to the plastic trim over the seat. It held for 2 years without shifting... but was a floral print wrinkly gross blanket...AND stapled to the car...
I hate the way seat covers shift and don't fit right, hence the spray adhesive. It was a new idea I had. I wasn't drunk, and I thought it would work. It actually did work, and held down nice. 2 new holes needed to be cut for the short seat belts on each end, but the other three lined up well to the 2 holes already in it. The cover was almost dead perfect to the trim and everything.
I'd say it looks better than a floral print blanket, and is 100% super professional upholstery that looks 1,000,000 times better than any upholsterer could do. /sarcasm
Here's a photo of the box if your back seat is trash and like me - you can't afford a new rear seat yet.
And I started laying out my carpet sound deadener Home Depot style and bought some carpeting to redo the interior, and about 12 yards of black vinyl, but that's for another thread...
So yeah, in conclusion - if you were thinking of gluing a seat cover to a seat but didn't want to be the first to try something so dumb - I did it for you. I'll update how it looks in a while and see if it stays.
This hot mod cost me $40 total. $30 seat cover from AutoZone and some $10 worth of spray adhesive. My rear bench was green with floral print, and looked like a lion was let loose on it for years. Previous owner fixed this by stapling a red floral print blanket to the plastic trim over the seat. It held for 2 years without shifting... but was a floral print wrinkly gross blanket...AND stapled to the car...
I hate the way seat covers shift and don't fit right, hence the spray adhesive. It was a new idea I had. I wasn't drunk, and I thought it would work. It actually did work, and held down nice. 2 new holes needed to be cut for the short seat belts on each end, but the other three lined up well to the 2 holes already in it. The cover was almost dead perfect to the trim and everything.
I'd say it looks better than a floral print blanket, and is 100% super professional upholstery that looks 1,000,000 times better than any upholsterer could do. /sarcasm
Here's a photo of the box if your back seat is trash and like me - you can't afford a new rear seat yet.
And I started laying out my carpet sound deadener Home Depot style and bought some carpeting to redo the interior, and about 12 yards of black vinyl, but that's for another thread...
So yeah, in conclusion - if you were thinking of gluing a seat cover to a seat but didn't want to be the first to try something so dumb - I did it for you. I'll update how it looks in a while and see if it stays.
