Sitting pretty...

Some months ago, Jen treated Charlie Camel to some rather nice Exmoor Trim heated seat bases. Its amazing how much more comfy they are than the old collapsed seat bases!

The heat pads come as part of a kit, so we also had the bits to do the seat backs aswell. This weekend we finally fitted the seat back heat pads together with some luuuuurvly matching new seat vinyls. The kits came from Exmoor Trim again, but this time rather than being ready assembled, we had to fit the new covers and squabs.

This is the sort of job I hate, cos any damage can't be rectified with a welder, or some spanners! So it was with some trepidation that I started to unpeel the old seat coverings from the frame. It's actually a lot easier than I expected. With the seat covers removed, you simply pull off the old seat squab (foamy padded bit) and plonk the new one in place. Then its justa case of fitting the new seat trim. My only complaint is that the instructions were a bit pants and that one of the seat covers tore quite easily at the bottom corner, but as its right at the bottom, you can't see it when the seat is in place. We'll keep an eye on it, hopefully it won't get any worse.

It probably took less than an hour to do each seat... this gives some idea of how easy the job is.

So we now have a pair of completely refurbished front seats. All I have to do now is wire up the heaters... Thats a job for another day tho.