How hard is it to re upholster seats?

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Old Jul 11, 2013 | 03:54 PM
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These look good to me and I am tempted to give them a try. They offer money back for 30 days and they have great feedback from buyers. Looks like it even includes covers for rear headrests. These are not seat covers they are replacement upholstery. How hard is that to do? The only thing I am concerned about is in the pictures it almost looks like the headrest is integrated into the seats which I would not like. It looks like SI headrests in the picture. Has anyone here seen these in person?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1988-1991-HONDA-CIVIC-EF9-HATCHBACK-LEATHER-SEATS-COVER-/221251884257?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&vxp=mtr&hash=item3383a3d4e1
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Old Jul 11, 2013 | 04:08 PM
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i dont know about doing the headrest yourself you may want to take those to a proper shop it should be about 10 to 20 for the both of them but the seats i think you can do i remember watching a utube video where a guy showed you show when he was swaping seat rails utube honda crx seat rail swap maybe youl find it
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Old Jul 11, 2013 | 07:23 PM
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+1 on the headrest. The seat bottom and back aren't that hard to do. If only those guys online did cloth covers, I would get a set for my drivers seat!
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Old Jul 12, 2013 | 04:04 AM
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The drivers seat in my 1990 Si had the typical wear on the bolster but all the foam rubber is fine. So I purchased a set of seats that some guy had in storage for ten years that is just about perfect. I was thinking I could put these on my old seats then I could swap them whenever I wanted to. That way I could make the cloth seats last longer. I could put the original seats in for car shows and the leather seats for everyday use. I might even be able to use some of the cloth from those seats to fix the cigarette burn in my good back seat.

I looked at my headrests and it looks like the cloth goes on with a zipper.
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Old Jul 12, 2013 | 09:48 PM
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I am interested in this too because I would like to keep my original CRX seats in my rex. I may just pay someone to do it next year.
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Old Jul 13, 2013 | 05:50 AM
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I got a very nice 90-91 Passenger seat from the junkyard for $35, and the Drivers side for $25 because it is SHOT. My DX drivers side foam is very nice and not permantly gansta leaned like my 9091SI drivers side is. My plan is to save up some money until I find a nice passenger seat. Then I am going to remove the passenger side fabric and put it on my DX drivers seat with the good foam. Or I may take my 9091SI drivers seat to a seamstress and have her sew / patch the bolster with a pair of corduroy pants.

The 90-91 SI seats look like black corduroy , can anyone confirm ?? If thats the case then a $5 pair of good will corduroy pants and a $100 bill to the seamstress should get me a very nice unripped drivers side.

Thats my plan to get a nice matching set of 9091SI seats without paying $500
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