Recovering leather seats

[BigDmiata]

I recently picked up a '95 with leather seats. The leather is cracked and torn, but the car came with a new set of covers. Being as lazy as I am, I checked into having a shop recover them, but I'm a cheap bastard and that was way too much. Does anyone have a set of hog ring pliers I can borrow and know where I can get the hog rings locally? Or even better is anyone willing to recover them for me?

[POS Racing]

When re did the seat on my '92 I just used zip ties no need for the hog rings.

YMMV

[sammm]

After foam-ectomy's, I have always gone back with zip-ties....works great.

[BigDmiata]

Hmm...may just look into doing that instead. If all goes well, I may actually bother to try a foam-ectomy on the MSM

[POS Racing]

What we need is an answer from Mr. Seat of the Day himself - trickyrix

[goofygrin]

zipties... cheap, easy and less likely to end up missing a finger (<insert cheap Jimmy Jan joke here>)

[trickyrix]

What we need is an answer from Mr. Seat of the Day himself - trickyrix

He already consulted me! I haven't tried zip ties, but I had no issues with hog rings (other than a little hand cramping after I was done). Not sure how you poke the zip ties in where you need them, but I found that hog rings and pliers make it super easy to grab what you need on the seat cover, then snag the wires embedded deep in the foam. On my covers, there were a lot of spots that required a small hole be punched through the material. With the hog rings, this is a piece of cake - just grab and squeeze. Not sure how you would handle that with zip ties.

[wrx74]

Link

[Radio-Active]

Have you tried getting the hog ring pliers at tractor supply or Gebos farm store?