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Bangernomics: any interest in a "how-to"?
Joe_Horner
Posts: 4,895 Forumite
in Motoring
Just finished a little job on our 5 series that I thought might interest people who'd like to tidy their car up but are on a budget (this is MSE after all!).
The driver's seat had typical MW cloth wear to the backrest. I didn't take a before photo, but this pic of the old cloth draped over the finished job gives an idea of how bad it was:
The options were either to fit seat covers (that's what the PO had done) or do something a little more permanent. I don't like seat covers, so decided to replace the centre panels. This is the result:
The MSE connection is that total cost of the job was about £35, for which you'd be struggling to get a really good set of covers, and that's with enough fabric to do the passenger seat to match. Ok, I had the basics to hand but that covered more than enough fabric + thread and a few odds & ends like spare machine needles.
So, with the passenger side still to do, I thought I'd see if anyone would be interested in photos as I go. It's fairly time consuming, but not particularly difficult as long as you can use a domestic sewing machine. In fact. you could probably do it by hand with a little patience!
The driver's seat had typical MW cloth wear to the backrest. I didn't take a before photo, but this pic of the old cloth draped over the finished job gives an idea of how bad it was:
The options were either to fit seat covers (that's what the PO had done) or do something a little more permanent. I don't like seat covers, so decided to replace the centre panels. This is the result:
The MSE connection is that total cost of the job was about £35, for which you'd be struggling to get a really good set of covers, and that's with enough fabric to do the passenger seat to match. Ok, I had the basics to hand but that covered more than enough fabric + thread and a few odds & ends like spare machine needles.
So, with the passenger side still to do, I thought I'd see if anyone would be interested in photos as I go. It's fairly time consuming, but not particularly difficult as long as you can use a domestic sewing machine. In fact. you could probably do it by hand with a little patience!
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That's a really nice job. You should look on the Internet for the owners forum and post a detailed "how to" I'm sure they would appreciate it.
Alternatively, when you do the passenger side put a clip on Youtube.0
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