Hey all. Wanting to replace my seat covers for a 2003 F-250 SD crew. Been looking at the Seat Shop for OEM products.. Has anyone bought from them and how did things fit ? Thanks in advance.

 

I just looked around their site. The one thing that didn't really impress me was the before/after pics. Most of the after pics the covers looked loose to me. Most of the before pics, even though they were worn, the upholstery was tight and had cleaner lines. It could just be a poorly done install, or the fabric could be cut slightly oversize to make install easier for DIY'ers, IDK. I helped in an upholstery shop for a couple years and it's not easy to get some covers tight if they were made a little loose. If you have a sewing/fabric/hobby shop around you might be able to find 1/4" foam sheets you can use to build up the base foam which can help. I've done a few recovers and I'll avoid it if i can, upholstery work is a P.I.T.A. If you are gonna do it, pull your covers back first , or just cut them open, and check out your foam. Sometimes it'll feel fine but once you start pulling the covers it falls apart.

Have you looked at Ebay to see if you could find some original Ford covers? Another option is swapping out the whole seats. For what you'd spend to put all new covers in a CC you might be able to find a nice used set that would just be a bolt in swap.

 

The seats in my regular cab f-450 were bad when I purchased the truck a year ago. Has the buckets with the jump seat in the center. I looked on Ebay till I found a company that sold reasonably priced vinyl covers. The foam was not perfect, so I used a bread knife and some spray adhesive and used the passenger foam to repair the drivers seat foam. Then ordered a new foam pad for the passenger bottom. Backs were ok. Bought a hog ring plier at HF, used needle nose pliers to take out the old hog rings, and took seats apart one at a time, then recovered each one and put them back in truck. Looks like new now. My granddaughters were impressed. 14 and 17. Took considerable time, these seat repairs are not easy. Used seats were not available that were any good. Seems all the 15 year old truck seats are worn out. Repaired my lumbar supports while the seats were out.

 

I replaced the leather seat bottoms in the wife's Excursion with the Seat Shop man made leather probably 10 years ago and it has held up good. The drivers side stitching is coming apart but she is short and constantly sliding through that area. For $65 for that piece, I'll gladly replace it again as it's really not that big of deal. The original cloth seat bottoms in my F350 are still in good shape but I might get some generic covers for them so they last as I don't think there is a cloth factory looking replacement out there from what I've seen.

 

Thanks everyone. I'd really hate to spend that kind of money and not have a good fit. Think I'll keep looking around.

 

If you're concerned from what speedfreak78 stated...it's all up to the installer to get the skin covers tight and probably not in the product itself...

 

As FarmerFromKansas stated, Not that hard of a job to do - just time consuming to get it right. My 06 XLT had a cloth interior & the drivers seat was badly worn. I decided to get a Katzkin full leather replacement kit off eBay. If I remember correctly the entire kit was about $780. I bought a Ford drivers seat cushion that was about $125 at the time. From what I've read the cushions supplied by the Seat Shop are just as good for about 1/3 of the price. I bought a GOOD pair of Hog Ring Pliers - about $26 off eBay and package of 3/4" Stainless Hog Rings and went to town. The upholstery work itself took about 2 days but I spent a good week doing the job because while I had the seats out I removed the carpet and shampooed it, removed ALL the seatbelts and cleaned them, cleaned & repainted the seat tracks & brackets as needed etc. I also installed the seat covers outside in the summer when it was 105 Degrees out. While I was sweating like a pig the outside temps made it easy to stretch & work the wrinkles out of the upholstery. The next day I left the truck out in the heat with the windows up and about 3PM I went out and worked the last little wrinkles out. It came out perfect. You can also work the wrinkles out using your wife's hair drier but I felt it would be faster & easier to do it out in the scorching heat - just my opinion. I did this by myself and had no way of getting the back seat out so I disassembled it in the truck one section at a time. I've NEVER done any upholstery prior to this. I just watched the Seat Shop upholstery videos and went to work. I think I was about 64 at the time, so I was no spring chicken. After doing my truck, I've since done the drivers seat & cushion on a friends F-150 & the drivers cushion on my sons Dodge truck. The Dodge was the easiest. All Velcro - no Hog Rings.

 

My install followed this almost exactly. Very pleased and I never considered myself skilled at interior work. New carpet and sound insulation too.

 

David h, Beautiful job! I like the 2 tone seats. I kept with the single tone grey with perforated center section.

 

Nice David H. Where didyou buy your replacment covers?

 

I got my Katzkins from a place called ShopSAR.

 

I got my Katzkins from a place called ShopSAR. I got my drivers side seat foam cushion from the Seat Shop.