i got a seat from a junk yard and i need to find somewhere to reupholster it if anyone has any suggestions or the price that it might cost

 

My seat is in good condition but is sagging a little on the top. I'm getting it reupholstered for $200 by a really good shop. Price includes high quality leather-like vinyl and fixing the padding so it is in like-new shape. It'll be more expensive if you want to use original materials and such as they might be harder to find.

 

where do you live or where is the shop located?

 

Well it's down here in San Antonio, Texas. That won't be of much use to ya, was just trying to help with the pricing.

 

well ya not much but my dad lives n Alvin, Texas but that would probably cost more to ship it and everything then to actually have it done....but thank you i appreciate the information

 

Any upholstery place can do that .
Do you have any boat places around ? they do upholstery on boats all the time.

Look on the net for an upholstery kit, then just have someone put it on.

IMO, Doing a bench seat will be a couple of hundred bucks.

The labour to put a kit on a seat would cost about $50.00.

Better yet, is find a nice seat from a truck up to 1996 and just install that.

You can get used bench seats for $50.00

 

thanks ur a big help you've helped me out like 2 times n 1 day

 

It all depends on the condition of the foam, springs, and frame and if you have them buy a kit, or sew it themselves, if you have welting put in like some original seats have, or if you make that obsolete, if you have triple stitch or not, if you have pleating put in or not, or if you have them incooperate a special theme to it.

I haven't worked on many 70's Ford bench seats, I have worked on several years of Ford seats that the rear vertical bars in the frame often break, or things like that. It all really just depends on the condition of the seat and if it has been wet a lot or not. I'm used to working on 60's and older spring seats that require a lot of spring repair do to they got wet, or they had mice in them or the latest was a seat we decided was in a car that was wrecked do to sever twisted frames and spotwelds broke on a 1955 Chevy split bench seat. I have noticed that the newer seats aren't as strong so if it is a work truck, i would not go with a 96 or newer seat because we just had a 2000 F-250 back in for the 3rd time, it's a coop truck so it gets a lot of use. Just depends on what you use the truck for.

Make sure you do it right the first time though, had to redo a 68 GTO's interior since the people that did it the first time didn't quite understand how everything was supposed to go together, or they cut things in the wrong places.