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INSTRUCTIONS
You may need the following items with some leather packages.
First you need to remove your seats. Each car is different so pay attention to how your individual interior is. Start with the front seats. The seats are bolted to the floor by 4 or more bolts. Usually the seats are easy to remove from your car. Look at your seats and determine how they are installed so that you can remove them. Be careful because you can damage your seats and interior if you are careless when you remove and install your seats. Pay careful attention and look for any wires and cables that you will need to detach or unplug, especially if you have power seats, seat heaters, or seat massagers. All these cables are usually under the seat. Next you will have to remove any bolts holding the seat to the floor. Now you can begin taking the rear seats out of the vehicle. Your rear seat, which is usually a bench seat, should be easily removed. You might have to remove the side door or even floor panels to get to any bolts or screws attaching the rear seat. You can also find bolts near the upper left and right sides of the rear seating area. The rear seat may be in to separate parts, the back support and the bottom cushion. You might have to take one off before you can access the bolts for the other part.
When you have finished clipping the hog-rings off from the foam cushion, then pick up the cloth and clip the hog rings that are in the center areas. Now take out any metal rods that were in the original cloth and put them in the same places in the leather interior. Next you begin to hog ring the metal rods into the foam cushion with the leather interior. Then attach the edges of the leather with hog rings to the cushion, Finally attach the outer skirting of the leather seat cover to the bottom of the seat cushion. IT MAY BE NECESSARY TO MAKE HOLES IN YOUR NEW LEATHER INTERIOR WO THAT YOU CAN MATCH UP WHERE THE OLD HOG RINGS POSITIONS WERE. DO NOT MAKE THESE HOLES WITH A TOOL, JUST USE THE HOG RINGS THEMSELVES. THEY WILL GO THROUGH THE LEATHER AS YOU ATTACH THEM WITH YOUR HOG RING PLIERS. Now that the rear seats are done you can begin on the front seats. Front seats are usually bucket seats. so they are a little harder than the rear seats. The bottom cushions are easily removable and the leather is usually installed the same way the rear seats were. The tops are usually pulled over and then attached on the bottom with hog rings, the same way the cloth was attached. Use enough hog rings and use them where the original ones were. If you don't use enough hog rings the leather may not fit as tightly as it should. Especially around the metal rods. If you attach hog rings to close to the edge of the leather it may rip so be careful. Now that your leather is attached to your seats you can reassemble your seats by putting them back into your vehicle. Don't forget any cables or wires that you unplugged.
Door Panels are always the hardest part of your installation process. You door panels will either be an oversized sheet of vinyl or leather that is attached to a fabric. Remove the whole door panel from the door of your vehicle. Each car has the door panels attached to the door differently. You will have to figure out how to remove it. We recommend that you leave the cloth on your door panels. It will make your installation look smother and more professional. Lay the door panel flat and locate the correct piece of door panel material. Line up the material over the original cloth. Use the headliner-stuffing tool and begin to push the insert down in to the crevices all the way around the cloth insert. Now you will have an idea of how much of the door panel insert will need to be trimmed off. Trim the insert carefully so that you do not cut it to short. After you have trimmed the edges do a final stuffing of the edges and make sure they tuck nicely and that you do not see any edges of material. Lift off the door insert that you had just properly fitted and cut. Tape off the edges of the door panel so that you do not get glue on your door panels. Shake the can or spray adhesive and apply a coat of glue to the underside of the door insert (vinyl or leather) and the cloth on your door panel. Let it dry or get tacky - this takes about 2 minute. Now apply a second coat in an the opposite spraying direction. Wait another 2 minutes and then apply a third coat. The last coat should really get tacky so wait at least 5 minutes. Now you can install the vinyl or leather insert. Be sure to place the leather insert correctly on the cloth insert so that it does not wrinkle. Now you need to quickly stuff the edges of the door insert into the crevices - be sure no edges show. Let the insert dry for at least 2 hours before you install your door panel back into the vehicle. Be careful of the fumes from the glue. You can now remove the tape and wipe the inserts clean. You can use gasoline it will not harm vinyl or leather. IT WILL DAMAGE PLASTIC - DO NOT GET GASOLINE ON ANY PLASTIC.
Now sit back and
enjoy your new interior.
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