What's the seat cover to have these days?

[bennylava]

Hi all, I'm looking for a new cover for my bench seat.

[bennylava]

I already have the hog ring pliers and hog rings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN5RD3dlh9g

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[TKCR]

The covers in your first post are just slip covers. They are not the same as an actual seat cover upholstery, like the LMC video.
Which BTW, I would not recommend a cover from LMC. Those are all made by ACME and the quality is just not very good.

[bennylava]

How about these? Never heard of the company

[TKCR]

Originally Posted by bennylava

How about these? Never heard of the company though. Seem pretty inexpensive, makes you question the quality:

Clicking on that link, they sell a bunch of misc items. Never saw the covers, but wasn’t going to spend much time looking there.

So the question is, are you wanting a slip cover? Or are you wanting an actual seat upholstery cover? There is a difference. And cheap isn’t always better.

Slip covers are just that. They slip on over your existing seat, and you just tie them down. They are just meant to be a protective cover for your seat. A lot of people like them to cover up the destroyed seat that they have, or to protect the new upholstery cover that was installed on their seat. Myself, I hate them things. But that’s just my opinion of them, lol.

The actual seat upholstery cover is made specifically for our seats. They can be a handful to install onto the seat. They are meant to be tight, to the point you feel like they are not going to fit. These also get hog ringed to the frame. To install one of theses, the seat needs to be removed from the truck and taken apart and the old cover removed. This is the perfect time to inspect and repair any seat frame issue you may find. I find issues on almost every seat I strip down for restoration. Some people will throw a new cover on the frame the have. I wouldn’t recommend that, because I see all the issues that are hiding under that old cover & foam. It would be like spending a bunch of money on painting your truck, but painting over top of bubbling rust and not fixing any of the rust before painting. Seems like a waste of money, but some people actually do that. Like to ole saying “putting lipstick on a pig”.

[bennylava]

Already own the pliers and the rings. The first time we made a pattern out of the old seat and sewed it up from scratch using material normally used on church pews. The next time it was bought from LMC and it didn't even make it 2 full years.

[lukeembry]

Here is a cover from Holley, nice cover. I’ve used USA1 covers also and don’t see much difference. The big difference is Holley will likely have many in stock ready to ship unlike USA1.

[cwcarpenter98]

I went ahead and removed that picture and any links left over to that scammer's site. We don't want that stuff here, so thanks for digging into it more. I hope you find a real nice seat cover!