54 seat cover quesion hog rings or clips?
 

Rapidly running out of $$ on the rebuild and down to DIY upholstery. The covers are a bit short and cannot use the suppilied hog rings to attached to original locations. This is standard bench seat with the lowrer frome shaped like a "C" all arounf the bottom. Hog rings cannot be fully clamped onto the "C" . Anyone use "j" clamps? If so what size?

Re: 54 seat cover quesion hog rings or clips?
 

Let me be a liitle more clear. The little hog rings do not grap properly and may rip the cover up. I think if I can find some steel 1/2" wide by 3/8 diameter "c" clips i can attach the cover to the inside of the bottom frame. Problem now is where to get Am as rural as heck and can be 400 mile round trip to big city.

Re: 54 seat cover quesion hog rings or clips?
 

We came through Brookings on the way back from Trog in October. I remember laughing at the huge "Need Weed?" sign on the edge of town.

Can't help much on the question but did you maybe use some extra thick padding under the seat cover?

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I only remember clips on the front and side edges and hog rings on the back edge.

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The signs have gotten bigger and soon CA will go dopey as well. Sadly the insurance companies will have no qualms about raising car and homeowners premiums accordingly.

The padding is actually much less than required by instructions that came with the kit. As reported by others. the covers were made way too short by accident or to cheap out. No amount of heating and stretching is helping will help. In process of paying shop to add 3" all the way around.

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I was going to suggest the same, add a couple inches of material to the cover. That would only take a couple of minutes for someone that has a sewing machine. Should be a cheap fix. I used hog rings, but I made my own cover. Good Luck