we have almost completely rebuilt our 73 with your helpful videos..interior and all...

Great video! I'm SO glad I watched this video before attempting recover project. I usually watch videos to find out where I f'd up!!

This is just what I needed to finish off my seats. The cover was loose and I wanted to re-fit the cover. I found a broken tang and will use a self tapping screw as you suggest. I wondered what that bit of silver metal was right at the end of the video - it fell off under the seat before I took out of the seat off the car and had me scratching my head as to what the heck it was. BTW I used some thin wire instead of the string to give it more strength. Thanks so much for your help and time!!

excellent video! Tip that I've seen guys do,when you tie the string off,have a buddy sit on the seat,and the tie off will be secure for years.

nice video chris a and tony. Good to see you guys getting into these. I have been doing uneditied stuff for years. little ad money never hurt anybody anyway...

This is just what I need to see before starting my Thing seats.... much easier than I imagined.

Again, yet another useful edition to the repository of knowledge

Greatly appreciated buddy. You're a saint and scholar

I'm glad you mentioned seat tracks. My seats are appropriate for the tracks, but I cant get them to slide on. Any tips?

By the way, I loved the video, just what I needed. Thanks for sharing!

great great video, where did you order the basket-weave fabric from and what color is that?

Great job, thanks for sharing

I own a 1971 Super Bug, and have just replaced the driver seat padding and also fitted a new coconut fiber base. I noticed that you had re-upholstered the same type of seat base. I just wish that you had shown also - an easy way of re-attaching the Seat Back with headrest built-in. The rear of the seat base at the narrowest point is 440mm. But the two arms of the seat Backrest are only 400mm! I have done this once before, by using a very large G - Clamp and two pieces of thick plywood. I find that I need to 'crush' the newly - upholstered seat base, by 40mm, in order to get the arms for the seat backrest to pass over. It would have been great if you could have done a short video on just refitting the Seat Backrest, and how to do this without causing trauma to the new Seat Base. There really must be a better way than my 'brutal' method! Thanks for a great, helpful video. Greetings from Australia.

Good stuff. Thanks for sharing!

Good video.....thanks for the tips!!!

just what i needed i was gonna rebuild my 68 seat next paycheck

Chris, zig zag spring replace, have yu ever? I bought new straight ones on Amazon. The problem is trying to bend them back to oneself to create the 45° spring action affect. Any help would be appreciated. Maybe a torch to heat them. This is tough steel

what material did you use for the first layer at 3:14

Beautiful job Chris!

Looking to reupholster my seats very soon. I hate the original seat padding they use. It leaves a mess when it gets old.

Auto Zone no longer carries the thin black carpet. Just tried to get some. Discontinued.

Chris, i need some advice please..my 73 dual port beetle..has a generator thats slightly loose..i didnt want to just tighten the belt without addressing the alternator/generator being loose..(when i give it gas it doesnt shake)..the generator has about a 1/4 inch of play in it..and i know if i tighten the belt it will go away..but that doesnt solve the "genny" from being loose..how can i get the play out of the generator??..i didnt want to mess with it until i hear from you..thanks again..

Great video! What did you use for the under layer? If you said it, I missed it. Thanks! I did my back seat awhile back and I guess I used sisal. That looks like leather... (?)

I used the same horsehair (coconut fiber) pads as the guy in the video. The problem was not with the pads--they were perfect. The issue I had was my seat springs--although not broken--had sagged somewhat over a forty-year period. The result was the seat covers looked a tad too large in the sitting area. Not much--but not perfect. The fix would have been to top off the horsehair pad with a one-inch high-density foam pad. Two inches would have overstuffed it, and I would have gotten a seat that looked more like ... well? ... and overstuffed seat. We've all seen those. But a good one-inch high density pad would have filled out the sag issue perfectly.

Where do we buy the premade upholstery?

what was that od smell the old seats gave off during the summer did they use ground up horses hair for the stuffing

I thought this would show how to cu;t and sew the upholstery. Do you ever do that?

where do you buy the seat springs from?

Some of my springs are broken. I wish he would have addressed that in the video. Good video anyway.

How can I clean the coconut fiber? mine, is in good shape, but it smells rack urine. I could not figure out what kind of pliers he is using.

What about when the seat bottom sags to one side? How do you fix that?

Thanks, thumbs ^

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