seat covers vs upholstery kits

[btoran]

IAP sells both. what's the difference between the two (especially in terms of installation)?

[narfire]

Personally I would go for the upholstery kit. I never worked on seats before and wanted to change the covers from a clapped out tan to black so I went at it myself. Not difficult really and gave me a chance to clean up the pans and swap out some tired foam. The most difficult part of the evolution was actually removing the rear allen bolts from the seat track.
I think they look better than the seat covers on a parts car I have.
Chris

[81SPIDERMATT]

upholstery kit will be the more labor intensive of the 2 .... but well worth the effort

[spidernut]

The IAP seat covers look O.K. when installed. They add a bit of padding to the seat, so my wife found them more comfortable than without the seat covers. A friend has them installed on his car. He said installation was really, really simple.

Upholstery kits are a different story altogether. I've installed the ones from World Upholstery but not IAP. It took me about 2-3 hours to remove the old seat upholstery and install the new upholstery. The seat bottoms were extremely easy to install. The seat backs were much more difficult, but still not that bad. The headrests were a royal pain in the butt.

The end result looks like this:

[btoran]

john - nice results! so the covers simply slip over the existing seats (which already have their own upholstery), while the upholstery sets are designed to be put over the raw foam (ie you must remove the existing upholstery first)?

[81SPIDERMATT]

john - nice results! so the covers simply slip over the existing seats (which already have their own upholstery), while the upholstery sets are designed to be put over the raw foam (ie you must remove the existing upholstery first)?

YES