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Covering cracks in vinyl seat

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Offline keith

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Covering cracks in vinyl seat
« on: September 14, 2004, 01:37:40 PM »
My Tracker has had seat covers since I bought it last year.  Today it got caught out in the rain topless and the covers got soaked, so I removed them.  The original seats are in okay condition except that the driver lower cushion has large craks in the vinyl.  How can I fix this in a way that won't get icky in the future.  I know I could put tape over it but I think that would get sticky and nasty in time.

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Re: Covering cracks in vinyl seat
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2004, 07:56:27 PM »
New seat covers or re-upholster with cloth
instead of vinyl, my stock cloth seats are
still in really nice condition, just need cleaned

I used to sell a vinyl repair stuff in a tool
store, I don't remember what it was called,
but it was clear and dried really tough

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Offline trackermad

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Re: Covering cracks in vinyl seat
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2004, 01:33:09 AM »
I have a set of factory cloth seat upholstry that I just took out of mine.  Its dark grey on the outside with the southwestern print on the inside.  Interested?
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Offline keith

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Re: Covering cracks in vinyl seat
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2004, 01:44:56 AM »
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I have a set of factory cloth seat upholstry that I just took out of mine.  Its dark grey on the outside with the southwestern print on the inside.  Interested?


How difficult is it to reinstall the upholstry?  From what I've read about putting leather upholstry in a car it sound like more than I want to attempt with all the hogrings and such.
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Offline trackermad

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Re: Covering cracks in vinyl seat
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2004, 01:49:51 AM »
Well I just recovered mine and it wasnt bad.  If you dont want to deal with Hog rings the small zip tyes work as a real easy substitute.  It took me about 45 min to a seat.  Its not really hard at all.  It just takes a little time.
"First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so."  ~Bertrand Russell