Seat repair

gaz15

Failed my nct today due to the damage on the driver seat in the picture.

Seemed a bit petty as it's not really going to impact the driving of the car but anyway, what's the best way to go about getting it fixed?

A seat cover would hardly do the job? Can it be repaired or am I gonna have to I try and source another seat from a scrapyard?

Many thanks for any and all help.

Atlantic Dawn

I don't think a seat cover will help as they will check under it. Getting somone to fix it with new upholstery will be prohibitively expensive.

If the car is a common enough model you should try to source another seat at a scrapyard. If there's no side air bag in the seat or heated seats it's a relatively simple process, which should just require a basic socket set to take the old one out. What type of car is it?

gaz15

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

I don't think a seat cover will help as they will check under it. Getting somone to fix it with new upholstery will be prohibitively expensive.

If the car is a common enough model you should try to source another seat at a scrapyard. If there's no side air bag in the seat or heated seats it's a relatively simple process, which should just require a basic socket set to take the old one out. What type of car is it?

It's a 2004 Renault Clio. Yeah it's a pain a Keig, Probably best to try and get somebody to do a patch job on it. Unfortunately I'm not the handiest at that type of thing so trying to find somebody to do it will be a pain I'm sure.

shietpilot

I paid €20 for a seat in Kilcock Car Dismantlers. Just go down and get one!

Get the mother at it with a sewing needle, or get a hot glue gun and just glue the hole together and then glue the upholstery to the seat, just stretch it to meet.

On a car that age I wouldn't even be bothered going to the effort of buying a seat from a dismantlers, it obviously doesn't bother you so once its patched what can the nct say..

ION08

I can't believe that's a fail! :eek:

I would imagine sewing a patch over it should be enough?..

Jesus.

The more stories you hear like this the less faith you have in the NCT

Noccy_Mondy

Shove a bit of sponge into it, small bit of similar material and stitch it back up. They'd surely accept that!

Agricola

This can't be for real can it? A tear in the fabric is a fail!!

Me jeep has a horrible tear much bigger than that in the same spot. I can't justify a trip to the upholsterers so I just threw a black seat cover which doesnt really fit, on it. They never said a word.

Neilw

It failed because of the exposed metal where the foam has worn away.