Leather Kit Install
03-03-2008, 07:27 AM
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Leather Kit Install
This is my first post. This site is great. Very informative. I have been browsing it for the past few months before becoming a member.
Here is my question; I am looking at a leather kit on Ebay for my ram. My concern is doing the install myself. I don't see there being any problems with taking the seats out. The areas that concern me are around the head rests and the headrests themselves. I am a little worried about getting the cloth off of the headrests. What did you guys do about the headrests? Do you have to cut the cloth at the seams? Also the middle console concerns me. I have the 40/20/40 front seats set-up. Any of you guys put one of these leather kits in yourself? How hard was it? Was it hard to do the headrests? What about the grommets around where the headrests fits into the seat? Were they hard to get out? How did you handle that area? The kit is a complete replacement and does not go over the cloth. Thanks in advance for any help or insight that you might can give.
-Mo
Here is my question; I am looking at a leather kit on Ebay for my ram. My concern is doing the install myself. I don't see there being any problems with taking the seats out. The areas that concern me are around the head rests and the headrests themselves. I am a little worried about getting the cloth off of the headrests. What did you guys do about the headrests? Do you have to cut the cloth at the seams? Also the middle console concerns me. I have the 40/20/40 front seats set-up. Any of you guys put one of these leather kits in yourself? How hard was it? Was it hard to do the headrests? What about the grommets around where the headrests fits into the seat? Were they hard to get out? How did you handle that area? The kit is a complete replacement and does not go over the cloth. Thanks in advance for any help or insight that you might can give.
-Mo
03-03-2008, 07:35 AM
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Your ONLY concern IMO is the center console, I had trouble w/ mine, if I had 4 hands it would have been easier. The headrests are easy. The grommets pop right out. Go for it.
03-03-2008, 12:06 PM
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Mindy,
It depends on how nice you want and what kind of quality you want as well. The kit I am looking at is $400 plus shipping. ALI will rin you about $550 and Katkinz will run you close to $1000. Also in the latter two I mentioned you can get two tone.
It depends on how nice you want and what kind of quality you want as well. The kit I am looking at is $400 plus shipping. ALI will rin you about $550 and Katkinz will run you close to $1000. Also in the latter two I mentioned you can get two tone.
03-03-2008, 07:14 PM
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I have the ALI kit and have for 2 years and 50k miles. still looks new. it took me about an hour to install except for the back of the back seat which requires a couple of bolts be taken out, total time was about 2 hours. the match was perfect with my console already which was leather so I didnt have to change out the bottom part of it, I did change out the leather on the lid of the console, it was easy.....
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Be patient.... I bought a entire front and back seat brand new for $1,000. I will look up the seller info to give to you and see if he can get you one. He said he had several. I went from manual cloth with a full bench to all power leather, 40/60 back seat and brand new. Shipped it was $1200 total....
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03-05-2008, 09:44 PM
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modiesel, here are the tips your looking for: Don't take the front seats out, just remove covers and reinstall. As for the headreasts, pull them out of seat, remove old. Make sure the leather ones are WARM, heat them up in sun or blow dryer or something and take your time, they will go on, just not easy. As for removing the center console, the way I did it was to remove the lid and take a razor blade and cut the seams. Then install leather. Not hard to do at all. As with the headrests, the warmer the leather the easier the stuff will go on. Installing is not hard per se, just time consuming. I think it took me about 6 hours to do my megacab. If you need anymore help, feel free to PM me. I bought my kit off ebay for about $400 also, I believe the seller was soundsourceinc or something like that.