how to upholster car seats

Seats in an automobile may show signs of serious wear and tear long before you are ready to trade in a perfectly good car. It is a relatively simple project to remove the old upholstery and replace it with new fabric that will breathe new life into the interior of your automobile. By following some basic principles you can learn to upholster different fabric on car seats and replace the old fabric with new fabric.

1. Step 1

   Remove the seats to be reupholstered from the automobile. Check for bolts under the seats that will have to be loosened to remove the seats. Use the tools necessary to remove the seats.

2. Step 2

   Place the seats on a flat work surface (the ground is fine) and examine them to figure out how the fabric can be removed from the frame of the seat.

3. Step 3

   Find the staples that most likely attach the fabric to the seat frame and work them loose with the screwdriver and pliers.

4. Step 4

   Unroll the paper on your work surface and place the old seat fabric on top of the paper. Trace around the old fabric to make a pattern for the new seating fabric. Add in a 1 inch seam allowance to the pattern pieces.

5. Step 5

   Place the paper pattern on the new fabric and cut out the necessary pieces to recover the seats.

6. Step 6

   Drape the new fabric over the seats. Turn under the raw edges where they will be visible and begin to staple the new fabric to the auto seats in the same fashion as the old fabric was attached.

7. Step 7

   Place the seats back in the vehicle and tighten all bolts and hardware completely.