Seat refurbishment

Athorpe · 29th August 2017, 22:11

Has anyone replaced the seat cushion and cover on the leather seats,
How much of a pain of a job is it , I'm not having much luck finding a good used seat and found covers and seat squab for £60 so if not to bad temped to overhaul mine

tommy15 · 30th August 2017, 09:17

Hi mate, it's a bit fiddly and you have to find all the little hooks and where they attach to. With a bit of heaving, pulling and shoving it's not too bad really. I had a set of mk1 leather manual seats in my 75 and then bought a mk2 to break. This one had the electric memory seats which i was going to swap straight over. I discovered that the mk1 seats were not only in far better condition but were much higher quality. solution, mk1 seat covers on mk2 seat frames

Tracker · 30th August 2017, 13:07

I've just assembled the parts to do the exact same changeover - i.e putting my existing Mk1 seat covers on to Mk2 electric frames. The Mk 1 seats have the plastic back board which also provides the rear facing pocket whereas the Mk 2 seats have no backboard and the pocket is incorporated into the seat squab cover. As far as I've so far been able to find out, there is no difference between Mk1 and Mk2 frames, so will the Mk1 covers fit OK on the Mk2 frames? Anything I should be aware of before starting to take them all apart?

e668ecp · 30th August 2017, 17:32

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Originally Posted by Tracker

I've just assembled the parts to do the exact same changeover - i.e putting my existing Mk1 seat covers on to Mk2 electric frames. The Mk 1 seats have the plastic back board which also provides the rear facing pocket whereas the Mk 2 seats have no backboard and the pocket is incorporated into the seat squab cover. As far as I've so far been able to find out, there is no difference between Mk1 and Mk2 frames, so will the Mk1 covers fit OK on the Mk2 frames? Anything I should be aware of before starting to take them all apart?

There is a slight difference in the way that there are clips to hold in the recessed "rear knee" bit on the MK2 seats. Easy to get around though. Going from MK1 to MK2 there should be no issues

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Tracker Loves to post MG ZT Join Date: Sep 2015 Location: Dunmow Posts: 350 Thanks: 139 Thanked 83 Times in 72 Posts	Seat refurbishment I've just assembled the parts to do the exact same changeover - i.e putting my existing Mk1 seat covers on to Mk2 electric frames. The Mk 1 seats have the plastic back board which also provides the rear facing pocket whereas the Mk 2 seats have no backboard and the pocket is incorporated into the seat squab cover. As far as I've so far been able to find out, there is no difference between Mk1 and Mk2 frames, so will the Mk1 covers fit OK on the Mk2 frames? Anything I should be aware of before starting to take them all apart?

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tommy15 Newbie mg zt Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: bray Posts: 20 Thanks: 0 Thanked 12 Times in 6 Posts	Hi mate, it's a bit fiddly and you have to find all the little hooks and where they attach to. With a bit of heaving, pulling and shoving it's not too bad really. I had a set of mk1 leather manual seats in my 75 and then bought a mk2 to break. This one had the electric memory seats which i was going to swap straight over. I discovered that the mk1 seats were not only in far better condition but were much higher quality. solution, mk1 seat covers on mk2 seat frames