Quality of slip on seat covers Vs Hog Ring

Oh and can I just add........ I think that the slip on covers might be out....I have just discovered something that has definately made me want to strip off the existing covers and start over.........brace yourself, this is disgusting. The seats that I was going to put into my bug (that have been in my shed for the last 4 months) are infested with cockroaches. And I am not talking the little ones, these are the giant ones and not just one or two......my boyfriend thought he had got them all off and I have been shaking and shaking the seats and they just keep on falling out!! I will absolutely freak out if one of these runs up my leg when I am driving along and most probably cause a very bad accident. So, how hard is it to fit the upholstery sets? I'd be interested to know if anyone has ever had a similar problem?

.................You need to strip those seats down to the bare frames. I've been contemplating the same work on my bug. The padding kits for the front & back, extra sisel padding, hog ring kit and and upholstery kit at Aircooled.Net will run almost $300 USD. Spray some paint on the frames after cleaning them up if they need it. I'm thinking that the job will take at least a couple of weekends for me. If you can afford it, matching door panels & rear side panels would be nice if replaced at the same time.

Yeah, those hair stuffed seats are great homes for creatures. I usually find dead mice, usually babies in the seats.

You wanna get rid of cockroaches? Put a Trantula in the car for a month. Then just vacuum the tiny spider turds. Don't sit on the Trantula.

Or take the seats out, put each one in a big plastic bag and pour a whole box of mothballs in there. Let sit for a week. They be dead. Ya don't have to remove 'em. They dry up and don't smell.

...I had my seats redone in modern car-seat foam. No critters like that stuff.

Thanks for that, mmmm not sure about the Tarantula option but the moth balls could be a goer.....cheers.

I got the slip on covers.

They go on easy if you put a plastic 30 gallon leaf bag over the seat frame first.

I guess you want the foam padding and do away with the horse hair padding.

I think you are supposed to put sisal cloth or hop sack cloth over the frames before you add the padding.

If the frames are bent you might want to get them welded in the correct position first.