I simply wanted to restore my front seats then change the color of my center console, steering wheel & cover, all the wood grain, parking brake & cover. I'll apologize in advance for so many pics.

Front driver seat had unsightly tears that needed fixing which I patched by using Flexible Liquid Stitch ($7. eBay) & tan vinyl from fabric store (1/8 of a yard - $.82 cents.) Now I needed a coating & SEM kept coming up as a leather restoring option, so I ran with it. Per forum search seems that Light Neutral 15863 was the match for our tan interiors. Purchased 2 cans ($9. ea plus s&h - $25.) Prepped the seats by cleaning thoroughly with Totally Awesome ($1. Dollar Tree), then using Denatured Alcohol ($5. Wal-Mart), once it dried I sprayed using the can gun ($1.) which wastes nothing & gives uniform even coverage.

SEM Satin Black 15243 ($13 - SEM told me local Philly Sherwin Williams that sells their products) was used to coat my center console, steering wheel, wood grain, & parking brake.

I did about 3 coats & the results were better than great, it was legendary! All told it costs $53, wow!

tools for the transformation


my drivers seat before some spots has liquid stitch no patches yet




After spraying of 3 coats before total drying, transition phase




passenger before




passenger transition phase




seats in transition side by side - this shot is cool


doors before


doors transition, other looks the same


center console before


steering wheel before


time to bring it all together

drivers seat today






passenger seat today






doors today


steering wheel, center console, wood grain, parking brake black


everything included shot

 

Nice job, your happy and so is your wallet, and the results are very good

 

close ups of where the leather was torn? I'm VERY impressed by how well that turned out!

 

Very nice!

 

I didn't get how you fixed those huge tears with paint? How's that possible?

 

I know right!? you made it look like new! Can you go over the process again in detail for us slow people lol

 

I believe he used liquid stitch to apply patches and then painted over the patches.

 

niiiiice restoration!

 

Wow that came out great. I guess I'm going with SEM when I do my interior too!

 

im liking the black on tan here. nice work!

 

looks good! now let's see how long it will withstand time. Oh and is it smearing on your clothes at all?

 

how the hell did u fix the seats????

 

I did the same thing last year and my results were the same. SEM is simply the best. Your results also turned out great. I still get compliments about how my interior looked before and after. Now its time to do the carpet and mats, if you have them.

I used plastic filler and bondo to repair all of my palstics. I used poxy to repair all of the broken tabs and imperfections. For little touch ups, I used a black Sharpie.. Like new again.

 

Absolutely incredible. I think I found the answer to fixing my front seats. VERY nice.

Can you give a quick rundown of how you applied the patches and liquid stitch? It's amazing how you can't even see that anything was torn.

 

Looks very nice. I need to do some touch ups to my interior as well. Hope it comes out good likes yours.