After refurbishing the seat frames a couple of years ago, I was amazed at the price of these replacement chintzy vinyl seat covers. So, I slapped the old covers back on, hosed them down with some vinyl lube, and called it a day. Here we are, with past problems announcing their...
After sitting through the winter, the battery in the beetlebug was dead. After having the car for two years, this is only the third time the battery has gone flat. The first time was actually not from a lack of use at all. I was in the habit of starting the car up and letting...
After failing to vinyl wrap the old dash pad the first time, I ordered a new dash pad, which didn't fit. So... Plan B was always to try wrapping the vinyl again. There's lots of leftover glue on there. I ordered some new vinyl (Amazon link), which took a while to get here and...
I ordered a license plate housing gasket to replace the old, dry, cracked, and broken unit. Let's add that to the "Easy Wins" list. And then replaced it. As I was trying to unscrew the nuts from underneath the engine cover, every one of them just unscrewed the stud from the co...
In what I promise is the last post about refinishing the seats, we move on to the rear seat back. Disassembly It is closed back, kind of a fiber board material with a vinyl coating on the outside. There are metal trim pieces screwed on to the top and bottom edges. They unscrew...
The Spring Tease has passed and we're back into cold, wet weather, so I moved the seat refinishing operations from the front porch to the basement. I laid down a silver Harbor Freight tarp to catch some of the mess and over spray and began the process of refinishing the rear s...
I'm still waiting for the roll of high density foam (Amazon link) to arrive for the back seats, but it's a beautiful day, so I decided to get some prep work done. As you can see, the back seat covers have similar issues to the front. At one point in the past, I leaned in throu...
After last weekend's front seat refinishing progress in Inside the Driver's Seat and Driver's Seat Part 2, I had been looking forward to the weekend, to be able to dig back in to refinishing the seats. Saturday was a rain out, but Sunday was a sunny treat. I pulled the front p...
It's day 2 of the driver's side front seat rebuild. Patching the vinyl seat covers Once the roll of vinyl repair stuff (Amazon link) arrived, I got started patching up the seat covers. I picked up some Gorilla Clear Grip (Amazon link). The package says to use it like E6000, so...
The weather app said it was 54 degrees today and the sun was blazing. Beautiful! I watched a couple of videos about how to remove the front seats and it's really quite easy. Simply lift the lever and slide it all the way forward. There are many references I found to a locking...