How to repair a leather car seat rip/hole on an E36 BMW M3 Evolution Sponsored by Big Seven Save money: www.bigseven.co.uk Make money: www.bigsevenmoney.co.uk.
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sounds crazy but it works
At least you tried, looks like it took many hours or days. I think those do
it yourself kits make it worse,the color never matches. And it’s crazy to
put dirt on the seat to get the color right. I would spend the hundred
pounds to get it done right.
Great job! The results came out excellent, with the least amount of cash
laid out.
Question, though… why not just apply the color to the whole seat and
refresh the color overall, instead of weathering the bolster? Did the kit
come with enough? If you were to do that, how would you?
Good effort, on any other colour leather and without the red stitching
would have worked better.
Always clean the seat
only then can you repair the seat
then clean again then the color of the chair mix
Cleaning is the most important part of this!!!!!!!!
sounds crazy but it works
Dude this video should be banned
fair play to you for having the guts to do it…. a leather repairer would
give you a better colour match but charge you 30x what you have spent for a
diy job, i’m impressed and ignore the comments from muppets who only drive
their mum’s car 🙂 JJ
Whats the leather repair kits you used,Couldnt really hear which one,s you
used.Cheers
hi, i would like to ask you how much paint do i need to repaint one whole
seat? (pls use some unit, i am from slovakia so we are using metric units
but i can recalculate)
Yes. Unfortunately unlike Top Gear I am not uniquely funded by the tax
payer. I have to buy, review, film myself, edit myself then upload and sell
the car to get enough money to pay my expenses and try and do the whole
thing again! At DCG1 we a planning a massive channel overhaul that will
ultimately boast a 7 show line-up. If you know of and sponsors that would
be interested let me know. 😉
I love how this guy is so nice to hate comments. So professional! Thank you
for the video 🙂
Yes of course! Simply cover your ‘cloth’ seats with the ‘man made’ filler
then once fully applied and allowed to soak right in it transforms the
‘cloth’ seats into the skin of a dead cow. When you try that ‘please’ video
your effort for the DCG1 fans to enjoy. Thanks for watching.
NICE CAR!
Excellent
I think for a first timer in leather repairing you did well. It seems like
quite a task as I’m contemplating one myself. There is no shame in trying
to do things yourself. And the weathering part using dirt is probably
shocking to some but for people who make small scale modeling its an old
trick. You have done your best exploring all possibilities and we can learn
from that. And the seat looks better than before so good day to you and
thanks for sharing.
Background music can’t be taken off this video, however it only lasts for a
few seconds of the intro. If you persevere beyond that point you should
find that the rest of the video is acceptably audible. Many thanks for
watching and taking the time to comment.
Outstanding Job- I really liked your methodical, well thought out approach
to this project- I’m about to do the exact same thing, to the exact same
area, of my Infiniti I30! Wish me luck! BTW- The tarnishing touch was
ballsy as hell- but no risk no reward eh bro?
Fuck everyone else. I think you did a find job for what tools you had, and
cheap. guess you could spend thousands repairing it the right way…
Very helpful. I’ve got a tear in almost the exact same place on the
driver’s side seat in my Mazda Miata. Thanks.
03:00 sry mate, but first thing to do is turn off the ignition i think!
*Cartman’s voice* In the ghetto…in the ghettoooooh xD
well if it’s already got a burn hole in it you’ve got nothing to lose. Give
a repair a go. If it goes wrong then you’re no worse off than you are now.
Go for it! SUBSCRIBE to be kept up to date. Thanks for watching.
Hey, not a bad job on the fill of the hole itself. A little more time
filling in with the leather filler to blend and you would of had a stand up
job! 1 thing that will help if you ever decide to do this again is
isopropyle alcohol before you laid down the leather fill then another wipe
down with it after you’ve sanded. A layer of some adhesion promoter then
your paint and you are all set. You did a very good job for a home kit
though!!
Improvisation is the handmaiden of backyard tinkering.
Hi Xavi, Send me an email at sales@vinylpro.com with your city and I’ll see
who we may be able to refer you to. Mark
Good video
good job!
What is the name of the repair kit that you used… what kind of glue is
it? Cheers
Did you watch through to the end? I think my reasoning was logical but
please feel free to attach a video response of your efforts showing us how
it should be done. I’m always willing to learn. Thanks for watching.
lol. You live and learn. I do all the filming myself. So I set the camera
running then stand in front of it. I didn’t realise until i came to edit
the video the then engine noise was so intrusive, but by then it’s too
late. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
mud lmao shuld have cleaned the seats up to match
Thanks for the positive feedback. With regards to the ‘haters’; well, I
guess it’s easier to hide behind the anonymity of a user name from the
comfort of ones home and ridicule someone else’s effort than to put ones
self out there and actually have a go. It is safer not to have a go but
it’s also less fulfilling. Thanks for watching and taking the time to
comment.
You’re welcome. Very glad I was instrumental in empowering you to give it a
try. Thanks for watching.
can I use this same stuff to make all my cloth seats into leather one’s?
Thanks! By the way why is your car running?
Yea I know from experience I would of cleaned the two front seats bringing
them back to the original color.
us cif cleaning product on the dirty leather,cleans it up like new pal
Pretty good job, mate. Tip of the hat to you for using your head to figure
out a way to innovate a repair job on the cheap. Cheers
now, that’s a really, realy bad repair. hope no one will take your advices
seriously.
i guess assuming the beginning of the video is relatively important
whats kits did you use?
WHO ELSE COULDNT SKIP THE COMMERCIAL BECAUSE BROOKE BURKE WAS IN IT ?
I think you did a real good job…I found a XJ6 over here in NY and I am
going to patch it after seeing you do it. Great detailed video mate! Cheers
from the US…
I was a bit worried myself. But I needed to find a way to age the leather
or go through the process of making the rest of the car look like new,
which I wasn’t about to do. I figured that worst case scenario I’d just
wash it off and try something else. Luckily it worked quite well. They do
say that necessity is the mother of invention!