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Originally Posted by LoneWolfGal
Grant, how did you stretch the leather enough to wrap it so far around the edge of the plastic seat base? Looks like your covers have a whole lot more slack (or leather) than mine. And how did you fasten it after wrapping it around — staples?
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As Stiglitz sait it is a PITA. If I remember correctly it was the most difficult part of the installation. I was forced to get my girlfriend to help me. As I said in my thread...
"We started at the back on one side and worked our way around to the other side. The toughest part was the front and the secret was for one of us to push in the front of the foam to give some slack while the other rolled the the bead into place."
I think the important part is to compress the foam as much as possible by leaning on the cushion.
While I am making suggestions...
The biggest problem that I have with the covers is that the bead in the back of the seat was difficult to get seated and has tended to pull out of its channel. Both my seats are like this now and I have not had the time reseat them.
It is not only Lseat that has this problem, my friend Tony's 2000 Boxster has the same thing with his original Porsche leather seats.
You can perhaps see in the photo that I inserted a wire staple at the very top to hold the bead in place (This was done with the seat out of the car and before the seat back insert was installed). If I was to do it over again I would put staples or screws in a couple of strategic places to hold the bead in place.