hey guys today im going to take my seats apart and wash the covers in the machine. I will take photos of how to do it and if i get enough yeah's during the day i will write a guide on how to do it. beleive it or not i can be done in a matter of hours and refitted by the end of the day. i dont want to write a guide if nobody will use it so what do you all say ?

i wouldnt mind knowing how to do this as my passanger seat hasnt been the same since my sunroof leaked :bang:

Yer this would be cool to know what to do!

defo! guide would be brilliant!

yeah that would be awesome as my car is mint inside just want to wash the seats, and it beats paying valeters 30 to shampoo everything , i can use the 30 to buy cleaning products or to wards the window tint

any news on the guide yet dude ? am eagaly waiting for this one lol

give the lad a chance

lol

I see someone else was going to do it before I did, anyway it's up now, I'm just adding to this post in case anyone finds it via the search facility.

can the seats even be taken apart? tbh i scrubbed mine with a brush and a warm bucket of water with daz, lenor, vanish mixed into it and it brought the seats up like brand new, i thought the seats were sewed shut or something like that???

although im interested as my drivers seat has snapped from the headrest to 1/4 down the main body of the seat, really annoying and wont do wonders if im in a crash if i can dismantle the seat i could get it welded up and refit it all?

cheers

sam

As he said in his post he has just put up a guide: https://www.fiatforum.com/cinquecen...9878-strip-clean-repair-your-seats-gars2.html

Only read the first bit of it but it looks fairly comprehensive.

Yes, sorry I didn't explain myself very well, a guide is up, and yes you will be able to weld your seat no problem.

The only reason I didn't try the 'daz and a bucket' approach was I thought once the foam got wet it wouldn't dry out too easily; however based on I've just read that seems like a good way for the not too badly soiled seat.

first off... excellent guide! thanks a lot!

i went for the daz and bucket approach as i was told the seat covers might shrink with washing and make them impossible to refit, and i thought the seats were sewn/stapled shut

i still have the problem of a snapped top 1/3 of my sei abarth seat, ill get a cinq seat, fit that in for a while and repair my old seat in my spare time, are the plastic clips off the cover removeable? id like to machine wash the cover, they are very clean but i think i could get them even cleaner

and you are right about cleaning them with a bucket of soapy water and a brush. main problem is drying them out, also i had to keep rinsing and saturate the seat as every time i applied pressure, the foam pushed more dirty water through the covers

have you done the back seats? how easy are they? to be honest i want to remove my back seat, get the seat fabric/foam off, drill and tap the metal to bolt an amp to the back of it.

bit miffed that i threw my old cinq seats out now, would have come in handy lol

sam