Car seat construction.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

I'm attempting to remove the leather faced cover from one of the front seats in my old Rover - the leather has split.

I've got as far as getting the sides of the cover free from the main foam body, but there appears to be a wire frame embedded in the foam which the cover is attached to using (thinner) wire loops. I could just cut these - but wondered if I'm missing something obvious?

The wire frame is beneath the stitched joints between the side bolters and central part - presumably to give that nice tight sculptured look?

[Jonno]

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[Scott M]

Hog rings. They should unbend to release themselves. It might be that they're rolled around so the break is buried in the form to avoid damaging the leather.

They do sell special pliers IIRC, but I've done it with an ordinary pair of pointy nosed ones.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Right - there were others similar I've undone using as you say pointy nosed pliers. But these are buried deep in the foam. I did wonder if the 'rods' would pull out of the foam - but can't see a way of doing this.

Think I'm going to plan B. To repair the splits in the existing leather, rather than attempting to stitch in new panels.

I can now get at the back of the leather where the splits are which makes it easier to fit reinforcing fabric across the split. I bought a kit for this and did one in situ before - but the problem was pulling the split in the leather together, as well as fitting the repair patch to the back.