How to Make Custom Car Seats

Custom car seats will make your car standout and get noticed. Unfortunately, a custom car seat installation is highly expensive. However, if you have the ability to operate a sewing machine, you have the skills necessary to make your own custom car seats.

How to Make Custom Car Seats:

Step 1: Using a seam ripper, carefully remove your existing car seats. Do not attempt to remove your existing car seats quickly. This will only cause the fabric to rip into pieces. By removing the fabric carefully, it will remain in one piece, allowing you to use it as a pattern for your new seats.

Step 2: Open the side seams of the fabric you removed from your car seats. Turn this fabric inside out and lay it across the new fabric you will use for your custom car seats. Begin pinning the old fabric to the new fabric with pins. Pin all the way around the outline of your old fabric.

Step 3: Using good quality scissors cut all the way around the pinned area. Ensure that your scissors are well sharpened before you begin cutting, in order to prevent gapping and snagging of the fabric.

Step 4: Sew the new custom car seat pattern together. Realize that if you are using leather, you cannot use a traditional sewing machine to connect this fabric. A heavy-duty sewing machine is required.

Step 5: Install your new custom car seats. Pull them down from the top of the car seat and then across the seat. Using upholstery tacks secure your new custom car seats.