Clazzio Seat Covers -- rear seat question

Jesse Melara · Nov 30, 2013

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Wooooo! New update for Tuesday.

DAY 2 -"Oh... That is what they meant by sore fingers (hands and wrists too)."

I didn't think I was going to be able to get any work done today due to bad weather. However, I woke up early to knock out what I could, and continued intermittently throughout the day as the weather allowed.

I've finished most of the rear except for 1 sidepost. My fingers, hands, and wrists are swollen, numb, red, and extremely sore. I have little abrasions and cuts all over from who knows where. However, it's a good kind of pain. I'm getting close to the finish line!

I chose to do the rear seats first because I expected it to be the hardest part. My expectations weren't wrong. Included in my Clazzio kit was a color printed instruction sheet. While it helped a little, a number of steps remained confusing.

For starters, it told me to unbolt the center most bolt of the passenger side rear seatbelt. If you look at the picture that I have attached, you will wonder why the center most bolt (right bolt in the picture) and not just the bolt farthest to the right (left bolt in the picture) of the car as you face forward.

However, this is sort of an optical illusion. The only bolt that can actually be loosened by a socket wrench is the center most bolt (right bolt in the picture). Why is this? The other bolt is secured on the flip side of the bracket with another bolt that has been welded in place (picture attached). I don't know how long I spent trying to loosen that welded bolt before I realized that there must be a reason the other bolt was specified. Sure enough, I saw the problem after I freed the seatbelt bolt and flipped the bracket.

A free like and my gratitude to anyone who can tell me what that hard, layered, silver material in the seatbelt picture is.

Back to the install... After it started raining harder, I decided to save time and took all of the rear headrests inside to work on installing their covers. I've attached pictures of the front and bottom of the newly covered headrests. I'm viewing the pictures on an IPS, color calibrated monitor. So, I can definitely say that these shots of the headrests do a better job of representing the shade of "grey" that my kit came in that I wasn't able to show earlier due to bad lighting.

About the headrests... I want to say that these headrest covers contributed to half or more of the soreness in my fingertips. They fit so tightly that it was truly a nightmare to fasten the end connectors at the bottom. The headrests ends fasten with a J-connector and an I-connector. In short, you have to force that I-connector around the hook of the J as you flip the head of the I into the gullet of the J. I make it sound easy, but I assure you all that it was not. There was much shouting and cursing in between all the squeezing and reshaping to make those ends fit.

This brings me to my new best friend. I've attached an image of my friend. It's a black plastic wedge that came with my Clazzio kit. VERY LITTLE of what I have accomplished would have been possible without this little miracle worker. It's kind of shaped like a butter knife with thin, dull ends. This thing provides leverage on fittings, ends, and connectors in a way that your fingers cannot. Before the week is done, I think I shall name it.

My last picture for now is the almost finished rear. The hardest section has probably been the rear passenger side. That cover is longer than the rear driver side cover, and extends around and behind the rear center armrest. For the longest time, I just couldn't figure out how to make the center part of it fit correctly until I realized that it had to be folded under and behind the arm rest then velcroed to the upper end.

1 more side post and some general smoothing, and the rear is done!

Up close and personal these covers feel great! A friend of mine has been really blown away by how close to factory these covers give the feel of.
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Does the gray (not light gray) from clazzio match the interior good? I just ordered gray on gray and am hopping it matches.

burstaneurysm · Dec 1, 2013

Jesse Melara said: ↑

Does the gray (not light gray) from clazzio match the interior good? I just ordered gray on gray and am hopping it matches.
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Yes, the standard grey matches the misty grey interior very well.

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Steve terry · Dec 5, 2013

I bought beige and I wish I would of bought the gray. Beige does not match very well.

Jesse Melara · Dec 18, 2013

I got mine and put them in. took me 2 days and my hands where sore and scratched up after..they are still healing lol. but they grey looks great!!!

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