Too short upholstery
 

Hi guys just back in France with a ton of parts, happy.

Today I removed my bench to change my houndstooth upholstery, but it is too short from at least 20 cm. Not happy.

This part was bought at bro trucks in LA, don't know if I will be able to get refund.

Do you guys have experienced the same issue ? Is there a place where I can find correct size ?

Thanks folks,

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Top or botton piece? Any pics?

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did you try to put them in the clothes dryer and heating them up and streaching them till they fit

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I think there may be 2 different sizes for the bench seats depending on years or maybe if it was the full foam seat? Something was different, but don't recall exactly offhand.

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There is a standard seat and a deluxe (full foam) seat. The deluxe seat is thicker because of the better foam layer.... The covers will not interchange.

LockDoc

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A Cheyenne Super cover should be for a full foam, no question.

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Thats what i was thinking with my questions earlier. Unless someone made a houndstooth for a regular seat and didnt tell anyone.

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I agree a Super cover should work on any 67-72 seat.

I wonder if he's referring the material that covers the front of the vertical portion of the seat. I've had to have material sewn on the front panel so it would wrap under the bottom bar and up the back side enough to hog ring or clip in place. Usually it's the earlier 67-68 seats I've had to do this to. The old seat cover was held on with push on clips not hog rings.

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There is no possibility to make it fit, the original upholstery is more or less 147cm long as the replacement one is 120cm long, as you can see, the middle section in synthetic leather is quite shorter on the new upholstery.

Maybe a crafting deffect,

I'm quite sad, if there is no nice reproduction in US store, I'll have to find a specialist in France, but I won't have something like an original part.

Nice day to all,

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I bought a Cheyenne seat cover in '01 when I bought my '72 and the guy said he got them the same place LMC did. My upholstery guy had a heck of a time, but finally got it on. Even though he took 3-4x the time to get it on and it wasn't his fault, he was so disappointed in the results he wouldn't charge me. He told me go buy a good one and bring it back. I went home and looked at the LMC catalog and saw they sell an "economy" grade. It's hard (well maybe not) to believe in all those years those same not worth the lower price covers haven't been corrected. I mean, the lower cost is in the material, not the poor fit. Couldn't they just copy the pattern of their better seat?

On mine the piping was way in front of the edge on the back upper corners and low across the top...after he split it and added material. I think if they hadn't used such cheap material it would never have stretched that much. You could see the threads were pulling hard on the corners, the stitch holes were stretched