Kizashi front seat is comfortable and good quality, in my opinion, my car uses fabric type which is good in the hot sun and cold situation but there is a small problem with it, cleaning fabric cover seat is a pain in the rear bot .
I tried various products from carpet cleaning shampoos to Sonax spray cleaner none of them worked as I thought.
So I decided to disassemble the front car seat and remove the seat cover and then clean it.
My car seat is a non-powered type that makes it simpler to work with.
First I removed the car seat by 4 (8mm) bolts and also disconnect connectors.
The disassembling seat is not hard but putting back everything is more challenging so it is better to take photos in every step.
the seat cover is attached to crushing with metal ring goal is to widen the gap between those rings to remove the seat cover I used screwdriver and plier to do that and also use those rings after.
after removing covers washing makes so easy and effective. and the put all back together. It takes a whole day for me but worth it
and here results
Seat cover cleaning
Did you just throw them in the washing machine or dry clean maybe ? This would have been a good time to turn the driver seat into power. If you lived near by , Id of given you one. Those hog rings are a bit nasty to work with and reuse. Ive had to do this myself. If you have to do a lot of this though, There is a hog ring pliers and 100 ring kit available for $17 on ebay.
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no dry clean after removing them from cushion put all in hot water and hand wash them like the old fashion carpet cleaningold tech wrote:Did you just throw them in the washing machine or dry clean maybe ? This would have been a good time to turn the driver seat into power. If you lived near by , Id of given you one. Those hog rings are a bit nasty to work with and reuse. Ive had to do this myself. If you have to do a lot of this though, There is a hog ring pliers and 100 ring kit available for $17 on ebay.
about hog rings, I reused all of them because I didn't cut them with a plier and screwdriver can be done.
unfortunately, I am not in the US. I am not a fan of the power seat but I think I can not use a OE power seat in my car because there is no wiring for it.
OMG excellent work! Those seats look brand new!
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after 4 years driver's seat got dirty and this time I bought an OE hog ring PN: 09387-19001 (thanks to old tech) so I removed all of it and with a special plier I reinstalled them.
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am i seeing that correctly? heated cloth seats?
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Yes
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oh cool i had no idea that was a thing, i thought only the leather seats were able to be heated
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an important part of the heated seat are buttons on the AC panel other than that everything is plug-and-play and maybe you can also switch the seat cover front fabric to leather and vice versa but I have not tested that.Obama_is_hot6 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 1:54 am oh cool i had no idea that was a thing, i thought only the leather seats were able to be heated