Hi, John here with RealTruck.com.
Today I want to show you how to install leather seat covers.
Here we have our seat covers all out of the box and laid out.
We have them all organized as to which ones are front and back.
We're going to do the back first, so when you get to the back the first thing you want
to do is to fold up the bottom, because we're going to put the bottom one on first.
Once you have that folded up, then you can take the bottom cover and you're going to
slide it over the top of the bottom of your seat.
Now keep in mind, guys, that when you're doing this these things are designed to be very,
very tight going on here.
Once you get these mostly on there, then what you're going to do is to let this down, because
we need to put this through there.
Make sure that when you do this that your seatbelts are not trapped underneath your
seat cover.
We'll raise this back up and get down here and get hold of that part that we just pushed
through the back.
And now what we're going to do is hold this down really tight.
Once you've got that stretched down there pretty well, the next thing is to start putting
this together.
I usually like to start right here in the middle.
You can see that these are a really nice good looking fit, and this stuff looks factory
in here, guys.
We'll do this side the same way we did the other side, and just take it and slide it
over.
I don't know if you guys can see this on the camera, but right here these are hooks that
are put in here so you can install a car seat in the back of your truck.
So you want to make sure that you put your seat cover down underneath those, for two
reasons.
One, so that you still have access to that hook, and two, because it won't go over the
top.
If you try to put it over the top you're going to end up fighting with it for a long time.
On this one it's better to start at the end.
That's the bottom on this side.
So we'll fold this back down and take a look.
As you can see, it looks just as nice as the other side.
Before we put our seat backs on, one of the things we need to do is to remove our headrest.
And it's really an easy process to remove the headrest.
All you need is some type of a little pick or something like this, and right in the bottoms
of these places where the headrest slide into there are a couple of holes in there.
You just push in on that and that will allow that headrest to slide up, just like that.
You just pull it right out of there.
All right, we have our headrest off, so now we need to install the back of our seat cover.
What we're going to do is we're just going to do the same thing as we did with the bottoms.
We're going to slide it right down over the top of the seat.
Now just so you know, one of the things you're going to want to do is to give yourself a
little more space back here in the back to make sure that the seat bottom is up, because
it will pull the back away from the wall of the truck.
It can give you a little more room to get the seat cover down inside here.
One of the things to keep in mind is that you might have to smash this headrest down
a little bit.
It's not a big deal; it's got foam rubber inside of it.
It will re-expand, and regain its shape just fine.
We'll pull this over, and then this actually flips up and slides inside that plastic piece.
We have our cover on our headrest, so now it's just a matter of putting it back in.
And it's very simple to put it back in.
You stick it up on there and give her a little click down, and there you go.
It's just that simple.
So we have this seat completed.
Now we're going to go ahead and finish up that side and then we'll have this whole back
done and we can get started on the front.
So we're going to put our back cover on this side.
And what we need to do is make sure that we get it under the seatbelt actually.
We'll take that off, we'll pull this up here like so, and then what we want to do is lift
our backs, the bottom of our seat, up here to get some more space on the back edge so
we can tuck this down and under.
Okay, make sure once you get your seat cover pulled down to where the top of it is up against
where your head rest normally rides, to go ahead and take your tabs where your headrest
plugs into and it's really easy.
Just push the seat cover underneath those tabs, and then it'll be out of the way for
putting your headrest back in.
Okay, guys, we've got the back of our seat cover on.
We have it all in place now.
So the next step of our process is to put our cover on our cup holder armrest here,
and it works just like the rest of the seat covers where you just slide it over.
And then if you remember up on the top where we did the head rest slots, it's kind of the
same thing with this part here.
What we're going to do is we're just going to tuck it up underneath.
And then the covers come with this handy little tool you can use to help to get that up underneath
there.
We have the back all done.
It's looking really nice.
Now we're going to do something with these cloth front seats, so we're going to go ahead
and put our covers onto our front.
And we'll start by doing the bottom first.
So let's get these front ones done and looking good.
Now these front ones are pretty simple, they just pretty much slip on just like slipcovers
on your couch or your chair or something like that in your house.
So that's a pretty easy way to do it.
Now these strings here, which we're going to use to pull the thing tight, what we want
to do with these is don't be so concerned about where they go.
We just want to find a comfortable route for them.
I like to usually get them on the outside of the seatbelt, so I can get them down underneath
it and pull them around on the bottom.
And then this piece we're just going to tuck it underneath the seat back.
Then we're just going to feed this back through here.
We have a couple straps attached to the front, and we want to run those through to the back,
but just make sure when you're running those through there that you don't put them in any
place that's going to interfere with your seat slide release lever.
The first thing we need to do to do the back of our front seats is to remove our headrest.
And to do that you just push in on these two buttons right here and just pull it right
out.
And then we'll get that off and out of our way.
Then we'll just take our cover for the seat back and slide it over the top of the seat.
We'll tuck this underneath our mounts for our headrest, and do the same thing on both
of them.
Once we get everything all done at the top, then we'll pull this flap through, and stick
the Velcro right to that carpeted piece.
Now we'll take these hooks that...
The easiest way to do the headrest, guys, is to put it back on.
As you can see we've got all of our seat covers on the truck.
And they look pretty good.
They have a nice factory-look to them.
It doesn't even look like seat covers on there, as you can see.
It looks like factory seats, which is awesome.
So I think the owner of this truck is going to be really pleased with this install.
And now you can see how install seat covers onto your 2014 Chevy Silverado.
And remember, until next time, happy motoring.