• July 26, 2018
• By: Steve

I decided to invest in some Clazzio seat covers to address some wear issues on the driver’s side seat.  The side bolster was rubbed raw and the dye job I attempted didn’t yield the results I had hoped for.  It is super hard to match aged leather with new dye unless you are adept at mixing your own color, which I am not.  Rather than go all out and buy new skins for the seats and having it professionally done at an upholstery shop (I figured $1200 for skins and labor) I decided to try out a set of these seat covers.  Anyone who looked at my current seats would think I am crazy for trying to cover them up since they are in pretty darn good shape but I am looking to get this car as perfect as I can at a minimum expense.

I ended up ordering a set of Clazzio leather covers from GoTuning.com in full red.  I did like the black/red model but my car is an original full red seat so I wanted to remain that way.  The only thing I didn’t like before ordering was the fact that I am going to lose the honeycomb vented head rest since it will be covered.  I like that look on the car, but maybe the full head rest will grow on me.

The Process:

1. I unpacked the covers and rolled them out fully intending to remove my seats and install them.
2. After looking them over I decided that they were not going to work for me.  The red was way lighter than the red leather door cards and I don’t think I would like that very much.  The color of red on the Clazzios reminded me of Corvette atomic red and is quite different.  The difference is much more apparent than what the picture below shows.  I’m not changing the door card leather to match these so I am just going to continue perfecting the leather repair on the driver’s side bolster.
   

Nothing against Clazzio seat covers.  The red doesn’t match and I am sure they use a standard red for all makes and models of seat covers.  These just aren’t for me and not worth losing my head rest vents over.