Clazzio leather seat covers!

It's very easy, again I did it with my son's help in 3 hours and that was taking our time. The headrest we're the hardest. Is so easy. I watched the videos, took my time. The wires for the heated seats go up through the console should not take anymore than an hour. Now wiring them might be better for another day.

 

Seriously thinking about the suede seats. Anyone get them on a taco?

 

Ultimately the time it took me to install these covers, several hours over two days, was a lot less than the hours I spent agonizing over all the color combinations for body, stitching, and perhaps embroidery. As the pictures show, I settled on all black with red stitching. An awful lot of nice folks have posted tons of information on the installation process. I spent more than a few hours going through many, many posts and have "liked" many of them. My thoughts on the process, I started with the drivers seat. The best advice here, as posted by another member, is when you fold the factory seat cover up at the back, just unzip it for about six inches and fold it and the plastic piece under itself, completely out of the way. This is opposite of the location shown by Clazzio. If you don't do this, you'll be fighting the velcro on the clazzios grabbing the flap. As far as attaching the velcro strips, I just got in the front seat and grabbed and compressed the cover and seat cushion at the base of the seatback while my wife, behind the seat, was able to grab and secure the velcro. Glad no one was shooting video! The bottom seat cover was not hard at all, except for where to locate the strings. Above or below the plastic side trim? I went above, and tight enough to stay above the seat tracks. The "Clazzio knot" works great. When I was installing these covers, it was 45-55 degrees, so I'll go back and retighten everything later. For me, tucking the covers under the plastic holes for the front headrests was a b****. I was really concerned with tearing the fabric. The black insert tool is a great help. I'm showing my age here, but I started replaying Olivia Newton-John's song "Physical," Let's get physical, physical. I want to get physical...in my head as I was pulling and compressing these covers for a tight fit! On to the back. On the driver side, I installed the back upright first with the thought of slicing a perfectly good seat cover in the four spots to use the factory back plastic piece. Sorry, I decided against cutting the perfectly good cover and reinstalled the whole seat cover over the plastic piece. I don't really store much behind the seats so these covers will not get damaged. If I change my mind, I can always go back and install with the plastic back seat cover on top of the clazzios. No problem getting the bolt out for the seatbelt assembly, and it went right back in. And no problem with the holes for the head rests in the back with the larger plastic bases. For the head rests, just get physical and squeeze and pull the fabric while inserting the edge into the groove. I was expecting to have trouble with the arm rest cover as others have mentioned, but just wiggled it on. In fact, I was still able to reinstall a fuzzy cover I had gotten earlier. Just take time to work with each piece. As many others have mentioned, I also am thrilled with the quality, fit, and appearance of these covers.

 

Well a couple hours of tugging, pulling and stretching later the front are done. Wish I would have spent some time reading install tips before I just went for it. But they turned out nice and tomorrow if it’s not raining I will do the rear covers. Very nice quality and comfortable to sit on.

 

Those poofy fabric things in the front seat... are they fart catchers or flatulence filters?

 

Mostly happy with how it came out. The install tips video from clazzio was most helpful. I had a blemish on one of the covers out of the box but it wasn't a deal breaker. And I'm probably in in the minority here but i do think they look better in pictures then in person.

 

Looks great, call them and they will make it right.

 

Those look great! To look Even better;

If you have a clothes steamer, roll the bottoms up to the loose points, use the steamer under the covers to expand the foam and the covers will look amazing. Father had has done upholstery for over 35 years, they hate using covers BUT if they have to, it’s a trick they use to tighten up spots.

 

What a PITA! I have my seat heater pads installed and the covers "on". The drivers side is pretty good as is but the fold flat seat is going to need some decent adjusting. I spent a lot of time and energy in trying to get it positioned right but can't seem to get the leather under the table as it should be. Hopefully it just needs some time to stretch.

They look good though and I can't wait to try the seat heaters!! Wiring of those will likely be next weekend. I think I'll use this as my excuse to finally install my block with 12 additional fused circuits.

I'm not sure if I'll run the console lid cover piece or not. It's nice to have the color match to the seats, but the fit seems a bit weird. Or maybe I just don't see how its supposed to go. It appears that it is basically just a slip over (no fastening hooks, velcro, etc) and it just hangs over the release button. Is that right or did I miss something?

 

Anyone had any issues with the covers cracking?

 

I got my covers over a month now and they are amazing, just need to make sure you tighten them up so they are not wrinkled. @Mitch76, I did full research and a very few people reported a couple of cracks over time, but they also got the warranty promised by clazzio and the covers were replaced. I was seriously considering the katzkins but the two shops around me would not get back to me, so I decide to do the covers, best money I ever spend on my Taco.

 

Make sure you go back and re-tight them. I am pretty sure they will get better

 

I've only had mine a few days but love them! Can't wait to hook up the heaters this weekend!

Only regret is that I wish I would have actually spent a minute to call them and work on color matching. I just picked a color off their site and went with it. Too damn excited I guess! lol

 

Can't go wrong with all black seats.

 

I have the “dark gray” which is more of a medium gray. Very close match to the original “cement gray” in my SR.
Close match to the gray color of the door panel accent piece.
The “dark gray” is a standard/stock color. I had mine a few days after ordering.

 

Re tighten the draw straps under and the string?

 

Well, after owning a 2016 which I always wanted but never actually got clazzios for and now having a 2019 Off Road, I finally pulled the trigger. I went the PVC route and could not be happier. I guess long term wear and tear will be where I'll see the difference but for now man I can't applaud Clazzio enough for their craftsmanship!
Got black on black on black because I did not want to wait 8+ weeks and I like the all black look anyway.

As everyone else before me has said, they are a bitch to install and my fingers are so sore, but it was well worth it!
The hardest part for me, believe it or not, was probably the headrests lol, I don't know, they just took a little more effort. Then the front seats were a bit tricky but after that, the rear went pretty fast.

Clazzio booklet instructions honestly suck. They kinda look like instructions that come with a Chinese product but whatever. Between that and their youtube video as well as some other videos and common sense I made it happen. it was pretty intimidating at first but got it done!

 

Curious how have you guys been wiring the heated seats?

 

Me too. I wanna know?

 

Just ordered mine yesterday. And now we wait.