2012 Katzkin Leather Group Buy

I talked to John tonight and ordered my Katzkins. I got the dark graphite outer and ice gray inner with red stitching and liquicells and heaters.
Thanks for the awesome deal John!

 

You bet Bud! Lookn forward to seeing the finished install pics

 

Same here! (sans liquicells and heaters) Ordered nearly the same color combo last night though.

Can't wait to see them and experience that amazing smell of leather!

John is very pleasant and professional.

 

John, I went ahead and installed the ice gray kit, since there were no takers on it. Looks and feels great and I'm happy with it. I had a local leather installer do it for me out of his home. He originally asked for $100.00 for the install, since it was an access cab, but he didn't realize I had seat heaters and had to glue the rear panels and door panels. So I gave him $150.00 for the whole job, which I was very happy with.

 

Alright I got my Katzkins today and got a chance to install the both bottoms of the rear bench. It is looking soooooo sweet so far. Can't wait to get the fronts done. I'll post pics as soon as I'm done.
Ps- my fingers are killing me

 

Installed yesterday. These are really nice covers and the embroidery is beautiful.

 

Those look great. Did you do the installation yourself?

 

Yes, I did do the installation myself. It wasn't terribly difficult, BUT it was a lot of work - probably 12 hours for me.

Some of it is just the learning curve. For instance, once I had finished one of the front seats, the second one only took half as much time.

Also, someone mentioned sore fingers previously. My fingers and hands ached something fierce by the time I had finished the project. Working the covers overs the front head rests about did me in.

Don't know that I'd want to do this for a living, but I have to say it was a very satisfying project. Great product + determined effort = terrific results.

 

This is by far my favorite, and most time consuming, and most rewarding mod i've ever done. I did it over the weekend while at work so I got paid while installing these. Everytime I get in it, it smells like I'm walking into a Coach Leather store. This really brought my truck up to a whole new level. I'm curious to see what dealer says next time I swing by there.
Yes the front headrests were by far the the hardest part of the whole job. I would just have a coworker help me with em. One of us would squeeze the foam together while the ther pulled and tugged. For cutting the holes for headrests I found that if I cut the whole square opening out the leather was alot smoother around it without wrinkling. I was really glad to see that I didnt have to do the grinding and soldering of the plastic pieces on the rear seats for the release pulls. The red stitching goes awesome with my Barcelona Red and really ties it all together. Liquicell is awesome and all I gotta do now is wire up the seat warmers. I have all summer so I'm thinking about getting the 2010+ 4Runners switches which fit in the blanks under my a/c controls and it'll look completely stock.
I'd like to give a shout out(lol) to John Huey for this great offer and I cant forget HomerTaco of course. If it wasnt for him none of us would have attempted this or thought it was possible. If anybody wants more pics or anything feel free to ask.

 

is Alcantra leather an option??

thanks

 

if Katzkins offers that leather then you most certainly can get it. When I looked a while back they offered a huge amount of choices. you can go on their site and look at all of their choices

 

Looks good Judd!

 

Thank you guys for the pics!! They look pretty sweet just sittn in the box but there is nothing better than the finished project
John

 

Bump

 

still taking orders?

 

Is this group buy still available?

 

Check out the OP

 

Here is a Custom kit that was put together by a gentleman in the Southern Region where the TSS Sport Series Tacomas are available. The team at Katzkin loaded up this logo and it is now available to anyone who has interest. Thanks Jerid for putting this one together

 

Thank you John.
Came in today. I am offshore but my wife said that they are perfect and smell wonderful.

 

Kinda quiet out there guys! I'm working with the folks at Redline Goods. They are gonna stitch me up several Dark Graphite Console Covers to match the Katzkin kits that I have been supplying. These will fit all Gen2 models and consist of Katzkins matching vinyl. Not sure what the price point will be but I'm guessing $45-50 depending on RGs cost to me. Please shoot me a PM if you may be interested. Sincerely, John Huey