project-pegasus
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A few weeks ago I found a center jump seat from a regular F150 at pick-a-part and decided to have it reupholstered with the OEM charcoal fabric. I went to a good shop here in SoCal and they were able to track down some of the 2119 gray fabric. I took the two main seats as well since the fabric on the outside bolsters was getting threadbare and we now had plenty of the charcoal material to recover them. But the guy who runs the shop noticed that Ford had glued the fabric to the seat cushion foam, both the lowers and uppers. Since I want to reuse the striped material that runs down the center of the seats, he was worried that he might destroy the foam when he separates it from the fabric. Ford no longer sells the foam (and it looks like when they did sell replacements, they sold the foam pre-covered with the material already glued on) and Explorer seat cushions don't look like they have the right shape (even the sport seats with the pull out extension like ours). Has anybody gone through the reupholstery process already and dealt with some of these issues? The upholsterer said he sees this problem with OEM seats quite often (cloth glued directly to the foam) because the car manufacturers use it to cuts costs somehow. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
