jimbronco91
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Has anyone installed aftermarket seats in 1991 Bronco
Replacement seats
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L\Bronco
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Not a 91, but I put Audi Q8 seats in my 79. A few fabricated brackets, (mostly 3/16” plate) and they fit very well.
What kind of info are you looking for?
Cheers
jimbronco91
Member
I found a pair on Amazon I really like that color matches my interior. I have been juggling to reupholstery the front seats or replace.
L\Bronco
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Its really your choice. Making brackets allows you to choose optimum position and comfort. Re-upholstery maintains stock components and is easier.
Wish I could be more help.
Cheers
Wish I could be more help.
Cheers
jimbronco91
Member
Thanks I will get quote on getting the reupholstered & make my choice. They are in good shape small tear so this might be the right choice.
goodO1boydws
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For whatever its worth, if you're handy and the Bronco's seats happen to be vinyl or leather rather than cloth, there is a range of colors and also some choices of texture of a self-adhesive vinyl material that is designed for repairing upholstery. I had not known that it existed before I found it on AMAZON while looking for something else.
I used some of the material in Fall of 2023 to cover the entire center section of the leather driver's seat on my 2002 Mercury Mountaineer, (the only seat that had damage) and its a close match to the original in both color and texture-and its 2X as thick as the OEM material, but it still has plenty of flexibility. I was surprised that there were multiple shades of light grey available (among different sellers) and found something extremely close to the original color I wanted.
The adhesive is extremely tenacious on a well-cleaned surface-if applied when both are at a reasonable ambient temperature.
I made a trial and error pattern first, and then traced its outline onto the vinyl's paper backing and cut it out, then punched a pattern of small air holes as the material would be covering so much of the seat's surface. Covering a large area-while the seat was in the vehicle and still assembled, and that wasn't all one level, took planning about where to make slits in the backing material to position it precisely as I went and and still be able to get the backing strips off. Once in place, I burnished it down well into the seams around the edge and also down into the original upholstery's stitched pattern beneath it. (The patch material had enough give to do that.)
Mine has no sign of lifting or peeling yet-the repair it will likely outlive me as the seat now has a covering at least 3X as thick as what was there to start with. Among the material I looked at on Amazon were several sizes/rolls/strips of it, but nothing extremely wide and/or extremely long in the way of sheets or rolls of it there. If I remember right, the lengths, at that time seemed to top out at about 60". I bought a tight roll that was 16" x 31"-for $13.00
That reminds me, the piece I got did not want to lie flat (maybe it was just rolled up too long?) so I rerolled it the opposite way-around something larger in diameter than the core it came on, and let it relax for something like 2 weeks while I was doing other things, and later taped it down flat while tracing, cutting, slitting and then punching. The slitting made a BIG difference.
I used some of the material in Fall of 2023 to cover the entire center section of the leather driver's seat on my 2002 Mercury Mountaineer, (the only seat that had damage) and its a close match to the original in both color and texture-and its 2X as thick as the OEM material, but it still has plenty of flexibility. I was surprised that there were multiple shades of light grey available (among different sellers) and found something extremely close to the original color I wanted.
The adhesive is extremely tenacious on a well-cleaned surface-if applied when both are at a reasonable ambient temperature.
I made a trial and error pattern first, and then traced its outline onto the vinyl's paper backing and cut it out, then punched a pattern of small air holes as the material would be covering so much of the seat's surface. Covering a large area-while the seat was in the vehicle and still assembled, and that wasn't all one level, took planning about where to make slits in the backing material to position it precisely as I went and and still be able to get the backing strips off. Once in place, I burnished it down well into the seams around the edge and also down into the original upholstery's stitched pattern beneath it. (The patch material had enough give to do that.)
Mine has no sign of lifting or peeling yet-the repair it will likely outlive me as the seat now has a covering at least 3X as thick as what was there to start with. Among the material I looked at on Amazon were several sizes/rolls/strips of it, but nothing extremely wide and/or extremely long in the way of sheets or rolls of it there. If I remember right, the lengths, at that time seemed to top out at about 60". I bought a tight roll that was 16" x 31"-for $13.00
That reminds me, the piece I got did not want to lie flat (maybe it was just rolled up too long?) so I rerolled it the opposite way-around something larger in diameter than the core it came on, and let it relax for something like 2 weeks while I was doing other things, and later taped it down flat while tracing, cutting, slitting and then punching. The slitting made a BIG difference.
jimbronco91
Member
They are cloth. The Bronco was a Forest Service vehicle so it is Custom 5.0 w/5 speed very basic.
goodO1boydws
Active member
Well, good luck Jim.
I always liked having the old, full coverage, heavy duty, nearly-indestructible, screwdriver proof, saddle blanket type seat covers on our wagons and utility vehicles-until this one.
