How to repair your seat with foam 

You could also remove the seat entirely and replace it with an upside down 5 gallon bucket.

I just picked up an old F250 with missing foam. This, along with some covers, looks like the way to go rather than pulling the seats and and replacing the foam completely.

Thanks for the video! So many vehicles need this, that's the area that can really get worn out! Let me share what has worked very well for me for FREE MATERIAL!, much of which I've learned from my brother who is a professional upholster, with making a new bench or van bench seat or boosting old car seat foam: For car seats that need boosting, most often they just need more foam added to be like new again, I find used carpet pad foam often in a neighbor's trash or dumpster behind a carpet store. Remove the car seat fabric clips and carefully peel the front and sides of the fabric to gain access under the seat foam core, which often requires the seat be unbolted from the floor. Place a sheet of it or two under the seat foam core, right on top of the spring wire deck(carpet pad foam is tougher than the core so this also stops the spring wire deck from cutting into the seat foam core bottom). Your second sheet can be cut smaller just covering the area the butt sits on. Also inspect the top of the foam core and add carpet pad foam or regular foam where might be needed like by the door, worn from getting in and out over the years. Spray adhesive can be used to bond the foam to the foam but is not necessary except for any top foam added. Your seats will be firm and new like for many years now, it's like free magic! The seat back usually doesn't need a any foam because it's the seat that gets the body weight on it from gravity. If you seat back should need a boost, you can add polyfill batting on top of the foam for free-see below. These methods can also be used on sofa seat cushions. I'll share below where to find FREE used good foam below! To make a bench- where to get free foam: there is so much FREE foam and FREE polyfill - in many soft pillow backs and polyfill batting often wrapped around foam cushions for the taken in people's discarded sofa's and chairs found outside dumpsters at apartment complexes and the back of thrift stores. Even though it's used, it has been well protected covered inside the upholstery. Of course in the event it's a cat lady's furniture and the cats happened to piss all over it, you'll smell it and know to move on lol Most apartments don't allow pets or make it expensive to have a pet so a lot of furniture is pet free. Use a box cutter to open the old furniture to get at the free foam or poly as you need or use the zipper you'll find on some pieces. Some foam in old sofas contain like a 1" thick panel of foam on top of other foam that is perfect thickness to add to your sofa foam to give it the new boost again. Foam can be cut to size using a hack saw loose blade only in your hand holding the end making a sawing motion. New foam looses some of it's firmness over a break in period, say after 5 years depending on how much it's sat on. But then the broken in foam lasts a very very long time at that softer level firmness before it really starts to break down. You might be able to buy complete new expensive foam cushion cores but they will sag after the break in period as well. This is why so often we love a new firm piece of furniture but then it gets soft and saggy on us. Now the sofa companies could to put super firm more expensive foam in their sofa's when new that might be a perfect firmness for us when broken after the 5 years break in period, but then we wouldn't buy the sofa if it's not nice to sit on from the beginning in the show room, so there's the dilemma when you fabric is still in great shape after 5 years but the foam is now sagging. The free fix: So just add more foam if you can firms it up to make it like new again, unzip and compress the foam as you slowly peel off your fabric from the cushion core. Then either add more foam to the top or bottom or hack blade saw through the center horizontal line of the foam core all the way from the back to almost through the front but not through, so you leave a good hinge of foam in the front. Then place about a 1" thick of used foam in the sandwich and holding it closed peel the fabric back over the foam cushion. You can also add more polyfill pad to the cushion core on it's outside to add more softness and support but adding more foam is the big boost. Spray adhesive is optional to bond the foam to the foam. People often think that when the seat sags that the springs under the cushions, have weakened but no, it's the foam, the springs are metal and strong, the foam is just foam. For making complete new cushion tops for say a bench, besides free foam, you might even find a lightly used fabric in some part of a discarded sofa to use IN FACT the back side of sofa's is often a large sheet of fabric that has been hidden against the wall never sat on all it's life and so still brand new! Discarded trash at a dumpster is free for the taking and your reducing what goes to our planet's landfill. This is win win, real free hard core recycling, helping to save our environment as well! Take care!

Yes, my oldtimer seat should look like this. Thanks a lot, you're awesome. Make more videos!!! :'D

I was looking to repair an actual " Saddle seat" this came up. Same principle. Thanks -:)

Thanks for making this video, I have a huge gapping hole on my dirtbike seat and they discontinued the replacement parts for it, gonna give it a try

Thanks for the video . I'm going to try this on my 1988 Chevrolet Silverado c1500

Great video. Just bought a 1972 HQ and the drivers part of the bench seat has a giant hole. Gonna save a bomb by fixing it this way and just buying a new seat cover. Thanks 💣💺🍻👌

Very nice thanks for your advice:excellent 👍👍👍

Just exactly what I was looking for, this is perfect for my 2004 E250 seat thanks brother!👍

Good job man.... this is what I wanted to know. I don't care about fancy.

The leather truck seats at work end up like this from people jumping in and out. Doesn’t help that the leather is perforated so seems to split easier. Seat covers help but not for long

I appreciate this. Thanks for taking the time to make this vid. 👍

Another reason why I like to do my own work.

Was waiting on a nice bit of needlework but it is only a work van.

Thank you so much

Nice and simple. Put a good quality seat cover on top and you are good to go

Great video instructions for a rookie who does not own a luxury car and whose car failed the VRT test due to a torn seat and want to repair it himself. Thanks for posting.

Great idea 💡

Nice video for those of us who own, not so new rides. 😊 Where can a diyer buy the scrim foam. Ty

Can you use the foam from an existing seat to replace the foam? I have 2 back seats for my car and I am wondering if it is possible to "Frankenstein" them together

hhh Good job man i need this to recover my torn seat

How to do a *quick* repair with your seat foam, might have been a more appropriate title.

this might be the worse advice for foam repair I have ever seen.

You should show it finished

This should be labled patch foam work for car seats .

You see i found that old t-shirts worked just fine on my truck

This type of seat cover, is it like most seats where you can separate the cover or is the foam injected inside and cannot be replaced?

Where do you get the foam? Mine isn't that big of a spot to stuff though. Also can I use duct tape in a "nice way"? Would it stick?

thanks

What's really important in life? I like his repair job.

I have a 07 Dodge 3500, you should just put a piece of 4x4 wood in that spot, it would probably be softer. MY ASS IS KILLING ME. LOL thanks for the vid.

Awesome work!! I have 2011 Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300 and my passenger side seat is sagging from my ole lady gitt'en in and out. She's a beast at 185 lbs (she's 5'1") but I ain't got the heart to make her walk when we travel together. Could you repair my seat like you did yours in this video?

sorry I couldnt even finish watching this

at least he didn't duct tape it. his next video will be how to paint a truck with a push broom

Is this some kind of joke.

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Why so many dislikes... Better than paying 500 dollars

you call that a foam repair?

Get a foam replacement from the wrecking yard, put a new cover over that geez

How not to repair a foam seat. Lol. Holy hell man. I cant believe all the comments saying this is a great job

If that was my seat , I would have you replace the whole form piece that I sit on not just putting little pieces inside ,

This is appalling, no wonder people do crap work these days if this is how he does it.

wow this is bad, remove bad advice

might as well have a video telling ppl to stuff their seat with garbage and ducktape. super low standards. I should've known when I saw 234 dislikes compared to 153 likes for this video.

Honestly, it looked better before the "repair" lmao. I keep thinking this is a sarcastic joke about foam repair.

Everyone take a shot whenever he says the word THIS! 😉

LOL.

Bldy hell,,,, Who said their were no more cowboys left in America.... ....Yehah

Laughing

:D:D:DOMG!!!:)What kind of mess is this???:):):)Im scared to imagine How he fix Wheel puncture:)

Ghetto foam repair

I hope they never have a car fire!

Absolutely appalling

Please for the love of god do not do this.. take it to an upholstery shop we will fix it for less than 200 bucks and make it look and feel new. That doesnt work longer than 10 rides

thats so dumb

buy an oem foam and a new seat skin and do it right.

Are you fucking serious !! What a shit repair !!