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Thank you sir! This is awesome. I never thought to do this. I’m renovating and upgrading the interior in my ‘07 Ram but nobody makes a passenger side seat foam replacement and MoPar has discontinued that part. So i will be doing this technique this weekend!!! Thanks for sharing!!
just did it and it works. takes a lot of patience tho. my little steamer thing only works for 10 minutes at a time, i had to do 3 cycles to get a decent difference. it could probably use a few more tbh.
This weekend I found a old -95 Audi urS6 2.2t in really good condition - except for the driver seat where the cushion towards the door is completely deformed from previous owners neglect to get in and out of the car by lifting their butt out of the seat. I was just starting to research how much it is gonna cost to get it replaced - but now I'm going to google for a really powerful steamer instead! 🙂 (You never know when you need a good steamer next time, so I recon I might as well getting a good one right away. 😉)
Wow!! I just shaved a few hundred bucks off a used truck deal due to the flat seats and saved a few more hundred not replacing them. There like new now.
After watching the first minute, I can make an educated guess about the chemical formula: F(c) + ----> F(e!) + N.M.S. Where: F is Foam c is "crushed" e! is "expanded!" N.M.S. = "No More Sag" I am hoping this works, since it's a lot easier than doing a foam transplant or a seat transplant. I was about to find out if I could remove the seat bottom from my car without having to unbolt the whole seat, and I came across this video.
@@HawkeyeSkunkWorks Thank you for keeping an eye on this discussion all this time! If I steam it while keeping the seat intact, what about needing to let the moisture evaporate? It's still pretty cold here (upper Midwest) - we had snow last night, though it melted away today. I'm thinking I need to wait for warmer weather, and let the car sit outside with open windows after steaming.
Instead of the side bolsters can you do the coushion where your butt sits?? My f-150 has over two hundred thousand miles on it.. if I steamed from the bottom would that add more strength to the coushion??
reading into the comments reveals the effect only lasted about a year.Sad to hear that. So if i want my seats to be like new.. get new foam.. Good vid though
Thanks, Ive had pretty good luck with it lasting several years. The foam is effectively damaged, steaming it fixes it as best as possible, so it naturally wants go back to how it was before the steam.
Hey man, I like the video, got 1 question on the part where you said take the foam from the passenger side, do you mean cut off the piece and glue it to the original seat? (Original bring yours) also does super glue work?
musiclover098200 no, I used the entire thing. Lots of seats driver to passenger side are 99% identical. Minor differences, here and there and I’ve just “made it work”. Hope that makes sense.
It does, I guess I should give more details on why I ask lol, I have 2 bench seats from the same car, one has cigarette burns in it but the important parts are in excellent shape, the other ones important parts are screwed but the upholstery and foam are in near perfect shape, I was wondering if I could take some foam from the old one and repair/ replace the damaged pieces of the good one
It obviously depends on how bad they were to begin with and the car maker makes a difference. It lasts as long as it did when it was new (pretty much) at least that has been my experience. If you're asking if it just collapses back down after a few days, weeks, months, no, it has been that way in my vehicles.
Im sorry I didnt reply to this sooner, I must have slipped through the cracks. Its lasts a good amount of time. Although I would have to say its not permanent, but so far on my seats they definitely have gone back to as bad as they originally were.
Curious about dirty foam? I salvaged some cloth seats from the junk yard. I took them apart and after 3 cycles in the washing machine the material is clean. My issue is that the foam is filthy from liquids seeping through. My concern is that if I put clean covers back on dirty foam it will eventually come back through. Have you had any luck getting stains out of the foam? My other option is to cover the foam in thin plastic. Great Video!!
simple green or some other relatively mild soap and a hose. just treat it like you were trying to clean out a dirty sponge, and make sure the let it completely dry
Do you have to remove the fabric to do this? Or can i just spend a bit more time with the steamer? I have cloth seats and the driverside bolster is starting to get soft... Great vid btw! Thanks for the tip
@@HawkeyeSkunkWorks Cool! Maybe i will give it a try. I have a steamer like yours, but i dont have the time to remove the fabric. Use the truck daily. Thanks for the reply!
Do you know if this works on memory foam? I’ve got a Mitsi l200 and the side of the seat base foam and leather cover is busted from people jumping in and out
I dont think it would work through the leather, maybe if they were cloth seats. Its really not hard to take the seats apart with simple hand tools. Theres tons of videos on how to do it. Take your time and and take pictures of how it comes apart to reference later. If your seats are needing it, youll be so glad you did!
We got it about 10 years ago as a wedding shower gift, and Im not sure on the brand, sorry Id go check but we are in the process of moving and its packed in storage and I have no idea where it is! Haha. Id say any steamer that actually makes steam would be worth a shot.
Will the foam remain after cooling or will it return back like before steaming. Also can i staem foam keeping the cloth seat cover on and achieve results.
The foam stays up after it cools. It will fall back down over time, just like it did while it was new. I get a lot of people asking me if they can steam it with the cloth still on. I dont see why not, but you may not want to if you seat heaters.
@@HawkeyeSkunkWorks But other than the risk of melting the foam, is the "steaming" action of the iron similar to that of a dedicated steamer? I just tried to repair a memory foam cushion with an iron, it looked better, but as soon I restarted using it, it dipped again.
Sadly this has not worked at all. My driver seat foam is so compressed you can actually feel the seat frame. If I sit in the passenger seat it feels like a brand new seat. I might actually have to find a replacement
