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I have one of these:
John Deere AMT 600 Utility Vehicle Maintenance Guide & Parts List (greenfarmparts.com)
The seat cover is cracked. I want to take the seat off and restore it. What material should I be looking for? I was thinking of adapting a lawnmower style seat with a back, but the current seat is nice because 2 people can fit on it, as long as they like each other a lot.
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Aren't those a heat formed molded seat? If so hard to recover.
Anyhow what you want is known as "MTA" vinyl. Same stuff thats used for mta buss seats.
Ed
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I don’t think the seat is heat formed. It might be. Its covered in old cracked vinyl and some kind of foam padding. I know it’s bolted on and I’ll have to cut at least one bolt. I was trying to remove the seat a while ago and there’s something stripped because one of the bolts was just turning a nut or something. I’m not sure its the original seat. There’s a 2” gap at the front of the seat between it and the frame so I might just make a new seat frame.
I’ll look into the vinyl. Thanks.
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Take it to an auto upholstery shop. They will have the materials to recover the seat and can probably do it easier and cheaper than you can do it yourself.
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You're right on the easier. You might be right on the cheaper. Either way, I like a challenge. My brother rehabs motorcycles as a hobby. I'd forgotten he probably knew the answer. He said JoAnn fabric and others sell material for redoing motorcycle seats.
