How To Reupholster SN95 Rear Seats | 1994-04 Mustang

Reupholstery Steps

1. Start by removing the rear seats from the car. If you don't know how please check out our article explaining the steps to do so.



2. Next, we will be removing the old upholstery from your foams. We also have an article that explains these removal steps.



3. Let’s begin with your seat backs first. Unbox your new upholstery and check for any flaws or obvious defects. Our friends over at TMI were nice enough to send us a set of these 01 Bullitt style upholstery sets for our project.



4. Take one of your new seat backs and roll the lower edge up a few times to make this install easier for you. Once you have the lower edge rolled, start to slip this over the top edge of the foam.



5. Be patient here, these are meant to be a tight fit so you may experience a little bit of repeated back and forth seating of the upholstery until you get it to where it should be.



6. Insert your hand in between the foam and the upholstery and line up your hook and loop strips. Using one hand on the inside and one on the outside, slowly align these and fully seat these together.



7. Now you can unroll the remaining fabric on the lower edge.



8. Using a razor blade, make a small X shape on your stud and push this through. Make sure to make small cuts here so you do not have an ugly mistake on your install.



9. Moving to the other side, make another X cut for the bolt hole on this side. Again, make small cuts until this is completely open for the hardware to pass through.



10. Now you can hog ring your flaps down. Go ahead and load a new hog ring into your pliers. Pull the carpet and the fabric side as tight as possible and then you can hog ring these together.



11. The J clip on the bottom will be next. This one can be a little tedious here so do not get discouraged. Pull the front and the back as tight as you can get it on each side. Once you have any remaining slack out, start on one edge of the j clip and insert the male end into the female. Now that you have one edge started, you can slowly work your way down. Make sure to pull each side while seating the J clip to help remove any excess slack and wrinkles.



12. The last step on the seat backs will be the latch trim. We noticed on our application that one of the trims had a slight defect and was a little tweaked. We used a heat gun to help make this a little more malleable and bent this one straight.



13. Set this one in place and pass both of the pull loops through their designated hole.



14. Now you can install the (4) phillips head screws.



15. Now that we are done with the seat backs, let’s move to the seat bottom. Start by installing the listing rods into the new upholstery.



16. Using your hog ring pliers, install two hog rings on the rod to the foam. Space these out evenly on each side.



17. You can go ahead and pull the fabric through the seat belt buckle area.



18. Now you can secure the inner flaps together on these. Start on the inner edges first then move to the outer edges after and secure these with a few hog rings in each spot.



19. Next, we can align and seat the hook and loop strips on each side. Take your time here and pull the upholstery tight to help alleviate any wrinkles when doing this.



20. Once we have the top side pretty much in place, let’s flip the bottom over. Now we will start to go back in with new hog rings around the perimeter of the foam. I like to start in the center and alternate from side to side. This way you can slowly work out as many wrinkles while pulling the upholstery as tight as possible. There is no specific pattern here really, you can go back with just the factory locations, but you can always add in more hog rings periodically if need be.



21. Once you have all of the perimeter completed, flip the foam back over and you can try to work out any remaining wrinkles you may have.