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Birdy

Member Since: 07 Oct 2011
Location: Côte d'Azur
Posts: 883

2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Santorini Black

Seat Back Foam

After many months of leaning against metal, I’ve decided to treat myself to new foam for my front seat back(s); I imagine that all the “usual suspects” get them from the same manufacturer, but please correct me if I’m wrong.

Exmoor Trim’s front seat back foam at £42.26 is described as being for “TD4 Puma”, are they universal (my truck’s a 2011 with XS trim)? I can’t immediately see how the cloth/fake leather splits at the back to be taken off, so I might well leave it to my local indie to do the job.

But any recommendations as to sourcing the foam itself would be much appreciated. To replace a couple of missing reclining lever handles, MUC8754 seems about right but again though, the after-market cost appears more expensive than from a main dealer?

Peter

19th Apr 2018 2:59pm

300TDi CSW Phil

Member Since: 03 Apr 2016
Location: Bracknell
Posts: 750

1995 Defender 110 300 Tdi CSW Epsom Green

I am going to make a rash unfounded assumption here

There is a join at the bottom of the seat back at the rear on the 300TDi seats which is formed of two plastic chanels that hook together to hold the bottom of the back of the seat together. When these are unhooked with the headrest removed you can peel the cover up to about the shoulder blade area. At this point there are some sewn in hooks or similar which pinch the front of the seat back cover to the foam. Remove these and keep peeling until voila you have an inside out seat back cover in your hand.

There are some youtube videos which show the process in quite good detail.

I bought new kits complete from Exmoor and the foams are standing up to life well. 1995 300 Tdi Epsom Green - It's a keeper.
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M0XQS

19th Apr 2018 3:56pm

blackwolf

Member Since: 03 Nov 2009
Location: South West England
Posts: 17725

2007 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 DCPU Stornoway Grey

The cover is fastened a bit like an envelope along the bottom edge where it doesn't show, and slides upwards off the seat. It isn't hard to do.

19th Apr 2018 3:58pm

zsd-puma

Member Since: 09 Aug 2016
Location: Kent
Posts: 2720

2010 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 USW Santorini Black

You can actually remove the head rest then slide the whole cover and foam off in one go after undoing the bottom as others have mentioned..

The fiddly bit is that the cover is attached to the foam with hog rings. You can chuck these rings away and just use some very small cable ties - do the same job and much easier!

It's a little fiddly, but it's not especially difficult to do.

19th Apr 2018 5:33pm

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