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How to install seat buttons?
My new seat covers have arrived for my 1980 non-folding seat. Looks great but does anyone know how to install the seat buttons?
My old seat was a different pattern with no seat buttons and it was unavailable (see pics). I like the style I bought, even though they are not absolutely correct for the year. My truck is a 1980 disguised as a 1973 and has a later bed, so it's a bitsa as they say.
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Re: How to install seat buttons?
Those are not the right kind of buttons.
They are the button and then the backing plate.
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Re: How to install seat buttons?
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Given that these are the only buttons I’ve got I suppose I can make my own backing plates. Do we just poke them through the upholstery and that’s it? Not through the foam I’m guessing but it looks like I should get the buttons tight to compress the upholstery a bit and give it that buttoned down look. Comments?
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Re: How to install seat buttons?
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Re: How to install seat buttons?
Here’s the Chrome Medallions. I do have the contact info to the guy that bought all my seat supplies. I could ask him if he would sell you some blue buttons with the backing plates.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/33548021311...mis&media=COPY
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Re: How to install seat buttons?
Thank you again for your help TKCR. I think I’ll try some regular buttons on the back. Something strong off of a jacket, with a concave shape like the OEM backing plates, that can give it the right look.
Either that or I’ll leave them off altogether. I wouldn’t want to end up with loose buttons.
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