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Carl would be proud

  1. BKGM Jeepers President Joined: June 2003
    #12 Oct 2013, 4:47 PM

    Too bad he isn't active any more...





    This past Tuesday I was off for the day and had a couple of hours free. So, I installed leather in the back of my truck! I've never done this before (I've paid people to put leather in, and paid people to swap my interior). It turned out to be a pretty easy project!



    I did purchase hog ring plyers adn 250 hog rings for $12. Then I used some cutters and needlenose plyers to remove the old hogrings. Other than sockets to get the seats out of the car, those were the only tools required. Fit was pretty good and it only took aobut 3 hours to do the back. The fronts should be much easier, but I'm putting heated seats in there too while I'm at it.



    The leather cost $300.

    The seat heaters cost $65.

    The tools cost $15.



    This was a fairly fun project.

    Attached files

    Kathleen and Brad
  2. BKGM Jeepers started this President Joined: June 2003
    #22 Oct 2013, 4:52 PM

    Carl would be proud - Part II



    I installed navigation in my truck!



    I've done navigation and stereo systems several times in the past, so I expected this process to be pretty easy.



    The one wrench in this process was that my new system came with zero install instructions. Ouch!



    The install is literally about 20 minutes total, if you knew what was wired where. For me guessing and the "trial and error" method it took me about three hours total. Know what I know now, I could do the swap in under an hour and have it all back together.



    My new system was about giving me hands-free calling and music, more than the navigation part. But while I was at it I added the ipod controller, USB ins so I can watch movies stored on SD cards, using a USB connector, and I updated the system to watch movies more often than usual. I should have made a utube video of the install so others in the future could save a ton of time. But now that I'm done everything works and my steering wheel controls are also retained.



    Total cost of the system was about $550.

    I had all the tools to do the job already.

    Not a bad project at all.

    Attached files

    Kathleen and Brad
  3. Guest former user
    #32 Oct 2013, 6:36 PM

    Leather in the bed of your truck.............. four doors, back seat,never mind. 😳



    What brand of kit did you go with Brad? Sounds like something I might want to tryout on the black express.

  4. BKGM Jeepers started this President Joined: June 2003
    #42 Oct 2013, 7:46 PM
    "rick-rock" wrote: Leather in the bed of your truck.............. four doors, back seat,never mind. 😳

    What brand of kit did you go with Brad? Sounds like something I might want to tryout on the black express.

    For the leather?



    it was Alda. Similar to Katzskin.

    Kathleen and Brad
  5. Josh Subscriber
    #52 Oct 2013, 8:49 PM

    Looks good Brad. Nice work!

    Semper Fi
  6. Gregulator Member Joined: February 2012
    #62 Oct 2013, 8:56 PM

    Where do you find interior kits like that? I'd like to replace some upholstery in my truck.

    Um...what?
  7. BKGM Jeepers started this President Joined: June 2003
    #72 Oct 2013, 9:03 PM
    "finder_87" wrote: Where do you find interior kits like that? I'd like to replace some upholstery in my truck.

    I got mine off of ebay...

    Kathleen and Brad
  8. BKGM Jeepers started this President Joined: June 2003
    #82 Oct 2013, 9:05 PM
    "Josh" wrote: Looks good Brad. Nice work!

    Thanks Josh.



    If I knew this was as easy as it was, I could have saved $200 and done my jeep myself. Then it would have only cost me $59 to swap in the 2012 interior, instead of $259...

    Kathleen and Brad
  9. JohnDF Subscriber
    #93 Oct 2013, 5:15 AM

    Looks great, nice work.

    I used to wheel a lot. . .

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