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Performance and CustomizingShare your tips and tricks on customizing your sportbike. From windscreens, footpegs, undertails, flushmounts, paint, exhausts, and tires.
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Trouble Getting Vinyl on Seat Tight...
Hey everyone.
I've got my new seat cover, and I'm having some trouble getting the vinyl on the seat tight.
Here's what I did.
I started out putting some spray adhesive on the seat foam, and layed the vinyl on there where I need it to be. This is important, because the vinyl is multicolored and sewn together, so it NEEDS to be centered.
After that, I started by pulling the sides right in the center tight. I worked my way around to the back of the seat, and everything looks great from the center to the back.
However, when I started working my way forward, I had a bitch of a time trying to get the vinyl straight.
I finally said it's just "good enough" but I'm not very happy with how it looks. I pulled as hard as I could and repulled over and over again, and couldn't get results that didn't look just "okay."
Short of sending it in to the company that I got the cover from, any suggestions on what I could try to get it tighter??
Thanks!!
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leave it out in the sun for a while to let the vinyl heat up...then it should stretch more and maybe u can get the shape you want
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Originally Posted by kevin_stevens
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same principle
__________________ If it isn't custom...is it really yours? 2001 GSX-R600: Custom Delrin Sliders and Spools, K&N filter, PCIII USB, 520 EK Chain, Woodcraft Clip-ons and Footpegs, Circuit 1 Case Cover, SS brake lines front and rear, GSX-R750 fork, and GSX-R1000 front brakes, GPR Stabilizer, CRG Shorty Levers, full Akrapovic exhaust, Renthal Grips, Greggs Customs Signals, CBR 954 Integrated Tail Light Gear: Alpinestars SMK Jacket, Arai Quantum 2 Helmet, Alpinestars SPS Gloves, ICON Superduty 2 Pants. JUST SAY NO TO CHROME!!!
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