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Moravia, IA | Anyone have a source for a new seat cover.....mines coming apart at the stitching. I know I could take it to an upholstery shop but around here everyone wants a small fortune to do anything.
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Iron Butt
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| Aaron if you find one let me know. Mines doing the same thing and I've been unable to find a cover. And all the shops around here want to keep the seat two weeks and this isn't the time of year I want to park the bike. |
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Central Maryland | Contact Mean City Cycles. They get rave reviews from the VTXOA forums (Honda VTX forum). They have an appointment system so you can send it in; get it done immediately and they send it back out to you:
http://www.meancitycycles.com/ |
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Iron Butt
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| willtill - 2012-04-08 6:28 AM Contact Mean City Cycles. They get rave reviews from the VTXOA forums (Honda VTX forum). They have an appointment system so you can send it in; get it done immediately and they send it back out to you: http://www.meancitycycles.com/[/QUOTE Thanks I sent them an email, we'll see what they have to say. |
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Iowa | I just had my seat recoverd for my vision at a local upolstery shop, they had it for 8 weeks, good thing I had my vegas to ride.they used the same type of material with some "Vs" stitched in and a few accents. $260.00 ouch! |
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Iron Butt
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| Eight weeks? The price is decent but the time is ridiculous. |
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elgin mn | BOY the seat shouldn't be comming apart at the stitching. pretty poor job or materials. Let my Vic rep know about my seat problemlast fall at at open house. he asked me are you sitting on my wallet, who sits on their wallet. poor quality seat. my only bitch! thanks Pete |
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Phenix City AL. | I just got a seat that HMD got built its cut down and recovered . I have my stock seat, I want to keep it for a winter seat the new one is not heated, however I could loan it to you while yours is getting re done, shipping is 35.00 each way,. |
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Iron Butt
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| pete a - 2012-04-08 9:31 AM BOY the seat shouldn't be comming apart at the stitching. pretty poor job or materials. Let my Vic rep know about my seat problemlast fall at at open house. he asked me are you sitting on my wallet, who sits on their wallet. poor quality seat. my only bitch! thanks Pete I have to agree with you, the seat material isn't up to par with the rest of the bike. This is the only bike I've owned that did this. I rode my wing to well over 100k without any seat issues. |
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Cleveland, GA | The seat on my '08 is coming majorly apart on both sides. My dealer said he has another with that problem, too. I think Ma Vic needs to step up on this one. |
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| Lone Ranger - 2012-04-08 1:57 PM The seat on my '08 is coming majorly apart on both sides. My dealer said he has another with that problem, too. I think Ma Vic needs to step up on this one. I agree with but I also wish you good luck. Mine's doing the same thing and Vic says take it to the dealer and see what he will do. |
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| A year ago a rider said the seat was ripping at the threads. So I went and rubbed mink oil on all the threads thinking maybe they dry out is why they rip.
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Orlando | aaronrkelly - 2012-04-08 7:04 AM Anyone have a source for a new seat cover.....mines coming apart at the stitching. I know I could take it to an upholstery shop but around here everyone wants a small fortune to do anything. Got to give thanks to my dealership... They installed a 2010 seat on my 09 because I wanted a backrest prior to picking the bike up! 30k miles and no issues! |
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Ruskin, Fl | My stitching is also coming apart. The seat guy at Quaker Steak and Lube on Wed nights quoted me $75 and he'll do it while I wait and he will double stitch is so it doesn't happen again.
Edited by cw1115 2012-04-09 5:11 PM
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Moravia, IA | cw1115 - 2012-04-09 5:11 PM
My stitching is also coming apart. The seat guy at Quaker Steak and Lube on Wed nights quoted me $75 and he'll do it while I wait and he will double stitch is so it doesn't happen again.
Is that fixing your cover or a new one.....if thats a new cover Id jump ALL over that if I was you. |
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Iron Butt
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| aaronrkelly - 2012-04-09 5:14 PM cw1115 - 2012-04-09 5:11 PM My stitching is also coming apart. The seat guy at Quaker Steak and Lube on Wed nights quoted me $75 and he'll do it while I wait and he will double stitch is so it doesn't happen again. Is that fixing your cover or a new one.....if thats a new cover Id jump ALL over that if I was you. +1 |
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Ruskin, Fl | No, just to remove the stock one, double stitch it and replace it. I still think it's a good price. The guy from "Stitch in time" wants about $800 to recover with exotic material, tempur foam and a design stitched in. The heat would still work. His big thing is alligator. He was featured in Go Far magazine. |
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