Seat Covers Research Guide

Why Should I Buy A Set Of Automobile Covers?
While you are sitting comfortably in your automobile, your seats may be going through a real bad time. Ranging from dirty, wet clothes, spilt drinks, slobbering pets, kids snacking, friction, harsh sunlight, you can’t imagine what not your car seats have to face. All of these abuses can ruin and wear out your wonderful seats.
And if by chance, you have to undergo a complete reupholster, it will cost you dearly.
But with the right set of seat covers, you don’t have to worry about your car seats anymore.
Now, you can-

• Personalize the interior of your car to portray your personality
• Provide protection to seats against various hazards
• Successfully hide existing damage rather than doing a complete reupholstering of your seats

Seat Cover Protection Reference
There are a few areas in your vehicle that have to face a lot of abuse, which leads to invariable wear and tear. Your carpets are constantly being stamped by dirty shoes, your steering wheel is being handled non-stop by oily hands and your seats are always the favorite target of various abuses. You can protect your seats from just any and every sort of hazard by not driving your car at all, but that of course is not a practical solution. But you surely can protect your seats with a pair of form-fitting, good-looking seat covers.

Your automobile seats face a number of perils, including:

Moisture
Moisture is one of the biggest enemies of your car seats. Moisture can cause serious trouble to your car seats. Water is leather's worst enemy. When leather gets wet, it becomes tacky to the touch - a sign that the leather's natural oils are being washed out. Cloth seating is also prone to damage from moisture. When water seeps into factory-installed fabrics, it can fester and grow into ugly, stinky, disgusting molds. But with our seat covers you don’t need to have any kind of fear. Our seat covers come in a wide selection of materials with varying degrees of water resistance to protect your upholstery.

Kids and Pets
Kids can cause serious damage to your car seats. You can easily clean away any mess your kid creates with its food in the kitchen or elsewhere in your home. But what if the accident occurs on your car seats! Imagine, your little darling smearing the car seats with cake laden fingers! It will surely leave stains difficult to clean!

In the same way, your four legged companion can also pose serious hazards to the car seats. Not only does slobber leave white-bordered saliva stains; hair clings to everything and is a nightmare to remove. Plus, their sharp little talons can rip, tear and gouge your upholstery, especially leather. However, the right set of seat covers will shield your seats from the messes that children and pets inevitably create.

Friction
No one thinks twice while getting in and out of their vehicle, but this seemingly harmless operation actually puts a lot of stress on your car seats. This constant friction between your body and your seat steadily grinds away at your upholstery. As time passes, not only the color starts to fade the strength of the leather or fabric also starts to wane, and it eventually becomes threadbare, torn and split. Of course, you can avoid this pitiful fate with a quality set of seat covers.

UV Damage
Just because every form of life on Earth is dependent on the sun for its existence doesn't mean that solar rays aren't a mixed blessing. We all know, too much sun exposure is not healthy for our skin, in the same way it is harmful for our upholstery too. Leather is especially susceptible to sun damage because UV radiation dries out the natural oils in the leather. Without these oils keeping it moist, the leather eventually starts to crack. Cloth upholstery is also in danger. Direct sunlight on your fabrics has a bleaching effect. Your black seats will eventually start looking gray or ashen. Since it is not always possible to park in the shade, you can give yourself year-round protection with a great set of seat covers.

A Guide to Covering Your Damaged Seats
If the interior of your vehicle has suffered some cruel twist of fate (a leaky pen left lying in the backseat, or a torn seam that's threatening to unravel completely), you have the ability to rejuvenate your vehicle's seats without having to go through the hassle of a complete reupholster job. All you need to do is slide a set of seat covers. Just get a great looking set of seat covers that will give a perfect fit and even rival your original upholstery.

There are three different fitting seat covers, a custom fit, semi-custom fit and universal fit. Let's take a closer look at the benefits you get with each type.

Custom Fit Seat Covers
Just like a tailor-made suit; cut and stitched to fit the unique shapes and contours of the wearer, a custom fit seat cover is designed for a precise fit for your seats. No part of your particular vehicle's seat is forgotten or overlooked - not the position of the head rest, nor the location of the seat's ergonomic controls, nor even where your seatbelts are mounted. Everything is taken into consideration, and these made-to-measure seat covers will fit like they were factory-installed. Moreover, custom-fit seat covers will also provide access to your seat's side-impact airbags, so you'll be just as secure as before, only with better looking and better protected upholstery.

Semi-Custom Fit Seat Covers
Though a tailor-made suit fits perfectly, an off-the-rack suit still fits well enough, and also leaves you something for a matching shirt and a tie. The semi-custom fit seat covers are the economical alternative to the tailored suit. They are stitched together following patterns that will work with your vehicle's seats as well as with similarly sized seats in other cars, trucks and SUVs. The semi-custom seat covers do not leave access for lumbar controls, and they should not be used if you have side-impact airbags on your vehicle.

Universal Seat Covers
As the name suggests, Universal seat covers will fit over just any high-back or low-back bucket seat. You should never opt for these seat covers as they never provide the protection they are supposed to. These covers either end up being too tight or too loose.

Tips on Making over Your Interior
Your vehicle is an extension of your personality. With the help of the right set of seat covers you can personalize the interiors of your car and make it as unique as you are. With all the different colors, patterns and materials at your disposal, you have an almost limitless array of ways to customize your car seats. Here are the basics:

Colors and Designs
Auto manufacturer usually tend to use neutral colors and almost never add any patterns into the mix. But with us you’ll get a wide array of colors and also radical eye-catching designs. Take your pick from the wide range available and customize your car just the way you want.