Recovering a seat

[Spokey]

Interestingly I bought one of those cheap staplers for a fiver from a discount shop this week I tried it out on my seat as it had some ropey stapling from the previous owner fitting a new seat cover and I was quite impressed at how good it was, like Knackered says, you may have to use a pin hammer to drive them fully home, but it did the job. And I have a stapler to use for other jobs now

Spokey

[Mudfacetony]

You will not get the staples in behind the plastic side supports unless you use the thin air stapler as used by upholsters. The plastic is a hard plastic and the first seat I did (and have done may over the years) is not as good as the one done for £10 at the local upholsters, so I had it stapled a second time.

Remember that if the staples are not fully down (very hard to do with B and Q stapler) the seat will tear at that point.

I've found a local uphosterer on the www who have a website and motorcycle seats are mentioned so hopefully they can do the job for some small wonga