Years ago, when you wanted to lay some new hide in your ride, you headed south of the boarder to Tijuana, Mexico, and checked out many of the custom upholstery shops. There, they would cut, stuff, and stitch your seats, door panels, and headliner for a couple hundred bucks. The pattern selection was either diamond, biscuit, or tuck and roll, and made from Naugahyde vinyl, which was an imitation leather treatment for your seats and door panels.
Katzkin offers its unique seat-color selector, which allows you to construct your own Katzkin custom design on its website, www.katzkin.com. With just the click of the mouse, you can select the seat style, insert, color, material, perforation, piping, and the logo location. See it before you order it.
Today, custom-truck enthusiasts are spoiled with numerous high-quality custom upholstery shops that can really lay down the leather. Another means of custom-seat upholstery are the pre-made seat covers.
When it comes to aftermarket leather interiors, Katzkin Leather is one of the leading companies ready with pre-sewn seat covers. Whether factory seat cover replacement or custom seat covers, door panels, arm rests and sun visors, Katzkin has many available options. Katzkin's superior quality meets the rigorous standards set by the OEM's, and well-known custom builders. Katzkin's moderate or colorful two-tone leather interiors will impress any truck or SUV owner. Katzkin allows you to choose from 250 patterns, 90 different colors, and materials, which include your choice of piping, embroidery, stitching, or perforation. You can pre-design your own custom seat cover by using Katzkin's seat color selection tool on their website. Go to www.katzkin.com.
For this tech article, we followed along as Danny Hentges installed a Katzkin upholstery kit for the front bucket seats and the rear 60/40 seat of an '06 Ford F-150 SuperCrew 4x4
After removing the '06 Ford SuperCrew front bucket seats, the factory leather was removed to the bare foam |  |
Danny Hentges began by aligning and slipping one corner of the bottom Katzkin material over the bottom seat foam. | 
A unique feature of all Katzkin seat covers is the super-grip Velcro that helps to secure the material into the seat panel channels. |
The installation of the hog rings into the leather and foam was made effortless by a pair of special hog-ring pliers. |  |