Many cars by now are suffering from biodegrading seats.
On right-hand drive cars the outer drivers seat often wears out on the outer edge.
All cars suffer from sunlight through the back window.
Many suffer from old age or overweight middle-age drivers causing the central canvas to split and tear together with a few rubber bands breaking. I always fit a new canvas piece and some rubber bands.
More warn out seats require one or two layers of foam before being covered.
I find that the front seats will benefit from the tying tags being drawn together using electrical wire as the supplied canvas tape often breaks after a while.
The new seat covers are of higher quality then the original factory type and as yet do not biodegrade.

Making sure you cut on the correct side of the line you can expose the metal space frame below. Make sure you use a mask and goggles when cutting the abs plastic. Pay particular attention to the wiring loom, the space frame and the front seat mounting frame, all are close to the grinder wheel as to passes around the Mehari.

These are special plastic pop-rivets; they tend to give a larger bite surface on the hidden side, and are all supplied to do the job. There is the correct number in the kit. No room for error. The old support for the floor just lifts and hooks out. The new floor can be placed into position and the front seat belt lower bolts fitted together with heavily grease rear seat runner bolt of the front seats. Working from the front to the rear, drilling and pop-riveting in the rivets seemed to be the best way to go.

The only place where the new part was not quite was under the spare wheel and I had to make a small grinder slit which was filled later.

This part of the operation is more daunting than the floor section. Mainly because it has to be done twice, once left and then right. It really is handy to have another 2+2 seater Mehari around when putting in these rear parts gussets so that measuring can be more accurate. Be extra extra extra careful here of wiring looms and space frame. The only adverse criticism I have of this kit is the silly rubber blocks which are supplied to go at “4” (so that the back of the seat can be placed vertical for storage behind the seat back or sloping for a more reclined position for the rear passengers.) are so pathetic as to be useless. See an original Citroen model of a 2+2 Mehari

Using an air operated mastic gun for smooth even application a black beeding is placed completely around the outside of the new floor.

This shows the rear seat in the “down” position for use as a load bearing Mehari…..

…….. and in the “up” position for people carrying. (You can just see the grinder slit which has now received some black mastic, and will be hidden by the spare wheel.)

Another product is the extra floor. I have had this in my own Mehari since driving to Moscow in 1990. It seems to be more durable than the original ABS one.   Protection gear used before cutting out the ABS plastic work.

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