Retrim your seats

MANY Defenders spend the majority of their working life on a farm, with a construction company or perhaps a utility company – all kinds of arduous environments. This causes an inevitable toll on soft components within the cab, such as door trims, floor coverings and, of course, the seats. The driver’s seat usually is the one to suffer particularly badly, although the passenger seat can have a hard life, too.

Brand-new replacement Defender seats are available and cost around £450 for a basic vinyl finished seat, rising to higher prices for fabric finishes and even more for leather. So if your Defender happens to have two damaged and shabby front seats, there is little change out of £1000 to have them replaced with new ones.

There is a very effective alternative though, costing a fraction of the price of new seats, and needing