What has your experience with seat covers been?

[Krispy]

I am looking into a seat cover for my 96XP. This will be a birthday gift from my wife.

The way I see it I have 5 options.

1.Jet trim (too much $ for my budget)
2.mline (looks good on the website, haven't heard any actual feedback) a bit expensive but doable.
3.blacktip, looks ok. Good price point, however a bit common.
4.Generic ebay cover, basically a stock replacement at a great price.
5. Buy marine vinyl and make my own cover(see above )

What have your experiences been with these options? Any other ideas?

Any tips on material choices? I am what you would call an aggressive rec. rider. As in, I don't currently race, but I have been to a few races and may run the bouys from time to time for fun.




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[LouDoo]

My only experience is with Blacktip, and you can get a custom cover, I did. It took a whole afternoon but the results were well worth it. You will absolutely need an air stapler, a heat gun unless you can do it on a sunny day, and use stainless steel staples. I don't know if you can or want to wait, but I got mine half price on black friday.

Lou

 

[suke]

I like my blacktip cover. Was super cheap, since I bought it on black friday. Plenty of extra material, and seemed to stretch well once warmed up. I tossed mine in the dryer for 5 mins or so. Got it nice and warm and made it quite pliable.

 

[Jetskigoodies]

Jettrim is my vote. I am just a rec rider. Personal machines get the jt treatment, all other get just marine grade vinyl with a seadoo stenciled on with vinyl paint

Worth every penny.

Those wrinkles have since been fixed too

 

[racerxxx]

I bought vinyl from yourautotrim.com, cost me like $16 plus shipping. I never wrapped a seat before, I tried the hair dryer with no extra results. [MENTION=51350]Jetskigoodies[/MENTION] has told me that wrapping the HX seat was one of the harder ones to do. This took me 3 hours doing it by myself. I too used the Harbor freight stapler. I'll say total with the stapler and staples and material I'm around $60 into the seat. The Jet Trims are real nice, I was sold on an Mline for my XP but ended up getting a clean OEM wrapped 99 SPX seat instead.

http://www.yourautotrim.com/shcafi.html

More pics here:
http://www.seadooforum.com/showthre...ay!-Project-HX&p=310930&viewfull=1#post310930

 

[Jetskigoodies]

The hx is harder to do because the front corners are very flexible and then the rest of the base for the hx is a really hard plastic. I too use the harbor freight nailer and I buy ss staples from Home depot.

 

[SabrToothSqrl]

I bought a whole seat for my 99 GSX for about $30 more than a cover kit was. Install time: 15 seconds.

 

[tshaw]

I like my blacktip it was black friday sale. Although most 96 xps that I see that I like better then my own have a jet trim on it. Heres a used one so would be a lot cheaper then new and not sold on color scheme. http://item.mobileweb.ebay.com/viewitem?index=0&sbk=1&nav=SEARCH&itemId=111051054061

 

[Krispy]

Thanks for all the feedback guys.

Currently I am leaning to M-Line.

This is a sample seat they have and I am quite fond of it. I would replace the red with yellow however.



Here is a mock up of the color layout I did in power point.



What do you think? I was thinking of something medium slip like for the top surface, say black CF, and then standard marine vinyl on the back (black) and sides (yellow)

Finally this is a mock up of the final look of the ski when I am done. Credit to PWCGraphics.com for the graphic on the top, I used it as a guideline to make the one on the bottom using paint and power point.

 

[Minnetonka4me]

My brother had an mline on his 99...its a very nice seat cover but only lasted about 6 years, where as my JT seat that was older still looked new.

If you plan to keep it a long time spend the extra $$ and go JT.

Ive read that the black tip is on the thin side...Ill be installing one for a customer's ski next week.

 

[Greg]

Hydro Turf seat cover is another option you have as well check this out: http://goo.gl/56QSc

And you get 15% off with coupon code HYDRO15

 

[Krispy]

Hydro Turf seat cover is another option you have as well check this out: http://goo.gl/56QSc

And you get 15% off with coupon code HYDRO15

Oh, thats another option I didn't know about. Thanks,

I guess I am between the hydro-turf and the m-line.

I think I like the style of the m-line a bit better, however pwcmuscle is a trusted vendor.

Can anyone offer any advice to sway me one way or the other, or show me pics of a hydroturf on a yellow XP?

 

[Greg]

Here is a video of the guys over at jetskidetailing.com installing a hydro turf seat cover on a XP

[video=youtube;T-WlWifL3lo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-WlWifL3lo[/video]

Here's an image of a yellow seat.. All the colors are fully customizable with HT covers as well.