Northwest Seat Covers® - WorkPro™ Vinyl™ 1st Row Charcoal/Black Custom Seat Covers

These fabrics are ready to handle drywall dust, mud, rain, oil, grease and everything in-between. This is contractor/industrial seat covers made of some of the best technical materials in the industry. Their wear-rating gets full marks, so if you want seat covers to go the extra mile for you then choose a fabric from Work-Pro Series, they won't let you down.

Care & Cleaning
PVC - Polyvinyl Chloride. Vinyl is so easy to keep clean because a warm damp cloth will clean up almost anything off the top surface. The reason why GM, Ford and Dodge continue to equip their vehicles with vinyl seat covers is because it's a versatile and low maintenance fabric. The Ram 1500 ST or Tradesman is outfitted with heavy duty vinyl 40/20/40 split bench. Vinyl seating is a standard feature for many base model trucks. This may come as a surprise to some but, the vinyl/leather ratio of most factory leather interiors is about 3:2 or 60% vinyl and 40% leather. This includes vehicles like the Ford F-150 Lariat and Chevy Silverado LTZ. The corrected grain of the leather and vinyl is perfectly matched, making it very difficult to distinguish between the two fabrics. Automotive vinyl is very durable and resistant to grease and oil, making it a leader in seating protection.

Installation
Headrest and Latch Holes
In many models, headrest holes, power holes and/or latch holes are not cut. This is due to past trouble with properly aligning the covers once the holes were cut. In these cases, it was deemed better to cut the holes once the cover is properly aligned and installed. To make these holes, simply install the cover, then cut a small "X" cut over the area where the hole needs to be. Then, in the case of a latch hole, lift the cover up and slide the latch through the hole. This process ensures that the holes are placed in correct spot every time.

Choosing Your Fabric

What is the best fabric for seat covers?
From the start, NW committed themselves to providing customers with the highest quality selection of fabrics. Since they were going to be manufacturing seat covers for cars and trucks, it just seemed like a natural fit to use genuine automotive fabrics.

High abrasion is probably the most important feature for seating fabrics. Vehicle seats are subject to a fair amount of wear. Imagine how many times you get in and out of a vehicle everyday. Think about the amount of time you spend sitting on the seats, not to mention the amount of shifting around you do. Now multiply that by 365 days and the number of years and miles you'll be driving. This is why the durability of fabrics is at the top of list.

Durability
When NW first consider a fabric they always look at the Wyzenbeek test results.
This is also known as the double rub test. This is a durability test that was developed by 20th century inventor Andrew Wyzenbeek. A piece of automotive fabric is placed on top of a half-cylinder covered in a #8 cotton duck fabric. The half-cylinder then rocks back and forth simulating, in this case, the action of someone sliding into his car seat and sliding out. This is one double rub.

UV Protection
The second factor you look at is UV light protection. After many test samples, NW decided to include a grade 3.5 UV light protective coating (200 hrs). The fabric will still fade over time but, at a much slower rate. Grade 1 coatings leave fabric feeling very natural but, with almost no protection, the color black would turn to brown in one year. Grade 5 coating does a very good job for protection but, makes the fabric quite stiff. Outdoor furniture is often receive grade 4.0 - 5.0 coatings.

Flammability & Safety
The third consideration is flammability. NW fabrics are FR coating and depending on the style of fabric they'll pass either the FMVSS302 (Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard) or CPAI 84 Sections 5 and 6.

Waterproof
The fourth aspect NW take into consideration is a fabric's ability to provide waterproof protection. Most of fabrics offer high water repellency or are waterproof. Just as with outerwear, at some point due to normal use, the effectiveness of a fabric's ability to repel water will diminish. You can restore the fabric by either spraying Scotchgard on O.E fabrics or a DWR (Durable Water Repellant) on any of others.

HD Designs
Technology has really changed what NW can do with fabrics. A good example of that is the family of camouflage fabrics NW offer. Realtree, Mossy Oak, and Fishouflage all require as many as 10 screens to produce the camo seat cover patterns you all love. NW fabrics really shine in HD because of the quality of the image when using heat transfer paper and the fact that NW use durable 600 denier polyester fabrics.