Quality of slip on seat covers Vs Hog Ring

Hi there, I am giving my 1970 Bug a bit of a make-over and would like
to put on some new seat covers. Neither my partner nor I have any
experience putting on upholstery and I was therefore tempted to get the
slip on seat covers.........however there seems to be a lot of negative
opinions of these seat covers......can anyone tell me why?
Also do you think that it is possible to put on the hog rings yourself
with no experience?
I was going to order from California Pacific, Aircooled.net or
JCWhitney in the US as everything seems to be overpriced here in
Australia.
Any help pr advice would be much appreciated......thanks x

Oh and can I just add........ I think that the slip on covers might be
out....I have just discovered something that has definately made me
want to strip off the existing covers and start over.........brace
yourself, this is disgusting.
The seats that I was going to put into my bug (that have been in my
shed for the last 4 months) are infested with cockroaches. And I am
not talking the little ones, these are the giant ones and not just one
or two......my boyfriend thought he had got them all off and I have
been shaking and shaking the seats and they just keep on falling out!!
I will absolutely freak out if one of these runs up my leg when I am
driving along and most probably cause a very bad accident.
So, how hard is it to fit the upholstery sets?
I'd be interested to know if anyone has ever had a similar problem?

"Jessdownunder" > wrote in message
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>
> Oh and can I just add........ I think that the slip on covers might be
> out....I have just discovered something that has definately made me
> want to strip off the existing covers and start over.........brace
> yourself, this is disgusting........snip
>
>

..................You need to strip those seats down to the bare frames. I've
been contemplating the same work on my bug. The padding kits for the front &
back, extra sisel padding, hog ring kit and and upholstery kit at
Aircooled.Net will run almost $300 USD. Spray some paint on the frames after
cleaning them up if they need it. I'm thinking that the job will take at
least a couple of weekends for me. If you can afford it, matching door
panels & rear side panels would be nice if replaced at the same time.

"Jessdownunder" > wrote in message
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> The seats that I was going to put into my bug (that have been in my
> shed for the last 4 months) are infested with cockroaches. [...]

Yeah, those hair stuffed seats are great homes for creatures. I usually
find dead mice, usually babies in the seats.

You wanna get rid of cockroaches? Put a Trantula in the car for a month.
Then just vacuum the tiny spider turds. Don't sit on the Trantula.

Or take the seats out, put each one in a big plastic bag and pour a whole
box of mothballs in there. Let sit for a week. They be dead. Ya don't have
to remove 'em. They dry up and don't smell.

....I had my seats redone in modern car-seat foam. No critters like that
stuff.

Thanks for that, mmmm not sure about the Tarantula option but the moth
balls could be a goer.....cheers.

I got the slip on covers.

They go on easy if you put a plastic 30 gallon leaf bag over the seat
frame first.

I guess you want the foam padding and do away with the horse hair
padding.

I think you are supposed to put sisal cloth or hop sack cloth over the
frames before you add the padding.

If the frames are bent you might want to get them welded in the correct
position first.