TR6 TR6 - seat covers interchange side-to-side?

[SpannerMan]

Recently acquired a used original 'take-off' set of seat covers (i.e. the original upholstery pieces, not aftermarket seat covers). They are in good shape, and are responding well to a bit of cleaning. I plan to have a local upholsterer redo my driver's seat using one of the sets of covers. They are the 70-71 (72 also?) highback TR6 seats.

Question... I know the seats themselves are different side to side- not only the recliner arrangements but also the shape, I believe. I want to use the passenger side seat cover from the newly acquired set, since it has of course seen less wear. It looks like it should work fine, to me - I don't think the covers themselves are any different. Does anybody see any problems with this though? I guess I could leave it up to the upholsterer, but I don't really want to clean up both sets of covers right now!... I am hopeful I may get done (the whole job - covers and labour) for <$350, which I would be pretty happy with.

Pete

 

[BobbyD]

Pete,
I'm reading through the VB guide that I've got posted on my site https://tr6.danielsonfamily.org/Restoration_VB_Guide.htm and on page 6 it states: "First separate the new left and right hand seat foams and seat covers. They are slightly different and should be marked left & right hand for positioning". You might want to read through the whole guide as re-doing the seats really isn't that hard of a job.

 

[SpannerMan]

Bob- Thanks for your link... I'm working my way through the guide.
I just took a more critical look at the seat base cushion covers. Now I do see there is a slight difference in the way they are cut, towards the back of the seat. I guess it is asking for trouble to try to swap sides.

Thanks again.