RV Designer GripFit+ Motorhome Seat Cover - Single Pack

Video Transcript for All About the RV Designer GripFit Motorhome Seat Cover

Hello neighbor, this is Curt with etrailer, and today we're taking a look at the RV Designer GripFit+ Universal Motor Home seat covers. Now, these are gonna be a great way to protect either new seats in your motor home, or if you've got some older seats that are starting to crack, you know, you could cover 'em up with these, help keep 'em nicer looking and help keep them clean. We're gonna talk to you about what makes them different from other motor home seat covers, and we're gonna show you how to install them as well. Now, it's important to note that these are universal seat covers, so you're not gonna get as good as a fit as a custom seat cover, but from a price standpoint, they're gonna be much less expensive than doing that and less time consuming as well. The installation for these, as you'll see later on, is very easy. They do have anchors on them though, which does keep them in place, and to me that makes 'em a lot superior to the, what I call a bag style of universal seat covers, which are essentially just a loose piece of the cloth that goes over your seat back and your seat itself maybe has one or two straps in the back just to keep the back rest portion up.

But they generally don't have armrest covers and they do have a tendency to shift around a whole lot on you. These on the inside have a little bit of a grip texture as well as these small hooks on these elastic straps that are gonna help you anchor it and keep it from shifting around a whole lot on you. Now just because these are universal doesn't mean that they're gonna fit just every RV chair that you come across. For instance, this is not going to work with RV seats that have integrated seat belts or have integrated airbags. These are best really, in my opinion, for the captain chairs like this that have the arm rests as well.

Now if you are curious that these are gonna fit your seats, the seat back dimensions are going to fit anywhere from 28 up to 32 inches tall. They are going to be 19 to 22 and a half inches wide, and these do have a bit of a stretch to them, so that's why you get those two or three inch increments when it comes to those. The seat itself can fit 21 to 23 inches wide and 18 to 20 inches deep. Now these are made of a PVC leatherette vinyl style surface. It's gonna make it very easy to clean and also very pet friendly.

It's gonna wipe very, very easily and with those anchors keeping it in place, unlike those bag styles, you could easily run a small vacuum over this and get a quick cleaning on 'em as opposed to those bag styles when they're looser fitting, the vacuum has a tendency to grab onto it and they're very, very difficult to get clean. Now, on the seat back and on the seat itself, we've got a thin layer of this foam padding, that's just gonna add to the comfort of those long drives in between campsites. Another really neat feature about them as well is that on either side of you, you're gonna have this nice little pocket right here, and this is gonna be great for all those different remotes that you tend to have in your RV. You can keep your cell phone in it or just a handful of snacks while you you're driving down the road. Now the installation on this is fairly simple, these plastic tubes right here, these are anchors that are gonna get tucked into your seat seam here and here.

So when I'm lining this up, I like to kind of have those in the place where they're going to be. And what I'm gonna do is just kind of bring this portion up and over my back rest and then just kind of tug on it down On these particular seats, it's a little bit looser fitting. These are on the smaller side of what these seat covers are meant for. One of the things that I learned when putting in the driver's side is that if you pull down and tuck it in inside of the armrest right here, you tend to get a better overall fit on your seat back right out of the gate. But once I do that, I'm gonna come underneath and I'm gonna tuck these in to my seat seam there. It's gonna be difficult to show on camera, but I'm gonna get those kind of back and anchored down in there, and that's gonna keep both portions kind separate and keep the shape as you're driving down the road. Now, with all that in place, I'm gonna go ahead and put the seat bottom part on. Now we do have a nice elastic band going around the front portion of this, so feel free to kind of pull and tug on it to get it around the shape that you need it to. But essentially I'm just gonna be just getting it all into place just like this before I hook my straps in underneath. Now the thing about these straps that I'm just gonna say off the bat, we've got these small hooks, these are gonna anchor into several different places, but what I'd encourage you to do is get underneath your seat and double check that you don't hook these into anything that's an actually a moving part. Get under your seat, swivel it, and you should be able to find yourself some anchor points for this to go on. You can use those zigzag springs that go underneath the seat. A lot of times, like on this particular set, there is a plate underneath that it's swiveling on attached to the bottom of the seat that has several holes drilled into it. These slid through there just fine, and basically you've got four of them. You've got two up here in the front under your pockets just like this. So you'll have one going around the front and one going around the side. Now one of the things about this fit that you're probably not gonna like from a look standpoint is the way that it interacts with the skirting. All the skirting down here underneath these RV seats is different depending on the vehicle, but in this particular case, we just kind of had to work our way around it. Now the cool thing is, is it's really just in the front here under your feet. So from the back, it's not actually all that visibly noticeable or different. And once you get those in place though, the next thing you want to do is grab these adjustable straps that I've got here. I'm gonna make sure that it's not wrapped around my seatbelt over here and not interfering with it whatsoever. And I'm just gonna bring these around and get them attached. Now these can be loosened and tightened, but these right outta the box end up fitting this one perfectly. Also, if your seat back is pretty loose, there's a toggle back here that you can use to cinch that up and get it tight. Now, when it comes to the armrest, these are pretty simple. These are gonna basically go on here like a sock. What you wanna make sure of though is that this part here, as opposed to this part with the cutout right here, is facing on the outside. So they are gonna be side specific, but we wanna make sure that we just basically slip this over just like so and pull it all the way back. Now at this point, what I recommend is just kind of making sure that you get this tucked in pretty good back here. If you, it's a tight fit already and you can't really fit it, you know, some kind of a shim tool or something like that that you could just use to tuck that in there, something flat just to kind of get it into that crease really good. And then I'm gonna just gonna bring down and around that elastic part there to anchor it in. So for anybody looking to protect their seats in their new motor home, or anybody that has an older motor home and the seat material is starting to crack or look dingy or damaged a little bit, maybe upholstery is kind of outta the question in an older motor home as well as seat replacement. These are a fantastic way to cover up those blemishes and cracks. Get them a lot better looking, but also kind of protect them and keep 'em clean and just make 'em very, very low maintenance. So that's a look at the RV Designer GripFit+ Universal Motor Home Seat Covers. Once again, this is Curt with etrailer. Thanks for stopping by.