pics of my new seat covers and phone mounting solution
 

there's always some questions about seat covers, so I thought I'd post some pics of my new Wet Okole seat covers. Total cost was $330, that includes the pockets on the seat backs, CCW pocket, and the shampoo kit.

they are very high quality, I happened to be at a local upholstery shop and the shop owner was even impressed. since the front set turned out so well, i'm going to be buying a set for my rear seats as well.

i'd be happy to take more detailed pictures if anyone is thinking about buying these and wants a closer look.

http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/8...atcovers01.jpg
http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/858/seatcovers03.jpg
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/1...atcovers04.jpg
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/3...atcovers05.jpg
had to take a picture of the twins!

and some pics of my cell phone mount solution (panavise in-dash mount with a proclip phone holder).
http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/4638/phonemount1.jpg
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/7743/phonemount2.jpg
http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/8840/phonemount3.jpg

wow, those do look really good!

thanks for posting the pics!

screw the seats and phone, i'm digging the pics of the heat system he's got going on beneath the drivers seat

What color combination did you go with?

It all looks good but the center console cover. That was $330 for just the fronts? I have always heard good things about wet oakely. Nice color choice. Don't think I would care to mess my dash up like that but looks like it is in a handy position.

the inner color is charcoal. i requested color samples from wet okole, which was a good thing because i ended up choosing charcoal instead of light gray and i'm very happy with the results.

yeah i agree, i have been pondering how to make the center console better. i think i can tighten that one wrinkle out. i've been searching for a way to put the seat cover under the plastic molding around the cupholders....that's what led me to go the upholstery shop. the guy said there was no way to get the plastic molding off without cutting it, so i just gave up and put the seat cover on top.

$330 shipped. if you skipped the extra pockets and shampoo kit, it would be $285 shipped.

Very nice! What do they feel like? Are they like SCUBA gear material (wetsuits)? Was there a smell to them, and if so, did the shampoo help to eliminate this?

Oh, and your twins are beautiful. Always gotta keep the family close at all times! :thumbsup:

Nice covers! :thumbsup:

That is all it took for me to decide to get the same ones for my truck.

I prefer to carry my gun on my person, though. ;)

That is absolutely frightening that you are allowed to drive around with guns like that. I don't get it.

In the event that someone wanted to harm/attack you or your family, you wouldn't want to be prepared? As my dear old mother used to say, "It is better to have and not need, then to need and not have". Of course she was probably talking about a clean pair of underwear...

It's absolutely frightening to me that there are people who are absolutely frightened of guns. :eek:
I pray every day that I will never need to use my weapon in defense of myself, or my family, but rest assured, if that time ever comes, I am ready and willing to do what is needed.

If you don't get it by now, chances are, you never will. :(

I definitely dig the way the seats came out! the gun holders is pretty freakin sweet too! looks good!!!

Hey these are trucks.....a lot of folks are packin' heat. Don't tell me you think the bad guys won't have guns if we outlaw them. Please.

Love the covers......

I must be missing something. I am new to this forum but I do not see any pictures. Is it me

i see them and everything looks great. nice job.

Now thats what I call heated seats :)

USP .45's w/hogue grips? very nice. I have a .40 USP that I enjoy very much.
Nice integration into the seat covers though haha

I'm Canadian and I do get it, however in a country where there's no "Second Amendment".... the concept of feeling threatened to the point that there is a justifiable need to bear arms even though the Amendment that supports it.....was adopted 259 years ago... .........is as Munshaw says.. "frightening"

:surrender:


BTW, really nice cover job!!

If they take my guns away I will just run your A#@ over with my truck. I prefer the guns as I dont get my paint scratched.

Lucky for you, Canada has no CRIME. What difference does it make how long ago the 2nd amendment was adopted? Did I miss the part where the jails became empty because crime has become a thing of the past?

I guess we can all leave our doors and windows open, and leave our keys in our vehicles. When that day comes, I will gladly melt my guns down for a new boat anchor, but I'm not holding my breath on that one...:glare:

Oh, and BTW, I like your user name!:thumbsup:

love the seat covers. as a Canadian I had to laugh at this part. "I guess we can all leave our doors and windows open, and leave our keys in our vehicles." I got home last night around 1:30 am. Front door unlocked. Guess where the keys for my truck are. In the centre console :)

let me guess.... you voted for Hope and change.... hows that working out for ya? I have an SR9c in the center console and an LCP on my hip

Being Canadian I guess I don't get it either!! I actually like to fire guns. I have done it before and thought it was fun! I like to shoot targets though! I don't own a gun nor will I own a gun. I prefer Maple!! Just kidding. I am not scared of the gun or people having guns in their vehicles. There are many hunters with rifles/shotguns in their trucks.

I am truly SCARED of the PERSON with the gun!! The old saying "guns don't kill people, people kill people"

I would hate to encounter someone that is having a bad day and I inadvertently do something to piss them off and then they pull out a gun and then we all have a bad day!!

To each his own though! I guess it is in the way you are brought up and your belief structure. LOVE not HATE with TOLERANCE is what I try to bring to the world every day!! (and yes people do some stupid things)

because coming across someone with a knife of baseball bat is better? I just don't get that mentality. So you ban guns and no one kills anyone ever again? ha! I carry for the 3 other people that are with me.... my wife and kids. NO ONE will ever harm my family without me doing everything in my power to stop it.

Oh... nice seat covers OP:thumbsup:

My cousin was killed when he was 17. A guy beat his skull in with a big rock..can we ban rocks too?

Ban guns and have piece. The world has a longer history of battles without guns then with them. More battles and more people were killed before the gun was invented.

The Roman Empire took over all of Europe without guns.

Hey, I said I get it...

I'm also guilty of leaving my doors unlocked and keys on the console, and I'm comfortable feeling at ease and happy knowing my family and property are safe..... without a firearm intervention program on my part.

Does this make me a bad person, or the country I live in, any less?

I'm just sayin'... to each his own,..... respect!!:)

Digging the seat covers. I'm thinking about not getting leather and getting a set of these and I have a couple questions for you or anyone else that has them.

1. How are they when you get in after a bike ride? Do they repel water and sweat or does it soak in?
2. Anyone have pics of the heated option and how they hook up to the truck? (Not the heaters pictured here, the system to keep your butt warm :) )
3. Can anyone tell me how they are with static electricity? I've noticed that on non leather interiors I get shocked every time I leave the vehicle.

I like the idea of these seat covers instead of leather but I also like heated seats and reduction of static electricity.

The other things I see here are that you can fit your bike in the cab. That's awesome. One of the reasons I like this truck is the room in the cab, and this just drives the point home. I didn't realize that it was that big. (Don't have one yet, waiting for the EB :) )

if it makes you feel any better, that picture was just for illustrative purposes. usually i only carry my Glock 27 around. :)

but all joking aside, myself and all others with a concealed carry permit have subjected ourselves to a scrutinizing background check, fingerprinting, and have had to pass a class in firearms safety and responsible carrying. when was the last time you met a criminal carrying a gun around who did all that? trust me, WE are not the problem. it's the criminals who don't care about the law that are the problem.

to any open-minded people i would suggest this site: http://gunfacts.info/

i went out and poured some water on the seat and you can see the result:

http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/9...atcovers06.jpg
pretty much, it just gets absorbed. wet okole advertises them as waterproof, so i'm not sure what they mean by that. i'm pretty sure that if i kept soaking them, eventually some water would come through the other side (but i'm not going to try it).

the seat covers are surprisingly thick, and there is a substantial amount of padding on the underside, so i'm not too worried about anything reaching my seats, for the types of things that i'll be doing.

i can't comment on the heaters, since i didn't get that option when i bought them.

i haven't had any problems with static electricity yet, but i've only had them a week. i would be surprised if the neoprene material caused static build up.

and yes, the amount of room in this truck is always surprising me!

your seat covers look great, and so do your twins:thumbsup:

The seat covers look great, I'm looking at the Katskinz as well in leather which are very nice. Have to add as a Canadian I'm quite envious of your conceal/carry and your second amendment rights. The left wing nanny state up here still refuses to abolish our gun registry, which happens to be the first step towards confiscation. If I'm not correct isn't your right to bear arms in America not just a protection from criminals but from the tyranny of the state?
"If circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude[,] that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens." (Alexander Hamilton)

Well said. :thumbsup: The sad thing is that even with that right I do not think there is a large enough group of Americans that will ever stand up to fight the over reaching government. It should have already happened IMHO. US governement is out of control

There is a big problem when the IRS is carring guns.

Excellent, insightful posts guys!

I think I know why I can not see the pictures. Are they embedded in the post or are they on a separate server. I am in China and they may be blocking the second server. I see pictures in other post just not this one. Thanks

I lived in the PNW for years and would carry when I went fishing. No I didn't shot the fish, but I would walk into the river about half mile or 1km into the woods. On many occasions I would walk in on a bear or two once in a great while a big cat. No I did not shot them I left them alone and they left me alone. The only way I would have shot them if they came after me. Guns have there places and people will always find a way to get them if they want them bad enough, good or bad they have there place and yes there is one in my truck and one in my wife's. Each of my daughter have concealed carry permits also and I am pretty sure they carry. When my grand-kids hit the age of 5 or 6 I show them how to respect and handle guns by the time they are 12 to 14 they will each be given one. Teach them young teach them right you have no problem.

In the post.

they are on the imageshack server

yeah they are on imageshack. sorry everyone in china :(

you called it! good eye. probably my favorite guns to shoot.

Thanks I thought I was just missing it. I will be home on the 2nd and take a look to see I can see them.

http://i51.tinypic.com/17u51d.jpg
I put mine up above the mirror. :)

Right, China is blocking the pictures, because they don't want the millions of Chinese to see what a free country really is, that allows their citizens to arm themselves.

You would be surprised to see what they block over here. I sure was. As for guns over here I think I trust them more with guns then some other countries I have visited in teh last few years.

Gun Control
 

Gun Control really doesn't keep guns out of the hands of criminals. Thankfully here in Ontario, criminals mainly shoot each other.
It really is hard for me to believe that you need to carry a gun everywhere because of the perception that the criminal is just waiting to harm your family. I would be far more worried of my 4 yr getting a hold of a loaded weapon.
I have been involved in 4 separate accidental shootings of family members in the last several years and only 1 shooting of an apparent innocent victim, and that was a drive by shooting.
Are car jackings and home invasions that prevellent in the USA?

This thread has been hijacked by political views on the right to carry a gun.

i forgot to show how the seat covers work with the seat-deployed airbags. basically they have a slit cut in the sides, with overlapping flaps that conceal it. you don't even notice it. just an fyi if anyone is thinking about getting these....make sure to select the option for the seat-deployed airbags.

http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/731/seatcovers07.jpg

I don't know anyone who's ever been killed by a drive by knifing.

I think the thread has once again been hijacked by gun control advocates. What started as a cool picture of seat covers with the option for gun storage quickly became an opportunity for nervous lefties to voice their disapproval and moral superiority. I'm thinking some of these folk would be more at home on the "Toyota Prius" forums.:gunsmilie:

Well I am back in the states and I see pictures so the Chinese must have been blocking them.

stand on the side of my driveway

Charming.

Ya don't ya just love bad arsses? :jester:

Dang bro, that is some serious frequent flyer miles there!
Are you military?

:)

Why does your smile scare me Lenn?

It should.... It should.

What was this thread about anyways...

Oh yeah, seat covers.

You've whet my appetite and have got me looking into putting some Katzkins on mine. Man they are nice, but they sure do cost a pretty penny. Gonna have to do some footwork and check around.

just do all of us cops a favor and let us know about those beautiful twins when we pull you over! i am a full believer in the right to bear arms! law enforcement or the responsible gun owner, i dont care! i run into people all the time that shouldnt have guns and it scares the hell outta me....but thats why all of us responsible gun owners need to have our guns...to protect us from the evil that is our non law abiding society! BTW you seat covers are nice too!!!

Enjoy your freedoms everyone!

WOW...I like him! :thumbsup:

Me too.............................

almost as much as dumbass liberal hippies:censored:

Depending on which state I'm in, I will do so as required by law.

As for Indiana, and here in Pennsylvania, it will be my little secret.:)

I'm interested in exactly how the airbag can deploy through the seat cover. Is it so powerful that it will just push through the seam, or is the stitching very weak at the edge where the airbag is?

Yes, the air bags are crazy powerful! I teach vehichle extrication classes for my department and we will demonstrate by taking an airbag out and placing it between the door and a 165# dummy and set it off! Needless to say it will shove the dummy across the vehichle and leave good amount of damage to the door!! So yes it will if it was designed that way but he said it has slit and a flap that overlaps to cover the slit.

Thanks, have been looking for a while now and to see the CCW option in real life is great, I have been stuffing my XDm 3.8 .40 between the seat cusion and the middle seat but dont want to tear it up!!

Also I will chime in following my other comments on the tread. To the nieve people out there that think this world is all hunky dory with rainbow and puppy dog kisses should pick up the paper or read the news!! Just in my area in the last couple of weeks we have some nut going around shooting Marine recruiting stations, the pentegon, the Marine Corps museum and now a Coasty recruiting station! Most of these attacks have happened within 3 miles of my home and it is only a matter of time before said nut gets board hitting buildings and graduates to people!! Remember a little story about the DC sniper??? Well a few of those were also within a few miles of my home! The scary part is that I live in a very affluent area with $600,000 homes so it just shows that "want money,criminals will travel" and "have guns,will travel" will be me!!! If you carry part time you might as well not carry at all as you will never know when and where a criminal will attack!! I would love to see the face of the carjacker when you pull the .45's on him!!! OOOOOPPPPPSSSSS is what he will be thinking!

that's exactly right...i could pull back on the flap you see in the picture and you would see the seat underneath. it's completely open, there's just a flap of material that covers the hole (aka slit). the "seam" you see in the picture is just the stiching on the edge of the flap. pretty nice way of doing it, i think.

Seriously, why are you even on this forum? You just spew poison! You sure as heck don't help anyone or seem to care but in fact mock members! Is there not an offtopic section ya can throw ur type banter around that might be accepted? :blink:

why would you not want to share with a police officer that your have two handguns right between your legs if you get pulled over?! if you have nothing to hide and are carrying within the laws limitations why keep it a secret...trust me, police want to know if you have weapons in your vehicle, especially if they are concealed in a position like that...even if your doing nothing wrong, they like to know....im just curious why you would want to hide your weapons from law enforcement....im assuming you have your cc permit?

Because in some states it is not required by law to reveal you are carrying. It is a courtesy to reveal to the officer. If he is stopping you for say speeding or busted tail light then there is no need to reveal as it does not pertain to the situation. Revealing could also put the police on the defensive and treat the citizen different than a non carrying citizen.

I'm not against guns. I'm against the mentality demonstrated in the quote.

Looks great but in the past, Wet Oakle seat covers have been notorious for fading even with the UV additive

in regards to your previous post where you talked about what states you would be in...where do you live that allows your ccw to cross state lines? just curious...i respect your decision not to tell the police about the twins...maybe you live in a bigger area than i work in...i work a rural area where everyone has guns...most people in my area know its best to let the police know about their weapons in a vehicle. maybe not the same in your area...sorry im just mainly picking your brain bc this stuff interests me!

^^^sorry i mixed up two posts! my bad...though 09xlt was one who commented then just realized it was rescue!

im not being rude here guys i just like learning what the ordinary citizen thinks about this subject. since im a LEO i think different about this issue...but like to hear everyones opinions!

How/when do you suggest a person tell you that they are carrying at a standard traffic stop that won't make a 'typical' officer think to himself, "Oh sh#%!"?

If someone were to tell you that they had two 45's under their seat, would you just be like, "Oh, okay" as if they had told you they had a couple of baseball bats under there? Or are you all trained to shift gears even if they have their CCW and everything is kosher and legal?

I don't carry (legally or illegally) but have thought about getting my CCW. But w/all of the sterotyping AND truth of young black men illegally carrying firearms, I just wonder how an officer of the law might respond if i were to tell him that I was carrying even if everything were completely legal.

It's not like a big black guy in a big black truck is the most unassuming thing for a cop to be walking up to. I'm just saying...

First thing foremost, there is not "typical, or routine" traffic stop...however you have to take into fact where you live...do you live in a major city? i do not live in a major city and am not an officer in major city...if someone says to me "i have a firearm in my vehicle but i have my permit" i dont get alarmed...a good way to start off if you get pulled over would be so say "sir/mam i just want you to know, i have a permit to carry concealed and i do have a firearm in the vehicle". having your hands visible during this and not digging for registrtation or license is great. i handle firearms everyday of my life and i respect those that carry...this is why i like to be told if someone has a firearm when im dealing with them. i get alarmed when i have a person very nervous, moving around alot, and i see a firearm that i have not been told about....my theory is, if someone is doing nothing wrong they shouldnt have a problem telling the police they have a gun in their truck/car...

i cant tell you how the police in your area may react. i can just tell you how i would react. my thought on this is if you are carrying a gun legally, black or white, it makes no difference. YOU HAVE YOUR RIGHT to bear arms if you do it legally....and im a believer in that!

you opened your pie hole up first sally:thumbsup:

My North Carolina concealed carry permit has reciprocity with all of the southern states (of course!) and many others as well, including Indiana (see list berlow). You are responsible for knowing the specifics of the concealed carry laws in the state you are visiting.

So when 09_XLT visits North Carolina, because he is a responsible gun owner, he knows that the law here says that you must:

Disclose the fact that you have a valid concealed handgun permit when you are approached or addressed by any law enforcement officer in North Carolina.
Inform the officer that you are in possession of a concealed handgun.
Present both the permit and valid identification at the request of an officer




AlabamaKentuckyOklahomaAlaskaLouisianaPennsylvania ArizonaMichiganSouth CarolinaArkansasMississippiSouth DakotaColoradoMissouriTennesseeDelawareMontanaTexa sFloridaNebraskaUtahGeorgiaNevadaVirginiaIdahoNew Hampshire (resident permits only)WashingtonIndianaNorth DakotaWest VirginiaKansasOhio Wyoming

I agree with dgiancola. If I have you stopped for any reason, I'd like to know you're armed. Finding out on my own during the contact could have unpleasant results. In MD, it's virtually impossible for an average citizen to get a permit to carry. In those rare instances I've come across a legally armed person they've always told me (as required) they were armed and handed me their permit card along with their identification. They weren't treated any differently that someone I didn't know was armed. We live in an incredibly violent and thoughtless society and I don't begrudge anyone for wanting to protect themselves legally. Back onto topic, those seat covers with the dual holsters are sweet!

along this topic i posted a tragic story of someone who was killed by police while legally carrying in a new thread here:

https://www.f150forum.com/f15/concea...36/#post639015

i would love to hear from the LEOs in here about this story.

if you are not legally required to report a concealed weapon in your state, could the act of reporting it cause unnecessary tension and escalate a routine traffic stop into something it shouldn't have been? i think it depends on the police officer to a large extent.

i've heard this rumor and all i can say is i'm hoping for the best. i don't think my black/charcoal colors would look too bad IF they fade. i'll post more pictures in a year and we'll see how they do.

After clicking that thread and reading the link posted there, this is how I feel...

Wow....that is effed up. I am at a loss for words. That makes completely no sense to me. What were those officers thinking? And even after he was shot once in the chest and on his knees, why did they continue to fire?? Is this SOP?? Whatever happened to "With great power comes great responsibility"? Who is held accountable for something like this?

My questions could go on and on. I can't even begin to imagine how his family feels.

I seriously think that put a damper on my day.

You obviously have a grudge against police... Posted the same thing in two threads? Fail.

You got me.

Nope not any longer I retired form the Navy in 1998. I travel for my new job I just went over 155000 miles this year and over 500,000 miles in the last 4 years.

Wow...that sounds crazy and great at the same time.

With all that flying I sure hope that your job puts you in first class!

but why do you need 2 guns, in case 1 doesn't fire?

Most officers here in Texas seem to treat me with more respect when I hand them my card. I'm honest, tell them what I have and if it's loaded. They ask me to step away and there's never been a problem. I'd like to not be able to tell them what I have in the car but as stated before with power comes responsibility and I will respect an officer's safety as well as my own. I always keep both my hands on the steering wheel at all times until directed otherwise. I'll put it this way. Before I got my card I had 4 tickets, since....0. lol I have a .45 under the drivers seat, a .38 special either on me or in the console and a legal sawed off 20g pump under the back seat when I'm traveling. Which I do a lot of. You never know now a days when someone could go crazy. I don't want to be a victim. I'd also like the opportunity to save someones life if the situation presented itself.

I leave my doors unlocked and windows open and keys in the truck all night long....but I still see the need for firearm :yes:

I have two guns....one for the each of ya.

In response to the that tragic news story that involves the ccw subject getting shot and killed, its hard to monday morning quarterback other officers and how they reacted to a certain situation. the only issue i see with this story is that they make it sound like the victim was so innocent. heres what the avg person doesnt see when you go to a call like that, the officers have no way of knowing who they are dealing with and whether or not they have a ccw or not. all they know is guy with a gun. even if someone says they have a ccw in a situation like this (blown out of proportion by clerks) the police still have to be cautious....anyone can say they have a ccw and then pull a gun and start shooting.

this call had to have been blown out of proportion by the store employees. This is probably the same for when they called 911. The police probably had reason to believe this situation was more than it was (helicopters, multiple squads).

next thing i will address, the victim should have NEVER reached for anything! to me thats just stupid...tell them all day you have a ccw with your hands up...dont reach down for something!! its no wonder he got shot....

now last....i say this is a good shoot, if the victim was really reaching like the story states....however, i dont agree one bit with all thre officers continuing to fire once he is down. shoot to stop, according to the story the first shot stopped him.

i know everyone will be like "ahhh wtf you think that was ok!!" but just put yourself in polices shoes....guy with gun, giving him verbal commands, hes not listening, says he has ccw and a gun, reaches for something in wasteband.....turned out to be a sad tragic story....but again we dont have all the facts...

un ya... they are HK... not like he has GLOCKS :D

haha! love it!! my 27 goes with me everywhere!! 22 for duty, 23 beside the bed....love my little .40 family!

because I didn't have enough money to buy 3!

Very well put IMO. :thumbsup:

21sf on the night stand... 19 for the range, 36 on my hip

also have an SR9C and LCP... but they are on their way to a new home Friday so I can fund a 10mm glock:thumbsup:

Are those Weathertech floor mats?..... was thinking of getting some

This thread has been jacked at gunpoint...

LOL Dre.:D

Yeah, 99% sure they are.

I like the twins better than all the rest of it, I fought so you could do just that, it doesn't frighten me in the least, it seems rather normal.

yep. best investment you can make to protect your carpet.