New Seat Cover Required
 

Hi all

As you can see from my first post in the Newbie area my XT660R is in need of a new seat cover. Now I've seen on another post that the original seat cover is around the �15 mark but it hasn't got a none slip centre section.

The following link shows a nice cover but a bit pricey (same price as a new seat). Any other suggestions?

http://www.dualsport-fx.com/shop/index.php?cPath=14_50

Cheers

Logan

I think the genuine ones are around �30 from a dealer .Ther newer ones dont have a slippery centre either

I just replace my faded blue seat cover with a black one. It doesn't have a none slip center but the side panels seem to be none slip!

Black is the most expensive option in seat covers as well, another blue would have been �30, the black was �40.

For what it's worth.

I did my own.

http://www.xt660.com/showthread.php?p=99525#post99525

Cheers for the replies guys.

So just to clarify before I order, the all black seat covers from the newer XT660R will fit all models (mines an 05/06) and none of them have a non-slip centre section.

Cheers

Logan

I ordered a seat cover for an 06 Black XTX. After checking here I knew that it was an all black seat. The anti slip is the side panels so grip with your thighs.

Based on some Yamaha peculiarity my dealer told me you can't order by the colour of the seat, you order based on the colour and model of the bike that seat comes from.

One of the black bikes had gray side panels to the seat and I wanted to avoid that.

Cheers Bishop! That's exactly my issue, my bike has the grey side panels which look awful and fade.

Will be ordering an 06 XTX seat cover then. I assume that the R and X seats are the same?

Thanks

Logan

Easy fit?
 

Hi,

so are the seat covers easy to fit yourself or do they have to be fitted by the dealer to get them nice and tight ?

Thanks

I stretched the cover over the seat and tacked it with a staple at the front and back then a staple in the middle of each side.

Then I stretched the seat and put a staple between each of these four (always stapling the diagonally opposite sides next, and stretching the material as you staple) and carried on putting staples between each of the groups that had just done until I had stapled all the way round.

If you want to tighten it a little after you have finished it, carefully take a hair dryer to it. I managed it, and I'd never done it before.