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Hey Mike - did you get anywhere with this?

One of mines just done the same! Looks like 1 bolt and 1 dirty great self tapper...

Any tips for getting the vinyl back on neatly? Presumably a good staple gun is a good place to start..?

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All 4 of my headrests came off. While they used stainless bolts, they used cheap steel t-nuts. I removed all headrests and carefully opened the upholstery on the bottom half of the headress to get access to the holes and installed new stainless t-nuts. I then cut slits into the inside of the sundeck to get to the screws so that I could reattach. I did have to replace many of the screws due to rusted t-nuts stuck to them.

I had the sundeck reupholstered last year. I had the design stiching left out and had a welded welting piece used rather than stiched welting. All of this to reduce the amount of water soaking into the sundeck cushion. Mine had about 50lbs of water in it when I took it appart.

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Hey, The same thing happen to us, Ii used toggle bolts. I placed a washer at the inside face of the headrest tand. It works out real well.

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Im approx 30 days away from complete removal of my headrests in my interior remodel portion of my boat project. I plan instead to replace the rear deck with denser/taller foam and do a more intricate design with the vinyl. Ive been looking as well as doing an integrated headrest design as well.