I was looking forward to having plaid front seats, but this is the unfortunate condition of the original upholstery on the driver seat. There is no way I can salvage this, so I will have to leave on my ugly gray seat covers a little longer (on this seat, I'll probably re-use the seat bottom upholstery and just rely on the the cover as the seat back upholstery). Go Westy! has replacement upholstery in original plaid colors, but at $500 for the set, that'll have to wait for another day.