Older Bucket seats are bouncy

Hi everyone.

I have a set of buckets in my car and the seats seem to be very bouncy. How would I go about tightening up the springs under the foam?? and still maintain the original look.

Eliminate the springs and replace them with a fabricated steel pan.

Seriously, new car seats are foam over a stamped steel shell, have been for decades.

replace the springs and foam if needed. One can also clamp the springs together with seat spring clamps.

I am going to have to look at how difficult this will be. I was pricing new foams last night and they aren't to expensive. sounds like I can do this in my garage for sure.

I will need to find these spring clamps and see what it entails. good thoughts guys thank you!!

Are the springs close enough together to use hog rings to tie them to each other? I haven't looked at the underside of seats in many years.

Someone will have to define "old", The seat springs I've had apart from the 80s - the early 00s are not close enough together to tie them together. Most of the modern seats just have spring steel straight wires running front to rear tied to an end bar they loop onto to form a wire spring steel weave sort of thing Then the seat foam may, or may not be bonded (but some just sit on top of the weave) to the spring wire weave assembly and fits snuggly into the seat frame. That seat frame breaks a lot, I've welded hundreds of them back together. Pill the cover, pull disconnect the spring weave from the seat frame and remove the foam and weld them back together. Reassemble in the reverse order.

they're online pretty inexpensive. They also have special crimping pliers for certain types. I have a butt load of them that i bought for one of the cars. They weren't available so i had to buy a full run of something like 10K pieces. Not worth the time to try and sell them.