Installing Car Seats in 2026 Tesla Model Y (Juniper)

Okay. So, I started with the front seat covers first. And um here I am installing the back cover of the the front seats. And be sure you unzip the zipper that's in the rear of it. Um, I didn't at first when I started slipping this on and they just you won't be able to slip it on without putting that zipper first. Um, you're basically just gonna uh push these all the way down. There's a tab at the bottom that you're going to push down between the seat back and the bottom of the seat and um push it to the back because you're going to want to hold that tab up later and um velcro it to itself to hold the back seat cover on. And I'm going to speed this up um so you don't have to uh see how long this took me. This did take me a long time. Took me about 3 hours total, believe it or not, to get all the seats on. It wasn't that it was that difficult. I'm not sure why it even took me that long, but I did. So, here I am finishing the back seat cover by shoving this bottom piece between the back of the seat and the bottom of the seat, which is a little difficult to get through there. Now, I'm putting on the bottom seat here, uh, cover. And um this one you also have to shove uh that piece through the bottom the the same section between the bottom seat and the back which again is a little difficult to do. It's a very tight fit in there. Okay. So, the passenger seat's going to be the same as the front. Um, I do want to show you underneath this is right underneath the front seats. There's a plastic piece here that has two just a Velcro clips. Not Velcro. Um, it's just a little plastic clip connected to a piece of bungee that you have to This is hard to do with one f one hand. I can pull back. I don't know how well you can see this if I pull back. Okay, maybe you can see a little bit better here. Here's the uh clip right here. Clips to this little hole right here. So, there's two of these that need to come off first so that you can pull the um top cover and the seat through here cuz this is blocking it if you don't take this out first. Okay, so I've slipped this one on. Again, make sure your airbag tags are on the side here where your airbags are. I'm not sure where they have these zip ties on there. They didn't explain that. Um, but what you do here is these are going to fit underneath. Sorry about that. These are going to fit in this gap between the original seat and this plastic here. Hey, so I did before is I kind of pushed it in there a little bit with my fingers. Okay, they do give you a little tool to be able to put the stuff down farther. Now, I went ahead and left these on in case once this is on, I can go underneath the seat and see whether this is, you know, maybe this helps you find it, whether these hook on somewhere underneath the seat. I'll let you know if that's true. And then this one, again, once this goes underneath here, this clipped underneath here on the other side. These straps, there's three of them. There are two of how many? Yeah, there's three of them. These are going to go under the seat and they um connect to the back of the seat cover to hold this on. Again, not sure how well you can see this. I probably should have some more light in here. Okay, maybe this will help. You can see this. This is coming off the back of the seat. This is the strap right there. Let's see. This is strap right here that came from the front of the seat. Okay. So, you put them through there, back through there, and you're just going to tighten these up. So, there's three of these. Okay. So, I got that pulled under. Now, we're going to see how much I can do with this one hand. I'm just going to try and get this initially in here a little bit. Ow. Okay, that's not good. That means I didn't strap on one of the ones in the rear. So, I'm going to have to go back there. Okay, this tool here. I was put this in better and I think I'm going to do this with both hands and then come back to it. Okay, so I got that all tucked in so it looks nice. Sorry about that. Okay, so seats are done and move to the back. Get this all put back together again. All right. So, we have this covers for the center headrest. These are the end headrests. I'm going to do those next. Those are pretty straightforward. They have the holes in the bottom. Um, zipper around the side to get them on. So, I just got to take these off and put those on. I'm going to do that next. Okay. Just so you know, these headrests, you can't just press this button. You also have to put I took a small screwdriver like this. And you have to put it in this hole and press while you're pressing this to pull it off. Okay. So, this is very quick. It just goes through the hole and zips on and has a nice snug fit to it. So, just so you know on the um rear on the middle seat rest it does not have the holes in the bottom. It kind of just wraps around and has a Velcro closure on the back. Okay. So, let me show you what I'm doing here. I have this side and I wanted to put one side in so you could see what I'm doing. So, the seat here you need to remove. Now, it actually just pops right up. If you pull at the uh front of the seat, it kind of pops right up. There's only one connection right there you need to disconnect. Although, I'm leaving it connected at the moment so I can move the seats forward and back to help uh with the installation of it. On this side, it's got a top piece so it can go through there. Uh that's where they put the zipper on this side. So, it's kind of easy to tell which side goes where. And again, this is a matter of just slipping it over and um tucking the bottom piece up underneath the seat. Okay. So, you can see in the side I already did this nice custom look on the holes. Uh basically, you take their handy dandy tool here. I'm just going to use that to tuck this in on both sides so it has a more custom look. Okay, so both seats seats are same thing. This gets tucked under the seat folds under the bottom. Um actually have the seat out so I can't show you the back, but the tab comes up underneath there. These things uh cover the little Oops, sorry for my finger. These cover the Velcro uh strips. When you pull it up under there, you can velcro this back piece there. Uh this one on the same way. Uh it was pretty easy. The only thing on this one was for the seat rest under here. On those I had to kind of uh snap up the little plastic cover because these are against soft material and they're easy to tuck under, but the ones on there are against plastic. So, I kind of took a screwdriver, just popped the cap up slightly, put the holes in, and then snapped it back down. And that seemed to work really well. Okay. And here's the back seat. And all right, this cover is just going to go in like this. And then I'm going to flip it over. Okay. So, on the back side here, you're going to have the straps here. here and here. Okay. So, I'm going to attach those first. Okay. I'm watching their directions. They had a couple of straps that are not on this one. They had one that went through these holes, but that is not there. Um, so basically this right here, which runs the entire length around this over to here, they show pulling it nice and taut and tying it together. And that is probably the last piece that needs to be tightened on this seat before I reinstall it. Okay. So, these holes probably could have been slightly larger. They do line up and you can use them, but it could have been longer, I believe. All right. So, I got that tied. All right. So, let's put the seat back in. See how it looks. Okay, guys. Uh, I found a little issue. I'm going to try and do a work around, but these little pieces here, that one, and that one, that's what clamps onto this bar and holds the seat on. Now, these straps, if you put them on first, are covering these. So, it didn't want to go on this. So, I took them off and I'm going to go underneath this instead. I'm going to try to uh lift the seat in and before I snap it down, see if I can uh strap those on and see if that works.