Once I'm faced with having to remove the seat cover to perform a repair, I leave that to a professional. Fortunately for me, I have a local upholstery shop (Bucket Stitch) in my locale that is excellent at all types of leather and/or upholstery work. Some of their custom work is absolutely gorgeous! Shop probably does more custom work (e.g., street rods) than anything else.

I had them redo the headliner in my 2007 Coupe earlier this year. I took the headliner out, they re-covered it, & I put the headliner back in. I was really scared about pulling the A-pillar trim off and took my car over to their shop. The owner came out & removed both trim pieces for me - no charge!!!