Leather trunk strap repair guide *photos*

As many of us have dealt with the junk trunk straps Ferrari uses in our cars which have broken to hold the toolkit and air compressor, I set off to repair mine on my 458 with new good looking high quality leather straps and new rivets.

The leather straps are actually a very high quality leather dog collar from Amazon, and then I bought a rivet gun set from Amazon as well. You need to use the rivets form the extra rivet set I bought which are long enough to penetrate the thick leather dog collar and the trunk.

I drilled out the old rivets to remove them and then in a close location to not reuse the same holes, I drilled new holes and then used a rivet gun to install the new rivets.

I bought two dog collars and cut them both in half, with one set used for the left and other side for the right in the trunk. I drilled small holes through the dog collar locations as well where I planned to rivet them into the trunk.

link below of the specific dog collar and rivet gun I used for anyone interested in a similar project. All in all this took me about an hour in my garage.

There is some company selling new straps for $140, which is a rip off as these $22 dog collars do a superb job and the buckles look great.

Dog collar: $22 each. Buy two in black size XL: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B09FXTRRVT?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

Rivet gun: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B083S9LMLH?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

Rivets set (the one that comes with the rivet gun are too small for the thick leather dog collar): https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08QRRJZFD?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

Photos…

Don’t mind the mess from the wires in the center…those are from my Scuderia Audio system. Need to find some good way to cover/wrap them that looks good.

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I did not remove the tub. I just drilled out the rivets and they came out. On the drivers side I didn’t hit any metal plate but on the passenger side I had to move my drill and put the new holes in a different location because for whatever reason it was impossible to drill new holes through the metal plate. If I removed the tub I could have more easily gotten to the metal plate and did a cleaner job, but I was too lazy to go through that level of effort!


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