At Escape Gear, there is great emphasis on ensuring that seat covers in no way hinder the deployment of a vehicle's driver and passenger seat side airbags in the event of a collision. High speed photography in controlled laboratory tests prove that the specially constructed ‘Red Thread’ seam in no way hinders the deployment of side airbags. In every test, side airbags deployed to maximum size, with no deforming, within average time of 8.4 milliseconds. This average deployment time exceeds the Motor manufacturers’ Industry Standard of less than 10 milliseconds. You can drive safely with Escape Gear seat covers.
Motor Vehicle Safety
Airbags provide added protection and improve the safety of both diver and passenger in the event of a collision and/or rollover crashes. These days, most modern trucks and SUVs have a steering wheel and/or dashboard airbag as well as seat-side airbags that provide protection during side impacts.
How do I check if I have airbags?
To check if your vehicle has side airbags, examine the bolster part of your seat (that is, the side of the backseat closest to your vehicle’s door). If your bolster has a sewn-in label that reads, “SRS Airbags”, it means that your vehicle is, in fact, equipped with airbags in both driver and passenger seat rests.
Airbag Design
Before buying seat covers, wouldn’t you like to know that the seat cover manufacturer will guarantee airbag deployment? Escape Gear calls this Red Thread Technology. They believe it is absolutely critical that their seat covers do not hinder the airbag deployment in the event of a collision in any way possible.
Specially Constructed Seam
Escape Gear seat covers are manufactured with a specially constructed seam, designed to burst open without slowing down airbag deployment. The seam itself is sewn with a specific breaking strength thread. A specially made side airbag sewing machine is used to sew at predetermined seam interval tension. There are only four seat cover design possibilities to accommodate side airbags; namely a void, a flap, a zip, or a seam. Of all of them, Escape Gear believes the seam offers the neatest, most functional and most practical solution for side airbags.
8.4 Millisecond Deployment
To be of maximum protection in the event of a collision, the driver and passenger side airbags must deploy to full size within 10 milliseconds of impact. Time and again in laboratory testing, maximum side airbag deployment was achieved with an average time of 8.4 milliseconds.
Tried and Tested
The design must work. Therefore, Escape Gear has done a series of laboratory tests, where vehicle seats are dressed with our seat covers. The side airbag is deployed without failure and is filmed with a high-speed camera to prove this. The footage (provided) is then run through sophisticated software that extrapolates video frames per second, into milliseconds.
Safety with a Quality Guarantee
Not only does their protective gear ensure your safety, but these seat covers look great too. All this while also fully protecting your seats ensuring your original upholstery will still be in showroom condition. Don’t cover your seats with just anything… adorn them with Escape Gear seat covers – for that unmistakable, authentic African feel.
Fabrics
At Escape Gear, they manufacture custom fit, heavy duty seat covers, dash protectors, transmission covers and a range other vehicle protective gear for your truck or SUV. Our product range can be purchased in either our specially formulated Tough Canvas or Traditional Canvas.
Polycotton Tough Canvas
Extra Strength (Charcoal Only)
What exactly makes the Polycotton Tough Canvas fabric so remarkable? In simple terms, it’s a specially formulated polycotton, a combination of both 100% authentic cotton and synthetic polyester fibres. What Escape Gear has developed is a fabric that will give you the comfort and feel of organic cotton whilst maintaining the technical features, durability and wear resistance of a synthetic product.
Long Lasting: Protect your original seat upholstery from harsh and aggressive conditions and ensure your vehicle’s interior remains in mint condition, long after you’ve moved on to another vehicle.
Comfort with Strength: Tough Canvas fabric will give you the comfort and feel of organic cotton whilst maintaining the technical features, durability and wear resistance of a synthetic product.
Water Repellent: The Tough Canvas is water repellent, extremely abrasion resistant, less prone to pilling and static and is technologically superior to most seat fabrics available on the market today.
How Tough is Tough?
At Escape Gear, all fabrics are rigorously tested in laboratory conditions emulating the most severe operating conditions to understand just how well these fabrics perform. When the equipment used to test the fabric had to be shut down after 350,000 rubs -with no obvious damage to the material- it was concluded that THIS fabric could only be called one thing: Tough Canvas.
Tough Canvas isonly manufactured in Charcoal. All seat covers are manufactured to retain the safety features of your vehicle's original seats.
Traditional 100% Cotton Canvas
Extra Comfort (Light Khaki & Grey)
Escape Gear's Traditional 100% Cotton Canvas is made from heavy-duty 500g (17oz) cotton - the heaviest grade on the market - and is intricately woven to form a compact and firm material. Not only do they fit effortlessly around your upholstery (while eliminating bunching and creasing when climbing in and out of your car) but will completely protect your vehicle’s interior as well.
Water Repellent: Water is no issue for the Traditional Cotton canvas either. The material becomes 30% stronger when wet making it water repellent, which means that spilt liquids won’t seep through.
Perfect for Summer: The Traditional Canvas is breathable, transmitting moisture away from the body, making it cool and comfortable and, therefore, works well during long-distance driving in the summer heat.
Warm for Winter: While it keeps you cool during the summer, it also provides thermal insulation, trapping air between the fabric fibres to keep you warm in winter. It is weatherproof, retaining its comfort and breathability.
Protecting Your Vehicle's Interior
Not only do they look great, but they fully protect your seats. And should you want to remove them one day – for reasons only you would know! – your original upholstery will still be in showroom condition.
Escape Gear offers two colors:Light Khaki and Grey. All seat covers are manufactured to retain the safety features of your vehicle's original seats.
FREE SHIPPING
We offer Free Shipping in the contiguous United States on all products from our South African brands.
National Luna
Eezi-Awn
Kariba
We also offer Free Commercial Shipping for Goose Gear. Please note that order cancellations on Goose Gear products are subject to a 20% restocking fee.
Orders to Alaska and Hawaii may require additional charges.
ESCAPE GEAR
All Escape Gear products are custom-made and built one at a time in Cape Town, South Africa. This means that they also ship directly from Cape Town to you using FedEx. We cut out the middle man to ensure shipping rates were not higher than necessary, but due to the international travel required, shipping prices may come as a surprise, but we assure you the product is well worth it!
Our best estimate for delivery of these single-batch products is 4-6 weeks.
NO MORE, NO LESS
The products we carry vary in size and weight as much as your delivery location. In light of this fact, we will charge you only what it costs us to ship to you, no more and no less. Unless otherwise requested, we will select a shipping option that minimizes cost. We will inform you of the cost of shipping as reasonably soon as possible. We will be happy to ship via Next Day Air, Second Day Air, or Three Day Select if you request it and are willing to pay for it.
SIGNATURE
You spent money on it and we want to ensure its safe delivery. All of our shipments are delivered with a required signature unless otherwise specified. Please contact us if you would like to remove this feature from your order. This service is complimentary.
LARGE ITEMS
Please be aware that larger items, including Eezi-Awn tents and racks and Goose Gear storage solutions, which are too large for traditional ground shipping, will require truck freight for delivery, and custom items shipping internationally are not eligible. We offer Free Domestic Shipping on these items to a commercial address. Roof Top Tents will require a loading dock or fork lift or a freight terminal close by for pick up. Roof Racks will require the ability to receive a large platform box; however Rack Feet and Rack Rail can be shipped to your residence. If you order a tent or rack from our website, contact us by phone or email and we will work with you to secure the most economical delivery of your product we can.
RESIDENTIAL
If you plan to ship to a residential address and the product is authorized to ship to a residential address, you will be charged an additional fee which is not automatically applied at checkout. Please write "Residential" in the notes section and we will contact you with a quote. If you do not make this denotation, you are responsible for all related fees and potentially the original shipping charge.
INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING
Equipt is the North American distributor for Eezi-Awn, National Luna, and Alubox. We have contractual agreements with our vendors to not ship products outside North America. An option for you would be to ship our products to a freight forwarder within the US, where you can arrange to continue their journey to your shores.
We do offer shipping to Canada. Shipping expenses will apply on all lines. Contact us directly for costs to ship to your Canadian address. We will not be responsible for any duties or fees associated with crossing the Canadian border to your residence. We ship a lot of products to independent packaging stores all along the US/Canadian border, for Canadian customers to pick up on our side. This option is very cost effective, if you have the opportunity to come to the US.
TURN AROUND TIME
We always work to ship every order as quickly as possible, but we're a small team and we ask that you read our shipping policy so that we can set the right expectations.
Unless an expedited shipping method is requested, it's best to assume that from the time we receive your order during our office hours, Monday through Friday, and add it to our queue, it takes our team a few business days to start preparing your shipment. There is also the additional shipping time based on your location from our warehouse in Salt Lake City. These transit maps offer a helpful timeline for most orders:
Please note that we do not handle or ship orders over the weekend.
HOLIDAY DEADLINES
Shipping around the holidays can get a little crazy. We do our best to get your packages out within 48 hours, but once they leave our warehouse, it's in the hands of our carriers to handle the rest. Often times they experience delays and unforeseen weather. The best way to ensure your package arrives by a certain date is to expedite the shipping, not wait until the last minute, and even order a few extra days in advance.
These "last day to order" deadlines are your best bet. We promise to ship within the timelines given to us by our carriers, but these are only guidelines and cannot guarantee on-time delivery 100% (regardless if expedited is selected):
Ground & Freight: December 13th
2nd Day Air: December 18th
Next Day Air: December 19th
RETURN CHARGES
If your order did not arrive accurately, we will pay the return shipping charges and refund to you the amount of shipping you paid on that particular product. If you received what you ordered but are dissatisfied with it, you will be responsible to pay the return shipping charges and the initial shipping charge.
Please note that order cancellations on Goose Gear products are subject to a 20% restocking fee.
