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Old 25 March 2009, 02:27 PM
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Originally Posted by STim-r
They are the mosty comfy seat i have sat in. A friend has them as standard in his tt.

Any idea on costs of them new or used?


NEW
Recaro Seats - Pole Position Bucket Seat
£425.00

It has a seat shell of glass fibre-reinforced plastic material (GRP) , well defined seat cushion and seat back bolsters for optimum vechile control in all driving conditions , Lordosis cushions for individual support of the spinal column and special RECARO ABE-sidemounts made out of stell or aluminium.

Pricing: Product pricing is for a single Recaro Pole Position Bucket seat.

RRP: Standard seat from: £480.00 (saving £55.00 per seat)

Seat Trim Finish: All finishes are available.

Demon Tweeks (website price "from") £404.35

I haven't managed to find any second had ones.

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_t...All-Categories

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Old 25 March 2009, 02:33 PM
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Originally Posted by HT04
im after something like this.........with the parts coming out either side of your head, if you know what i mean.

good luck trying to look where your going when reversing then
Old 25 March 2009, 02:59 PM
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Originally Posted by RA Dunk
good luck trying to look where your going when reversing then
RA Dunk has made a very good point - the headrest bolsters combined with the WRC style mirrors on my car are pretty useless for reversing, but I did fudge together a fitting of the original rear view mirror to the roll cage, and so far (fingers crossed) I haven't hit anything (yet).

I also use "The Force" when reversing.
Old 25 March 2009, 03:07 PM
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Richard,

Did you fit your seat and if so how fiddly are they to fit??
Old 25 March 2009, 03:17 PM
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When i was fitting my recaro prodrive seats into my classic i got an old set of seats and butchered the subframes from them to attach what i needed along with some flat bar to the side mounts on the seats. Mines are fixed in place now as if i had tried using the runners i felt the seat was going to sit to high.
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Originally Posted by Pete
Richard,

Did you fit your seat and if so how fiddly are they to fit??
Pete

JRS Motorsport/Telford fitted for me.

I cannot be relied upon when it comes to spanners and screwdrivers

Fiddly bit, was getting the Subaru runners to fit to the base of new seat + very limited room to work around the central armrest. I think it took them a few hours (and they know what they are doing), however, if you have the right spanners and use some common sense, it is a straight forward bolt in job (not easy, but staight forward).
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I wonder if i bought a seat they,d fit mine Richard?? do they do jobs for strangers??
Old 25 March 2009, 03:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Pete
I wonder if i bought a seat they,d fit mine Richard?? do they do jobs for strangers??
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Old 18 April 2009, 08:55 PM
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Hey Dan, look what I've just found...

Spd Automotive Ltd (Japshop) Subaru Seating
Old 25 April 2009, 09:35 PM
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Some nice seats there too, I quite like the D2 one
Old 25 April 2009, 09:54 PM
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I'll look after your old ones for you
Old 25 April 2009, 10:29 PM
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Originally Posted by JonMc
Hey Dan, look what I've just found...

Spd Automotive Ltd (Japshop) Subaru Seating
Does anyone know what these seats weigh?
Old 26 April 2009, 08:31 PM
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I've got Sparco Pro Adv seats in my 2006 STi.



I used Buddy Club Seat Rails, details can be found about three-quarters of the way down this page. They're supposed to be a direct fit but they did require a tiny bit of grinding to get them perfect, to be fair it only took a couple of minutes to do though.
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Originally Posted by JonMc
Dan, you will also wish to fit a resistor (3.3ohm iirc) to the seat airbag connector otherwise your airbag warning light will stay on.

Whilst it will only advisory be an advisory come an MOT, I know how fussy you are and driving with that light on will be worse that getting it wet
sorry to dig up an old topic.

with this resistor, will the airbag work normally, or just always, because your sort of fooling the system that you are always in the seat?

oh and where do i get one?

thx rgds Robert
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You can get them from ebay or places like CPC or Maplins.

The sterrnig wheel airbag will continue to work normally. You are just fooling the airbag ECU into thinking that the seat airbag is still connected and if you have an accident will send out all of the firing signals as normal, just the seats won't fire because they aren't connected
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ah ok. cool thanx!

rgds Robert
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Originally Posted by JonMc
You can get them from ebay or places like CPC or Maplins.
sorry, but could you help a little more pls.

just started changing the seats and came across the plug. now, i have been looking at maplins and fleabay, but don't really know what to look for as there is a few different ones.
also, what do i do once i have the resistor? would i fabricate it into a plug?

any help appreciated!!

best rgds Robert
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These are what you want

50 x 3.3 Ohm 0.25w Carbon Resistors 1/4w Resistor 3R3 on eBay (end time 26-Aug-09 15:03:32 BST)

You only need one per seat, but you won't get them any cheaper than this
Old 21 August 2009, 08:11 AM
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thanx!!
these are ordered (all 50 of them!)

and once i receive them, i just plug them in??

rgds Robert
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