metafora

I recently procured a full set of leather seats for my 2005 WRX Blob Eye. They were suppose to just swap straight in without issues according to the seller.
However now I've come to do the job it turns out the driver side seat fixings are not the same and the seat won't line up with the bolt holes.
After some head scratching I realised I would have to swap the seat base frames over since I can't see any obvious way to adjust the fitting positions on the leather drivers side seat, (I may be missing something).

Anyhow I managed to remove most of the frame but came across a bolt that seems to be a Torx Star allen key type..I don't have any of these allen keys and will have to buy some.

Does anyone know the size I would need? I know they come in sets but I don't want to invest in a set and it doesn't have the correct size.

Link to pictures below, including the bolt in question.

https://imgur.com/a/Ieriv9J

The passenger side seat seems to go in without issue and looks quite swish.

TECHNOPUG

iTrader: (1)

They are SL seats from a Hawkeye, no?

metafora

metafora

Any takers on the Torx size of the bolt in the picture?

TECHNOPUG

iTrader: (1)

It'll be a 45 or 50.

boggissimo

I put SL seats in my blob WRX without any trouble, the bolt holes matched up fine. Maybe there's a difference between blob and hawk?

metafora

Thanks, I got a set from Amazon for £6 it turned out to be a 45, did the job, bolt came out nice and easy.

Now I've just got to get the frame off the cloth seat and hope it fixes onto the leather seat without issues.

metafora

If you look at the 4th and 5th pictures you can see how the fixing point for the front right is about an inch or so further to the front on the leather seat compared to the cloth seat and its not adjustable.

I've got the bottom frame of the leather seat off now and hopefully the frame from the cloth seat will come off as easily and will go on to the leather seat to allow me to bolt the seat in to the car.

Also strange how the front fixing points on both sets of seats passenger and drivers side are flaking paint and corroded slightly, but the rear fixing points on both sets are good as new.

metafora

Actually, I took a look back through my eBay purchase history, they were advertised as Hawkeye WRX STi Leather seats.

I got the full set, fronts and rear with door cards and the heated seat switches for £200 from a fellow in Glasgow.

My cloth seats are in excellent condition, I figure I'll claw back something from selling them on. Only issue I have now is the drivers seat won't have a frame but it'll be good for someone who wants to switch their existing cloth seat for a better one and dispose of their old one, that way they can reuse their existing frame.

metafora