Modify seat, lumbar support

[Ole Stokkeland]

I just bought a A2 with ordinary seats. Both I and my wife are missing some extra support in the lumbar region of the seat. It is too cumbersome to place a pillow each time we drive the car. Do you have any experience on opening the seat back and adding some support inside?
Ole

 

[spike]

Hi Ole, welcome to the A2oc
I considered adding lumbar support to my standard SE seats once but the parts for ONE seat cost over £350. It appears from the parts book that all the bits could be added without changing the standard backrest but I never checked how easy the conversion would be.

This web site is useful if you want to check out the parts yourself. Registration is required but its free.
http://www.vagcat.com/

Cheers Spike

 

[Skipton01]

The easiest thing to do would be to lookout for a set of sport seats, from either an A2 or TT, as the seats can just be swapped then.

Spike is right - the parts are very expensive and labour will be long and expensive too.

It might be worth trying to find a seat cover that is adjustable in this way. I know that there are ones that offer heating and vibration functions, maybe there is one that has lumbar support too.

Cheers,

Mike