Pie-eyedpiper
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Finally got my new black Sports interior fitted. Only downside is I don't have the wiring loom for electric lumber adjustment, as my old seats were bog standard SE seats.
The seats came courtesy of @Brennybear, thanks Brendan. The drivers bolster was cracked and collapsed so I cut the broken part off with an electric carving knife and cut a bolster off one of my old seats and stuck it in place. I then swapped both seat bases over. Being Sports seats they aren't identical, having a slight cut out for the centre console. But they don't really touch anyway.
The hardest part is, as mentioned in other threads, is removing the 2 rear pivot bolts from the seat bases. 3 of 4 came out fine, and the 2 from my old seats also. But, 1 was clearly held in too tightly with Locktite. Enter a world of grief.
They aren't nuts, just threaded brass tubes embedded in plastic and it turned inside the plastic. There is no alternative but to attack the plastic and destroy the seat base. Because of the seat mechanism a Dremel won't fit it. So wood drill bits were used to remove most of the plastic, then a wood chisel, just so a pair of Mole grips could be employed. Eventually, what seemed like hours later, it came loose.
But anyway, it was worth the effort as the interior has been transformed.
From this- ....
To this-
The repaired bolster on the drivers seat base, now on the passenger side.
The seats came courtesy of @Brennybear, thanks Brendan. The drivers bolster was cracked and collapsed so I cut the broken part off with an electric carving knife and cut a bolster off one of my old seats and stuck it in place. I then swapped both seat bases over. Being Sports seats they aren't identical, having a slight cut out for the centre console. But they don't really touch anyway.
The hardest part is, as mentioned in other threads, is removing the 2 rear pivot bolts from the seat bases. 3 of 4 came out fine, and the 2 from my old seats also. But, 1 was clearly held in too tightly with Locktite. Enter a world of grief.
They aren't nuts, just threaded brass tubes embedded in plastic and it turned inside the plastic. There is no alternative but to attack the plastic and destroy the seat base. Because of the seat mechanism a Dremel won't fit it. So wood drill bits were used to remove most of the plastic, then a wood chisel, just so a pair of Mole grips could be employed. Eventually, what seemed like hours later, it came loose.
But anyway, it was worth the effort as the interior has been transformed.
From this- ....
To this-
The repaired bolster on the drivers seat base, now on the passenger side.
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