battybat wrote:just weld the seat frames onto the original beetle runners, not too hard to do
it all depends on your wielding skills mate its hard to get the qualifications to wield and get approved by an engineer
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i found wqith the scoobi seats that when you take the original rails off, the 4 bolt holes can easily be matched to the base of a kombi seat, so i have just bolted the base to the seat as if it were rails, am hoping that will be fine legally as it involves no real modification.
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thats in the grey area mate i think because you could argue each way ie that its not stock but uses the stock mounting points. that ones beyond me id be calling the vic roads tech boys.
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here is what im leaning toward, had a chat to the owner and he says they are skyline but my old man who worked for nissan before he started his own shop doesnt think so though it could be
or maybe these
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ok went to the AAAA trade show and was very impressed by the procar and autotechika seats might try some of them
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was going to go the autotechnica sp6 but instead found a set of s13 silva seats yesterday on my magical mystery tour. will try to fit them this weekend after i talk to the upholster about colours
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here they are before the upholster
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noice...do u have to mod to put them in?
dubless. 🥲
🥷 And who the helled parked the Mitsubishi "Prancer" under my house??? 🥷
yes i will ill take some pics when i do. it took me a while to find a set that wasnt to wide
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sorry to jump in too late, looks like you bought them already
mine are from a 968 (not as ex$y as a 911 pair) and they are wider but not too wide for my car.
pics in my members rides.
i got them for about $200, but they were FUBAR.
trimmer has worked miracles ($$) to get them looking like they do
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its alright mate there are others that are following this thread for seats for there own cars. so it will be useful for them
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I have used
Recaro SE seats which VWCOOL now has
Toyota levin seats, which VWCOOL now has. 😀
Honda CRX seats.
Cobra Clubmans.
All these fitted well without any fowling on doors or handbrakes.
And as BEB pointed out, toyota crown seats. (Not recomended) though
Also a mate has a nice pair of celica seats from a GT4 which are electric and they fit nicely in his bug
Jasmine the 75 L Bug
56 oval, 2000 New Beetle
ford laser TX5 seats for me, fit just nicely, pulled mine from a baja so had adaptors already, easy fit, comfy as, 400x better than stockers nicer looking, much comfier more supportive and fit my largeish frame comfortably in them, dont hit handbrake or anything, touch the heater cable levers when upright tho, not really an issue and are about 3cm from the door trim
Cobra Suzuka, jsut fit in........
I have no sympathy for my car, only the wallet that pays for it!
Go hard or go home!!!!
Holden Gemini coupe seats are small and have a fold-forward lever for rear seat access.
My donor bug has Toyota Corolla coupe (early 80's model?) seats extremely booty fabbed onto the VW sliders. The sliders/adapter is well made, but appears only brazed together, and using washers for spacers is a no-no.
And because of that, not going into the wife's dub!
Nice seats, smaller than subi seats I've seen in bugs, crap colours though.
I can post pics (even disassemble shots) or measurements if anyone wants....
I'm going to check out Mitsubishi Lancer seats personally.
Ctefeh
I used to own a s13 Silvia, was such a nice car and the seats were indeed awesome.
If my Bug's seats weren't in as good condition as they are, I'd put Silvia ones in for sure! Imagine leather ones..... mmmm..... :P
Pic of the seats after the shagpile covers were taken off and cleaned.
Measurements are :
Max width of the seat bottom = 510 mm
Max width of seat upper = 530mm
width at top of seat upper = 405mm
height of seat upper = 570mm
Total height from bottom of rails = 780mm
Next is the bottom with the rails.
The mount bolt spacing is 300mm front to back, 380mm wide.
The rails are 400mm outside edge to outside edge.
One side requires 5/8 " spacers between seat and rail.
The rail itself has a slope with the rear being 75mm from base to inner pipe, front being 55mm.
The "pipe" measures at 20mm diameter.
I tried to shrink the photos as small as possible.....
Ctefeh
