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Styling Fitting Alfa 147 seats

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Hi all,

I've just ordered myself some Alfa Romeo 147 leather front seats. I'm so excited to get them in! I didn't bothered with the rear seats just yet because they need custom brackets.

I've heard loads of times from loads of sources that the seats are just a straight swap. But is it quite as easy as that? Do you just unbolt the old seats and bolt on the new seats with the old bolts?

Any help would be great.

Rhys
 
RhysSmoove said:
Hi all,

I've just ordered myself some Alfa Romeo 147 leather front seats. I'm so excited to get them in! I didn't bothered with the rear seats just yet because they need custom brackets.

I've heard loads of times from loads of sources that the seats are just a straight swap. But is it quite as easy as that? Do you just unbolt the old seats and bolt on the new seats with the old bolts?

Any help would be great.

Rhys
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Believed so :)

Make sure you dont have airbag in your seats - if you do
You've got problems vs alfa that probably dont


Zziggy
 
RhysSmoove said:
There aren't any wires under my seats as far as I can see. I've checked a fair few times because of those pesky airbag lights on my dashboard.

Rhys
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tend to find that some sportings and higer models like the HGT and some is it ELX's? got the airbag seats

most (probably say around 90% of punto) that WONT have them :)

Punto airbag lights are mostly the exclusion switch fault

Ziggy
 
RhysSmoove said:
Hi all,

I've just ordered myself some Alfa Romeo 147 leather front seats. I'm so excited to get them in! I didn't bothered with the rear seats just yet because they need custom brackets.

I've heard loads of times from loads of sources that the seats are just a straight swap. But is it quite as easy as that? Do you just unbolt the old seats and bolt on the new seats with the old bolts?

Any help would be great.

Rhys
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Yep the front seats are a straight swap Rhys. Remove the 4 caphead screws securing the seats to the car floor (you may need to slide the seat forwards and backwards to gain better access to them) and carefully lift the seat out. They are heavier than what you initially think!

Then it's the inverse to fit the Alfa ones re-using the Fiat capheads :-D
You might find it helpful to remove the headrests and tilt the seats forwards beforehand

You have a 1.2 8v right? So no airbags to think about

What colour have you bought? :)

Wrightyy
 
wrightyy said:
Yep the front seats are a straight swap Rhys. Remove the 4 caphead screws securing the seats to the car floor (you may need to slide the seat forwards and backwards to gain better access to them) and carefully lift the seat out. They are heavier than what you initially think!

Then it's the inverse to fit the Alfa ones re-using the Fiat capheads :-D
You might find it helpful to remove the headrests and tilt the seats forwards beforehand

You have a 1.2 8v right? So no airbags to think about

What colour have you bought? :)

Wrightyy
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Cheers for the advice ? I like having a step by step run through of how to do something.

Mines a 1.2 8v yeah.

Got dark blue ones in near enough perfect condition. I was going to get some black ones but they were kind of rough. I'd prefer to pay a little more for some decent ones, than buy a set just because they are black. Plus I reckon blue will go pretty well with a blue car ?. They're not a bright blue, they're near enough black with a blue tinge.

So looking forward to putting them in!
 
RhysSmoove said:
Cheers for the advice ? I like having a step by step run through of how to do something.

Mines a 1.2 8v yeah.

Got dark blue ones in near enough perfect condition. I was going to get some black ones but they were kind of rough. I'd prefer to pay a little more for some decent ones, than buy a set just because they are black. Plus I reckon blue will go pretty well with a blue car ?. They're not a bright blue, they're near enough black with a blue tinge.

So looking forward to putting them in!
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No problem, let me know if you want to know anything else ?

Yeah I know the ones you mean, they'll look good!
 
How to tell if you have airbags in the seats

1. Open door
2. Look at the side of the seat to see if there is a huge plastic cover with "airbag" written on it

If the answer to the above is yes then you do have airbags in the seat if not then there are no airbags

Seriously though it's pretty obvious if you do have seat airbags
 
Ziggy122 said:
tend to find that some sportings and higer models like the HGT and some is it ELX's? got the airbag seats

most (probably say around 90% of punto) that WONT have them :)

Punto airbag lights are mostly the exclusion switch fault

Ziggy
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You're thinking of the Eleganza mate. My dad used to have a W-plate ELX, and that had just a drivers' airbag, no passenger or seat airbags.
 
Sorry to hijack the thread but Wrightyy or anyone can I pick your brains I have a set of back seats from a 147 for my punto but to be the base seems far to big . Do I bolt them in using the alfa fittings and push the seats down or what ? it seems to me that the wheel arches are in the way
 
tlo
I can't remember exactly how I fitted the lower part of the rear seats (it was a few years ago now)
From what I remember they pretty much the right size for where they needed to be placed... Width and depth wise anyway
 
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Thanks mate for any help, I have been doing some googling and from what I can see the base sits a little further forward than the the way I first tried mine otherwise they would not fit round the wheel arches but like I say thank you for your help . If you remember anything else let me know:worship:
 
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