Can't you swap over the underside of your Stilo seats onto the Alfa ones, which would then match the bolt holes in the bodyshell?
Styling Leather interior from another car (alfa?) in stilo
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Styling Leather interior from another car (alfa?) in stilo
Yeh I thought I might try that next. Well I'm going to have another go at the weekend as I ran out of time tonight. I'f that doesn't work im going to make adapter I think
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and quite a few people have said "they fit straight in"
what a ballache if they dont....i hope you can sort it
.... well good news. after a morning of me and my dad messing around with a few ideas we fitted them using some little adapter brackets. iv taken photos of most of the things we did so if anyone else is going to atempt this, i can give some guidance.
anyway, very happy with the result, they looking amazing, hold you in alot more than my standard seats did and still are very comfy. I will be atempting to try and fit the back bench tomorrow if i get time. ( got to fit a new bottom arm on it.)
only other thing is that i havent connected the airbags up yet. I had a look at the wiring on the two seats. they both have 3 wires going to the plug which are the same colours aswell, blue, black and brown on both seats, but the actual plug on the alfa seats are different. should i just connect the matching colours and take a chance?
i just dont want to connect them and then have the airbags go off in the seat because iv connected it up wrong
anyway, very happy with the result, they looking amazing, hold you in alot more than my standard seats did and still are very comfy. I will be atempting to try and fit the back bench tomorrow if i get time. ( got to fit a new bottom arm on it.)
only other thing is that i havent connected the airbags up yet. I had a look at the wiring on the two seats. they both have 3 wires going to the plug which are the same colours aswell, blue, black and brown on both seats, but the actual plug on the alfa seats are different. should i just connect the matching colours and take a chance?
i just dont want to connect them and then have the airbags go off in the seat because iv connected it up wrong
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:O good job, looking very smart.
they look fantastic mate , i was gonna do a similar thing but bailed out at the last minute because for some reason despite everyone saying they would go straight in, i had this niggling in the back of my mind that it would'nt be that simple?? but i'm glad to see you have engineered your way through it though. great job!
Yes the GT does use the 147 floorpan. I love those GT seats in the Alfatex material.
Cheers, yeh I think the GT has the same seats as some of the 147s. I couldn't fit the back ones in the end as the seats slipped on the other side to the stand ones and all the mounting brackets are in different places
The only seats that might have a prospect of going straight in are the Bravo seats. The Alfa 147 was not from the same family line as Stilo... Stilo was a new platform (albeit they heavily modified an existing one. It morphed into Bravo.. and Bravo begat Alfa Giulietta... so that one might be worth investigating too.
On the other hand, if you have front seats in a nice leathery.. can you get a vehicle trimmer to just match the front seats on the existing rear seats?
Ralf S.
On the other hand, if you have front seats in a nice leathery.. can you get a vehicle trimmer to just match the front seats on the existing rear seats?
Ralf S.
It looks like the front seats are do-able but the rears are not, from everything I've seen.
I know the rear seats split different, i.e. on the Stilo the 60% portion is on the passenger side and on the Alfa range the 60% is on the drivers side.
The Alfa 156, 147 and GT are all broadly related - the 156 saloons didn't have folding rear seats, only the sportwagon. The Brera platform (159, Brera, Spider) won't work for you either.
ideally what you want are a set of cloth / fabric front seats from an Alfa 147 GTA - the black fabric should be close enough on first glance to not look silly and they're really, really cool looking bucket comfy Italian seats. They hold you like a dream. Only problem is there wasn't many people out there daft enough to buy a GTA without leather, so they're rare as hen's teeth.
The compromise would be for a set of black Alfatex (that's Alfa's name for fabric) faux alcantara front seats from a GT. The fabric is different to the cross hatching on the stilo seats but if you've got black cloth it would not look completely ridiculous. This sort of thing for £50!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Breaking-...827041?hash=item3f688a32a1:g:JvwAAOSwuzRXfi6u
And of course if you did get the rears trimmed to match it's a fabric not leather so cheaper!
I know the rear seats split different, i.e. on the Stilo the 60% portion is on the passenger side and on the Alfa range the 60% is on the drivers side.
The Alfa 156, 147 and GT are all broadly related - the 156 saloons didn't have folding rear seats, only the sportwagon. The Brera platform (159, Brera, Spider) won't work for you either.
ideally what you want are a set of cloth / fabric front seats from an Alfa 147 GTA - the black fabric should be close enough on first glance to not look silly and they're really, really cool looking bucket comfy Italian seats. They hold you like a dream. Only problem is there wasn't many people out there daft enough to buy a GTA without leather, so they're rare as hen's teeth.
The compromise would be for a set of black Alfatex (that's Alfa's name for fabric) faux alcantara front seats from a GT. The fabric is different to the cross hatching on the stilo seats but if you've got black cloth it would not look completely ridiculous. This sort of thing for £50!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Breaking-...827041?hash=item3f688a32a1:g:JvwAAOSwuzRXfi6u
And of course if you did get the rears trimmed to match it's a fabric not leather so cheaper!
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I Will try to apply the alfa GT steats in my car but how do you lead with the airbag fault?
Will be interested to see how you get on. The Alfa seats should have an airbag fitted too - have you looked to see if the wiring will match up to just connect the Alfa seat?
Sinneduk
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The OP might got one. this post is very very old 6yrs ago...
So, front seats from Alfa GT can go in Stilo with a set of adaper brackets (with brackets any seat can fit by my understanding (thats how you fit an aftermarket sport seats)).
You could also buy Stilo leather factory rear seats and door panels to complete leather interior (you will have to match colors with Alfa seats and question is if seller is willing to sell separately).
And then when you do all this how do you sort wiring for airbags on GT seats? Does anyone know how Marshall147 (or anyone else with non Stilo front seats) sorted that? Did they just connect same wire colors?
You could also buy Stilo leather factory rear seats and door panels to complete leather interior (you will have to match colors with Alfa seats and question is if seller is willing to sell separately).
And then when you do all this how do you sort wiring for airbags on GT seats? Does anyone know how Marshall147 (or anyone else with non Stilo front seats) sorted that? Did they just connect same wire colors?
kuratage
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Maybe you can post some pictures of new alfa seats in your stilo.
I think many wanted to see them.
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