Technical Retrofitting leather seats?

[Lloyd71]

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Anyone retro fitted leather seats, thniking of Ivory leather to match the ambience.

 

[Lloyd71]

I've not retro fitted leather seats but I've certainly pulled my seats in and out for track work. It's very simple to replace a seat. 2 x connectors on the bottom, airbag and that annoying seat belt alarm then undo 4 bolts with an inset hex head and the seat lifts right out. The rear seat backs have 2 bolts at each side bolting to the side of the car. Undo them. Then hex head in the middle of the split fold, undo that. Life the seat backs out. Then undo the bolts that hold the bottom of the seat in, if you were sitting on the back seat your calf would touch them if you pressed your legs back. There's 2 or 3 down there. Unbolt them and the seat base lifts out. I have pics somewhere. I'll see if I can dig them out.

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[jnoiles]

You can see the mounting bolt holes and the 2 connectors in this shot of my passenger footwell (seat removed):

And the brackets that the back seat rest on. I've also removed the bracket they bolt to in this pic:

I haven't pulled the door cards off but I think someone wrote a sound deadening guide that might have outlined that. I can't imagine its terribly difficult.

 

[500 R us]

cheers fella the whole forum thing is new to me, etiquette and all that..

 

[pearce_jj]

Full removal/refitting is in the sound insulation guides (front & rear seats, and the door cards and quarter panels).