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Ok....after doing nearly 1000 miles in Charlie this last week, I have realised that the standard 'S' seats are crap. I'm still suffering with backache.

What other seats are a straight swap? Preferably ones with a bit more back support. Are the Sporting seats any different?

Ta :)
 
Here we go!

Liam
 

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CInquecento Sporting seats fit straight in bolt for bolt, as do the seicento sporting (mk1 or mk2) front seats. To get the back seats in you need to get the little bits that let you out the seats down aswell (metal type brackets). Or you can fabricate some new ones quite easily.

Personally i'm a fan off the Seicento Sporting Abarth Mk2 Facelift seats (same as the standard seats, with Abarth logo's), i think they're very comfortable and look excellent.

Cheers
 
In the pics above, the seats don't look any different to Charlie's apart from
the colours are different. I'm still suffering from backache.

Looks like I'll have to hunt the scrappies for something. What about Uno
seats of something similar ?
 
speak to arse of box, he had a s or sx (cant remember which) and said the sporting seats were alot better, but like i said im not sure not having been in a s/sx so best bets to speak to someone who's had experience of both :)
 
Cough cough...Ghost mate, Ive never had standard seats in the Sporting!!

The Standard Sporting seats have much more side support than the S and SX seats do, they are definately more reassuring, the S\SX can get a little scary blasting around back roads cos I found I moved around quite a bit.

Ive never actually driven a Sporting with standard seats mind, but in my experience of driving the SX and being passengered in the Sporting, Id say do the Sporting seat swap :D Buckets really get very painful after an hour and a half or so of motorway driving, so thats a no go!!
 
well ive got a cinq sx which has the same seats as an s does so i swapped them for front and rear seats from and s reg seicento sporting not only do they look loads nicer, are more supportive when nailing it round corners but are more comfortable on long journeys.

i will add though i was still not totally satisfied so have now replaced the front seats with cobra clubman bucket seats and sparco racing harnesses which in my oppinion are worth the money as you do not move at all when nailing it round corners and surpriseingly are one of the most comfortable seats ive sat in.
 
arseofbox said:
Buckets really get very painful after an hour and a half or so of motorway driving, so thats a no go!!
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m8 u have the wrong bucket seats in then! mine are proper comfy mile after mile after mile.... went to bournemouth in the old abarth with the corbeaus in, close on 2 hours, back felt great! well happy with them again now they are in the blue one. (y)

only slight problem i have with them is that they are a couple of inches higher due to the type of subframe! but hey, money well spent.
 
Yup, saying bucket seats are uncomfortable is like saying all coppers are bastards (Hmm, maybe not such a analergy) :devil:

For road use, steel framed bucket seats would be better as you are not in direct contact with the base. But there are plenty of shell type Bucket seats with lots of padding which are nice to use day to day as well.

Corbeau's GTS Seat is very good as a sports seat, with good lateral support, and it is a recliner, so you dont lose the back seats.
 
Mase, I assume yu had a recliner?

Im running fixed backs! and they hurt after a bit unless yure really giving it some clutch and brake abuse!!
 
minislapper said:
In the pics above, the seats don't look any different to Charlie's apart from
the colours are different. I'm still suffering from backache.

Looks like I'll have to hunt the scrappies for something. What about Uno
seats of something similar ?
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Yeah that picture could be slightly mis-leading.

The seats I have in my MK2 Sei are like this

http://www.aquamoo.co.uk/Car Images/Seats.JPG

Can't really complain about them. Only problem is me opening Lucozade inside my car and erm...............well sparying all over the inside of the car ........TWICE, both outside the same ASDA, the second time I was just in the process of explaining what happened the last time I tried opening a bottle of Lucozade in the car. Lets just say my use of vocabulary was mainly the use of explicit words :D
 
Ahhh now they look slightly better. Not particularly bothered about being
'held in' cos I drive Charlie nicely !!! :p There's not much support in them
though, and me being an old fart......... !!!!

Better look out for a dead one in the scrappies then !!!! Ta :)
 
By rights if u alter the car from its original spec (which means putting different seats in, whether there standard to another vehicle or not) you have to inform your insurance company. I'm pretty sure thats right anyway, my mate did it with his fiesta when he put sportier seats from an XR2 in it, and when he crashed he had to pay double his excess or have no insurance at all as he'd unknowingly breached the terms of his insurance, and as the police were involved he didn't want to have no insurance funnily enough lol.
 
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