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Oct 24th, 2020, 16:30 | #1 |
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Changing seats
The front seats are looking a bit tired I would like to put some in front a later model I'm a technician so competent swapping bases or making and welding new ones my car has manual seats has anyone else done this? What will fit ? Are belt buckles the same or would need to be swapped thanks in advance
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Oct 24th, 2020, 18:46 | #2 |
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Hi Andrew
What year and model car do you have? Probably the difficult thing would be dealing with the airbag and the SRS system. HTH Steve
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Oct 25th, 2020, 10:04 | #3 |
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As Steve says, the year of manufacture of your car is important as the early 'phase 1' cars (upto '98) had a mechanical side impact sensor mounted on the seat frame, whereas the later cars had an electronic trigger.
This is an early example - The sensor is basically a big red panic switch that gets hit by the door in the event of a side impact. I'm not exactly sure how the later types work, but I *think* its like a G sensor that measures sideways acceleration. As all the original seats will have integral airbags, I think you may have an issue getting later seats to work with the originally fitted SRS system - unless you fool the system to disable the entire side impact detection system - which I would strongly advise against lol.
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Oct 25th, 2020, 18:04 | #4 |
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It's a 98 -99 V70R
I'm not overly concerned with SRS I'll get round that relatively easy I'm more concerned about what will fit
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