Fitting bucket seats?

[kineticz]

Hey,
Been offered a pair of Corbeau Carrera bucket seats for a good price, however they don't come with subframes and I can't find any Leon specific ones. I've been told they MIGHT fit directly onto the standard subframes? Also there is the option of universal subframes but no idea how easy/hard they will be to fit.


Suggestions please
Dan

 

[adam cupra 20vt]

Golf mk4 subframes mate

You will need to plug something in to stop the airbag light on the dash.

 

[kineticz]

Best place to get the subframes? What sorta cost mate?

Plug something in hmmm good point, but what I wonder

 

[adam cupra 20vt]

Ummm Demon Tweeks? anywhere like that....... £50 each I paid for my 106 ones af ew years ago.

I'm not sure about the plugs but I emember reading on here you could get little gizmos that plug in and stop the light coming on.

 

[kineticz]

Actually, if I got golf mk4 subframes wouldn't they be the same as my OEM Leon subframes? Or can you not use the OEM frames on new seats?

 

[adam cupra 20vt]

Yes they would.....I mean get Corbeau frames for a mk4 golf

 

[kineticz]

Subframes are £80 EACH...

I've been offered the seats for £120, so that's like £280 total. The subframes are more than the seats LOL Doubtful I will find second hand Corbeau frames. The seats do come with universal, wonder how they would fit.

Apparently a good welder (such as my grandad) would be able to weld the uni subframe to fit. Hmm

 

[kineticz]

Done some research and found that people who fit bucket seats either fit some kind of resistor to fool the airbag system, or they somehow retrofit the belt pretensioners onto the new seat.

Has anyone here fitted bucket seats into their Seat? I'm sure someone must have or know what to do

Helpppppppp meeeeeeeeeee pleeeeeeeease I'm this close to securing the seat purchase

 

[james walker]

post pics up of the seats matey?

do they recline, guessing not if buckets.

still 280 total is a good price mate. as said, resistor for the airbag, the light will probably come on on the dash when you take the old ones out... vagcom needed to reset.


http://www.toys4cars.co.uk/index.ph...=55453&zenid=3c6db6f893cf622ab1afe8c01346ad95

if its these then do it mate... look nice

 

[kineticz]

Yes mate those, they do recline also, actual pic of seats here:




Found out if I know a good welder (my grandad), he can weld the old subframes onto the new seats

Also found out this method on fooling the side airbags system,

"in the airbag connector for the passenger side there will be three wires.

colours will be

pin 3/3 brown

pin 2 blue

pin 1 white

basically you need to solder a 4.7 ohm resistor from the blue wire to the white wire.

I would use the other side of connector (seat side) to do this, so the car wiring is intact."

Easy enough.

 

[adam cupra 20vt]

Sounds like a plan, you going for it?

The wires on the drivers side are different colour to passengers side but guess thats easy to work out

 

[kineticz]

Yeah I've put a deposit down on the seats to secure them for when I next get paid

 

[LEE69]

Brown is earth so the resistor will go onto the other two wires on the drivers seat.

Nice seats mate.

 

[kineticz]

Nice one, just hope my good fellow gramps can sort out the subframes to get a nice secure fit and smooth reclining