tuscan seats in a cerb?

[cupra20v.t]

Do tuscan seats fit straight into a cerb? ie bolt holes/patterns. anything i need to watch for?

[Far Eastender]

Later Cerbs have the Tuscan style seats, so I assume that the fittings must be the same?

[cupra20v.t]

I was thinking along the same lines but thought i better check.

just bought a pair for £300. not in the right colour leather though

[motorsportrescue]

Didn't buy em off a Squaddie from Tidworth did ya?

[Brummmie]

No They dont. The runners are shorter, so you have to drill new holes and glass over the old. Aha i here you say, i will just fit the Cerbera runners...not without taking the seat apart you wont! I hope he did not cut the bolts off when removing otherwise you are in for a load more fun.

[cupra20v.t]

bought them off a chap advertising on ebay. when he answered the phone i'm sure he said auto wash as in autowash repairs. anyway the last set of seats he had apparently.

i hope they didnt get the burning gear out and zip off the bolts.

[Brummmie]

cupra20v.t said:

bought them off a chap advertising on ebay. when he answered the phone i'm sure he said auto wash as in autowash repairs. anyway the last set of seats he had apparently.

i hope they didnt get the burning gear out and zip off the bolts.

Those are where mine came from, and he did!

[cupra20v.t]

is it a tasky job to weld new bolts to the runners then?

I have fitted ford escort recaors to a mk3 golf messing with different subframes and angles etc, so i dont mind a bit of fiddling but if they are going to be a royal pain then i may ring him and tell him to try and remove them with runner bolts intact

[Brummmie]

You cant get the bolts out without removing the runners, if he gas axed them off, you cant re use them, but you cant get ones long enough back in. I ended up rivnutting the runners and bolting from the bottom. The runner bolts that attach them to the seatbase are buried in the foam. They must build them bottom up when new.

Edited by Brummmie on Tuesday 30th December 18:42

[ro_butler]

cupra20v.t said:

I was thinking along the same lines but thought i better check.

just bought a pair for £300. not in the right colour leather though

Are you going to replace the rear seats as well? It might look a bit odd with just the fronts done.

[cupra20v.t]

what rear seats do the later cerbs have then? i thought they had standard cerb rear seats with tuscan fronts.

[Brummmie]

They are a different style, an in built headrest like the fronts, most people wont notice, i didnt till i saw another!

[cupra20v.t]

Ive just looked up a picture and i see what you mean. they curve around the seat and drop down slightly.

Can i put the head rests onto my existing back seats or dont they fit?

[Torque07]

cupra20v.t said:

Ive just looked up a picture and i see what you mean. they curve around the seat and drop down slightly.

Can i put the head rests onto my existing back seats or dont they fit?

No I don't think so. From memory when dad and I converted the interior in his cerb we needed new back seats as the original ones that were in the car were made up of 3 sections the base, back and head rest which are all held together with fibreglass, whereas the later style ones come in padded sections with the base, then side supports, the small rounded pad which sits at the bottom of the back section and then the back section itself. Once these have been changed then you can fit the half moon shaped headrests. The moon shaped headrests needs to be screwed to the fibreglass which runs down behind the side supports, as unlike the old seats there is no part for the head rest to connect onto. Also I think the helmet holder in the centre needs to be replaced as its a slightly different shape.

I have some pics of the process on my computer I could post so you could see what is involved.

HTH

Aaron

Edited by Torque07 on Sunday 4th January 21:24

[cupra20v.t]

yeah post them here fella. so i can see the steps involved. Thanks

[Torque07]

Here you go, I only have a few pics but I'll try and explain it as best possible

Here's the original seats in place



These come out pretty straightforward with 2 bolts holding the base in place and 3 holding the back section as you can see from the pic below with the seating out



Once the seats are out, the fun starts fitting the new ones. The base is a straight swap but as the back is in 2 sections this time you firstly need to line up the bottom and top pad the top pad just sticks on and once the glue has hardened you then need to drill in new holes for the bottom pad to go on. After these steps the rear seat should look something like this:



At this point we are now ready to put the half moon headrest in place however to do this another 2 holes at each side of the side supports need to be drilled as this section is also screwed in.

Once the process is complete it should end up looking like this:



I also checked the helmet holder and it is slightly different for the later seating as you should see from the first and last pic.

Hope this helps a bit. Let us know how you get on if you decided to change them

Cheers

Aaron