Putting leather seats in ones car from another manufacturer

[DannyVTS]

Now, bare with me.

Say I wanted to put some leather seats in my car, most likely from a MG ZR or Rover 200. Would I have to take the runners off my current seats and try and attach them to the base of the other seats ?

Anyone got any experience of doing this?

Danny

[ewenm]

Or take the runner base out of the car and drill holes to fit the new base from the donor car.

[Dracoro]

DannyVTS said:

Now, bare with me.

I'd rather not, if it's all the same to you....

DannyVTS said:

Say I wanted to put some leather seats in my car, most likely from a MG ZR or Rover 200. Would I have to take the runners off my current seats and try and attach them to the base of the other seats ?

Probably, it will depend on the design of the seat runners of the donor car. I would try and source leather from the same car (I assume some Saxo's had leather?

I doubt Saxo seats are particularly complicated, do they have pre-tensioners/airbag connectors? If so, seats from another Saxo with the same connectors may be the best way to go.

Edited by Dracoro on Thursday 24th February 13:29

[HellDiver]

Problem with this is most cars have the seatbelt, airbag and pretensioners built in to the seat itself. Replacing the seat isn't really an option without messing with vital safety systems.

You could always get the existing seats retrimmed in leather.

[DannyVTS]

My current seats really hurt my back to be honest chaps

I can get some nice corbeau gt seats in for about £300 but for comfort I absolutely love the seats in mu mates ZR, and they are very cheap.

[DannyVTS]

Dracoro said:

Probably, it will depend on the design of the seat runners of the donor car. What car are they coming from?

A rover 200 chassis.. Did you read the first post ?

[DannyVTS]

The Saxo seats have pre tensioners yes but no air bags.

Would the pre tensioner and seatbelt assembly not be attached to the standard sub frame ? Going by a coupe on eBay they are anyway

[Dracoro]

DannyVTS said:

Dracoro said:

Probably, it will depend on the design of the seat runners of the donor car. What car are they coming from?

A rover 200 chassis.. Did you read the first post ?

Bear* with me, I skim read I originally thought the MG was the car you had hence my edit....

[DannyVTS]

Odd that

I originally typed bear and thought nah that can't be right and I remember someone putting bear hands yesterday and someone correction them ha

[SteveS Cup]

106 GTI seats are lovely imo.

Or get some Recaro's, any tbh, contact Recaro and buy new subframes.

[LuS1fer]

DannyVTS said:

Odd that

I originally typed bear and thought nah that can't be right and I remember someone putting bear hands yesterday and someone correction them ha

Bear hands?
Paw show!

[geeteeaye]

Earlier this week you were chopping in the, quote 'stroen' for an astra/leon/bora/saab/lexus/mg (add in countless other cars) and now you're going to shell out hundreds for new seats. The fickleness of youth eh!

[DannyVTS]

SteveS Cup said:

106 GTI seats are lovely imo.

Or get some Recaro's, any tbh, contact Recaro and buy new subframes.

They are the most common upgrade yes, are they really that nice ?

[petrolsniffer]

I've seen mg zr seats in a 205 that was for sale months ago no idea how it was done though.

[SteveS Cup]

DannyVTS said:

They are the most common upgrade yes, are they really that nice ?

A lot better than Saxo yes. I didn't have any issues with my 106 seats.

Without looking at the Saxo assembly it's hard to say if it's easy to transfer stuff to other seats and if you don't want to mess with serious safety devices then it'll be trickier.

I've know people put all sorts of seats into cars and just use resistors on airbag sensors etc just so they don't get an airbag light on the dash.

I've done this so I can have a Momo steering wheel in my Clio.

But anyway, swapping seats from any car is possible, look at some of the older VAG's running porker / lambo seats.

[DannyVTS]

May as well get a set of them then! They look okay too tbh