996 Bucket seats

[tvr trevor]

Hi all, anyone with any idea's on where to pick up a pair of black leather Porsche Buckets from. I can get them from Carnewal for about £1900 for a brand new pair. Just didn't want to pay that much!! I would consider good used ones.

Cheers

[david hype]

If you are looking for used, try Porsch-apart they seem to carry quite a few around £500ish each.

www.porsch-apart.co.uk

[tvr trevor]

Thanks for the info, they have a pair but the price they want (1600+vat) is a bit too close to the brand new price.

Cheers

[david hype]

Try and buy a worn or odd pair in a naff colour. Then there is a bloke in PP that offers recovering in leather from £395 (no VAT) seems as though he offers collection and delivery as well.

Don`t know his work, but someone on here might? If you
dont have this months PP, e-mail me offline for contact details.

Failling that there is always Southbound...

[toby tucker]

tvr trevor said:

anyone with any idea's on where to pick up a pair of black leather Porsche Buckets from. I can get them from Carnewal for about £1900 for a brand new pair. Just didn't want to pay that much!! I would consider good used ones.

There was black pair of genuine Porsche Recaros being auctioned on eBay last week - they were bid up to £1270 & didn't sell.It might be worth while you emailing the vendor to see if a deal can be done.
Check it out at [url] http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2455286631&category=10408[/url]

Toby


>> Edited by toby tucker on Monday 2nd February 20:33

[neon_fox]

1600 a pair is _way_ too expensive for S/H (yes, I know it's the going price) when you can get a lighter Recaro bucket (pole position) in cloth for 300-400. Unless you _really_ want leather, and then you can get a PP in leather for 750 direct from Recaro Direct, so you must be able to find cheaper deals elsewhere...

Fox
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964C2 (with normal seats, so far)

P.S. anyone thought about a seat rail mod so that you can fit buckets but have either a) extra long slides or b) some sort of tilt/hinge around the front of the seat so you can still get stuff in the back...

[tvr trevor]

Thanks for all the reply's, just a quick question, before i decided to locate a pair of buckets for my 2002 C2 996, i checked out a 2003 GT3 with the standard bucket seats and on the passenger side you could still get the kids in the back by just pushing the seat all the way forwards on it's runners. I take it it should be no different if i fit the seats in my car? I still need to get the kids in the back now and then.

Cheers

[toby tucker]

Trevor,
getting access to a rear seat passenger in the event of an accident/fire would not be so easy since the back rests on the Bucket seats don't pivot forward as they do with the standard sport seats. I had Recaro buckets fitted to my car & replaced them because my 2 year old daughter is an occasional rear seat passenger and I didnt feel comfortable with this risk ....that's why Porsche wont fit rear seats to cars with Buckets seat ordered new from the factory .

Toby




>> Edited by toby tucker on Tuesday 3rd February 15:08

>> Edited by toby tucker on Tuesday 3rd February 15:14