My 6LE seat review of ownership
10-31-2011, 01:55 PM
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My 6LE seat review of ownership Decided to rotate my black leather seats today. I've had them in my car for approximately 2 years. So far they have held up nicely. A very minor rub marks on the driver side and the back part by the harness holes came loose(easy 1 min spray adhesive and tuck back in) The cushions are stil firm. Only thing I dont like is the underside of the foam. it sheds small pieces of foam dust. So on a scale of 1-10 I rate them a 9 so far. Since i rotated them the formerly passenger seat is now my drivers- its a bit firmer since its never sat in much. Gave a nice leather treatment and they look brand new.
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Love my racing seats... they are the one's in Mark's writeup about the seat brackets on his site. Just from a different company.I ended up getting both seats, leather with black suede inserts, for around $300 shipped. And they have held up great! One of the best improvements I have made to the car so far. They are way more comfortable, and with the extra side bolster support and racing harnesses it makes driving way more fun 
I just wish they made direct bolt-in brackets for aftermarket seats that didn't cost as much as the damn seats! lol...
I just wish they made direct bolt-in brackets for aftermarket seats that didn't cost as much as the damn seats! lol...
11-01-2011, 12:35 PM
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I have cloth seats and they were easy to disassemble. Leather is probably similar.
The backs are different due to the placement of the flip mechanism.
The bottom of the driver and passenger seat are identical. The only change is to move a threaded clip from one side of the bottom seat frame to the other. In fact, my driver's bottom is actually the passenger one. The driver seat bottom frame on mine cracked so a friend of my fathers welded it back up, but in the mean time, I swapped seat bottoms so I could drive the car. When it came back, I used it to reassemble the passenger seat.
Since you're there, you'll notice that the central support for the cushion is a bunch of thin wires that cut into the cushion causing the seat bottom to sink over time. I made a flexible sheet to cover those wires to keep them from cutting into the foam. I had some metal screen material and aluminum foil tape so I combined it. I wrapped the screen material around the wires to make a flat surface then wrapped that with the foil tape. That created a flat smooth flexible metallic surface for the foam to sit on instead of the wires. Sorry, I didn't take pictures.
Some screws holding plastic covers over the track.
4 bolts hold the seat in the car.
Some screws holding plastic covers over the seat tilt mechanism
3+ bolts hold the seat back to the seat bottom.
4 bolts hold the track to the seat
Once you have the seat disassembled, you can pull the cover off the seat bottom. Its held in with two long plastic clips (around 8" long). One clip running along the front and one running along the back. They hold the cover on the frame. Get one clip off and the other comes off easy. After that, the frame can be pulled out of the cover and foam combination. The cover can also be removed from the foam by just pealing/pulling it off.
The backs are different due to the placement of the flip mechanism.
The bottom of the driver and passenger seat are identical. The only change is to move a threaded clip from one side of the bottom seat frame to the other. In fact, my driver's bottom is actually the passenger one. The driver seat bottom frame on mine cracked so a friend of my fathers welded it back up, but in the mean time, I swapped seat bottoms so I could drive the car. When it came back, I used it to reassemble the passenger seat.
Since you're there, you'll notice that the central support for the cushion is a bunch of thin wires that cut into the cushion causing the seat bottom to sink over time. I made a flexible sheet to cover those wires to keep them from cutting into the foam. I had some metal screen material and aluminum foil tape so I combined it. I wrapped the screen material around the wires to make a flat surface then wrapped that with the foil tape. That created a flat smooth flexible metallic surface for the foam to sit on instead of the wires. Sorry, I didn't take pictures.
Some screws holding plastic covers over the track.
4 bolts hold the seat in the car.
Some screws holding plastic covers over the seat tilt mechanism
3+ bolts hold the seat back to the seat bottom.
4 bolts hold the track to the seat
Once you have the seat disassembled, you can pull the cover off the seat bottom. Its held in with two long plastic clips (around 8" long). One clip running along the front and one running along the back. They hold the cover on the frame. Get one clip off and the other comes off easy. After that, the frame can be pulled out of the cover and foam combination. The cover can also be removed from the foam by just pealing/pulling it off.
11-01-2011, 04:00 PM
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The inner twist **** is almost against the center console. You have a little wiggle room when mounting to the brackets. The outer one is easy to adjust. Pictures are muey grande
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...8/100_0632.jpg
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...8/100_0634.jpg
Front bracket:
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...8/100_0635.jpg
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...8/100_0632.jpg
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...8/100_0634.jpg
Front bracket:
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...8/100_0635.jpg
