Recaro cs's

[George10]

I've found someone with a set of these, they're out of a corsa vxr
Has anyone fitted them before? If so, what work was needed?

Thanks

[JoeDarKa]

Custom subframes probably and some coding to get rid of errors

[xjay1337]

Again a post I made seems to have not applied.


Corsa VXR seats are not Recaro CSs.
They are very different. They are similar to Recaro CSs but if you have a Corsa seat and an actual Recaro CS seat side by side the difference is obvious.

Recaro sell runners for all kinds of fitments. You could buy the Mk5 runners and bolt them to the Recaros from the Corsa.
They are around £175 a seat.

To code out the airbag you cannot disable without changing your airbag ECU for one that is not supposed to have side airbags (basically a factory bought GTI/R32 with the RS4 buckets in them).
So you need to use a resistor on the airbag plug.
It's a 2.2ohm resistor you need.

[George10]

Oh really? I thought they looked different when he said, but there's not an awful lot of difference.
I'll have to look in to it as I cba to buy them if there be a hassle to fit!

I just wanna do someone a bit different than gti interior!

[xjay1337]

It's not really a lot of hassle.

[George10]

I suppose not. Maybe I could weld my rails/subframes on them off my standard seats?

[xjay1337]

You could,but Recaro make bolt on subframes for the Mk5 you can buy...?


"
Recaro sell runners for all kinds of fitments. You could buy the Mk5 runners and bolt them to the Recaros from the Corsa.
They are around £175 a seat.

"

[George10]

I know you wrote that, but if they fit the same way its saves me £175 

[xjay1337]

So it's not hassle you're concerned about, but cost? 

[George10]

Ha ha nah it's not that, I have money but if I've got something that does the same job I may as well use it
Called smart thinking 

[xjay1337]

That's true. 

I'm just thinking about adjustability of the seat and whether welding runners would be effected, if they're not perfectly straight and in the exact location you're going to have problems.. and the future worth of the seats.

Save £300 now but cost that in the future by welding hunks of metal to them!.. 

Up to you buddy. I would recommend custom if you are trying to fit say Mk5 seats to a Mk4 but when there are factory runners available I would just buy them

[George10]

If the recaro ones work better then I'll buy them, but if I could've got away with the standard runners i would've

These seats will also be going in my next car, so would the runners for the mk5 be the same as an s3?

[xjay1337]

I had 3 door A3 seats in my old Golf, which fitted fine, so I would presume so 

[George10]

Brilliant, thanks for your help again mate 

[rb19]

How did you get on fitting these seats? I've just bought some for my mk6 and I dont fancy buying the frames from Recaro as they are about £400!

Cheers