I spent a useful afternoon in the garage today changing over the Recaro seats in my Trophy. Its done a few miles now and although the drivers seat is still very good, I thought I would even up the wear by swapping the seats over. hopefully this will extend their life somewhat as the drivers seat always wears more than the passenger!
Its a simple enough job, if a little time consuming and fiddly but essentially the seats are held in by 4 x 6mm Allen bolts (tight!) but with a 1/4 ratchet and a 6mm hex Allen tool they came out quickly.
Under the seats are a few electrical connections that need to be disconnected, but these are easy to change over as there are no actual connections to the seats themselves.
The hard bit was swapping over the cable that operates the tilt mechanism from one side to the other, (the cable can be attached to either side of the seat, the seats themselves are not handed!) but once I had done the one, the other side was easy.
If anyone decides this is a good idea and wants to do it, I did take a few pictures that I could post up.
Its a simple enough job, if a little time consuming and fiddly but essentially the seats are held in by 4 x 6mm Allen bolts (tight!) but with a 1/4 ratchet and a 6mm hex Allen tool they came out quickly.
Under the seats are a few electrical connections that need to be disconnected, but these are easy to change over as there are no actual connections to the seats themselves.
The hard bit was swapping over the cable that operates the tilt mechanism from one side to the other, (the cable can be attached to either side of the seat, the seats themselves are not handed!) but once I had done the one, the other side was easy.
If anyone decides this is a good idea and wants to do it, I did take a few pictures that I could post up.