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replace front seats help please

Postby beachflyer » Sun Dec 23, 2018 6:00 pm

Hi Guys, I need your help, someone wrote it was easy to replace the front drivers seat in a mk7 with mr2 seats , well its not easy ! i'm struggling with this ,do i need to buy universal sliders or do i still need to drill new holes in the sliders and cut out bolts ect
GUY'S I could do with your help,if anyone has fitted these i could really use your help
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Re: replace front seats help please

Postby dumper » Sun Dec 23, 2018 6:50 pm

If the rails are the right width I’d redrill the rails or the seatbox or you cud get some two incs x five sixteenths flat bar to go across the seatbox and drill them to pickup the holes on the seat and the seatbox if the seat rails are narrower then the seatbox
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1986 mk3 2.5 di swb
1990 190 lwb 2.5 di
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Re: replace front seats help please

Postby beachflyer » Sun Dec 23, 2018 7:13 pm

Thanks Dumper, i will get out early tomorrow morning and see if i can get some 2" x 5 /16th, if this works i buy you a pint thanks
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Re: replace front seats help please

Postby dumper » Sun Dec 23, 2018 9:17 pm

You can tell I’m old whe you get imperial measurements :D
2025 MK 8 L3 H3 Motorsport campervan
Past camper vans
1974 mk1 v4 with 2.0 pinto fitted
1986 mk3 2.5 di swb
1990 190 lwb 2.5 di
1998 100 lwb 2.5 di
2006 350 jumbo 135 tdci
2015 MK 8 L4 H3 motorsport campervan
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Re: replace front seats help please

Postby beachflyer » Sun Dec 23, 2018 11:40 pm

Ye can tell your old when you know excatly what your talking about :lol:
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