Seat upgrades...

[evanescent03]

I searched the forum and haven't found anything except "seat covers."

Anyone find solutions yet? I've never had aftermarket seats installed on a car before. The seat brackets seem like a big deal and are maybe car/seat specific and set your seat height? Also we will probably lose some functionality (heating, electronic adjustments, etc). i'm interested in throwing in some seats because i think the aggressive bolstering in some seats really help make the experience.

if i find anything, i'll share it here.

matt

 

[sfedai0]

I mean, if you dont care about the heated and lumbar, then get some Recaros or Bride.

 

[Integra23]

You will most likely loose all features. Here is a video of Axion doing the mod

 

[Rdrcr]

I mean, if you dont care about the heated and lumbar, then get some Recaros or Bride.

I’ve had Bride seats in 4 of my vehicles. Really really like Bride seats. Super comfortable and come in a variety of sizes for different body types. They’re not great for a DD though, lol

Mike

 

[evanescent03]

I mean, if you dont care about the heated and lumbar, then get some Recaros or Bride.

yeah I don’t think I would miss that … I do want to retain airbag functionality and I wouldn’t do a fixed bucket. I wish I could use the adjustable carbon buckets from my m3. They’re the best seats I’ve had.

I’d be interested to hear from someone who has gone through this to see what they say about the air bags.

seems like there are little details about seats that require tweaking/modding to make it work. Would be nice if it’s just plug & play.

 

[optronix]

Honestly- not worth it on this car.

Unless the CTR seats are a direct bolt-in and readily available for a semi-reasonable price, your only option is full on aftermarket and that feels like it doesn't make sense for the character of this car.

But to each their own.

 

[RUNN1N]

CTR seats may be the easiest (eBay has a handful available, they all say Type-R, and replacement covers are available), but I'd bet some teeth you won't get racing-style seats without losing all/most functions.

 

[evanescent03]

I wouldn’t worry too much about functions of the seat… I imagine there are airbag (steering wheel) sensor hacks to at least keep that functional.

CTR seats are a nice option except the red and I doubt I’d like the seat covers. Too “Pep Boys.” I’ll at least take delivery and try the seats out I guess but tracking with the M3 carbon buckets made me drool…. Will def be looking for aggressife seats in my next track car … ITS or otherwise

 

[6-Speedio]

The biggest issue to getting any sort of aftermarket seats that retain OEM functions is the overall low production numbers of this car. They're not tiny, but no company really wants to make parts for a car that will sell 10000-15000 units max. If 1 in 50 owners spends the few thousand dollars to switch out the seats, those numbers are hard to justify to make any sort of real expensive parts.

 

[Kamber]

I'm personally not worried about losing functionality, I prefer manual seats to electronic anyway besides for driver memory function (which I don't believe the ITS has). Only thing I'm concerned with is mitigating an airbag warning light on the dash; hopefully there will be an easy defeat for that.

 

[StingertimeNC]

I'll be putting in my Braum Falcon S fixed buckets, but just for track days. Hoping "Planted" makes a bracket, haven't investigated yet. On the track the 5 point harnesses with the Falcon S seats are awesome. Not great for daily. No adjustments whatsoever though. For the money they are great. I would definitely recommend Braum. They have tons of options.

At the track I just deal with the airbag light being on. I think it's only on for the side airbags, since they are gone. My belief was the steering wheel airbag is always functional, although the passenger front airbag would not be on unless you install the wiring and pressure pads oin the aftermarket seats. A big hassle for a few track days per year. Kind of thinking the 5 point harnesses, fixed seats, and hans device will render the airbags almost useless anyway. I'm no expert though.

 

[bpebler]

I've been wondering (but not looking into it yet) if the memory function can be incorporated from the Aspec & more importantly, if the ventilated seat addition from Mikstore would work. There's not that much info on it if I remember correctly. I'm guessing no, bc I'm sure it would've been discussed here somewhere already.