Recaro Seat info - updated

[Shifty.]

i have the recaros in my cup, and blacked out rear windows so from the outside you cant tell its a cheapo rear bench. i have a harness on the driver seat so no-one sits behind me and very rarely have anyone in the back, when i have they've not even noticed what their sat on......so ill live with them as they are, money would be better spent elsewhere. leathers look good though

[jack_davey]

Some further info for those interested:

The subframes fitted to Trophys and any other 182 that had the trendlines fitted from factory are different to those that you can buy aftermarket from Recaro.
You can tell if the subframes are aftermarket as the mounting brackets that sit on the inside (closest the handbrake lever) have a large hole drilled in them (about an inch in diameter at a guess) where as the ones on a 182 with factory recaros wont. There are other differences, but this one is the most obvious.
The aftermarket ones are also lower, hence why the Renault slide handle fouls the seat as seen on the guide listed on www.cliomods.com

Also the seats differ ever so slightly depending on whether they were fitted to the car from factory or aftermarket. The factory ones have a leather headrest whereas the aftermarket ones have a dinamica suede headrest.

The resistors you get from the likes of capital seating to extinguish the airbag light are also universal and therefore different to the ones you'll find on a 182 with
factory fitted Recaros.

[RestoK]

Anyone has any luck disabling the airbag and service light? I've those lights on ever since I've put the Recaro seats on. Went to local dealership to see if they can help out with that. They told me they could, but the lights may come back......

[Doncaster _K9]

Anyone has any luck disabling the airbag and service light? I've those lights on ever since I've put the Recaro seats on. Went to local dealership to see if they can help out with that. They told me they could, but the lights may come back......

The airbag module can be turned off using the renault clip system. I'd be suprised if a renault dealer would do this - but hey ho.
RS tuner module will also do it, I believe.
Any garage with a clip system can do it - I went to DDC (doncaster) and it was done for £25. Mick @ diamond motors on here etc etc will offer this service. Once its deactivated, its deactivated - so not sure what your garage is on about (unless they were going to try the resistor trick lol).

[jack_davey]

I went to the breakers yard today, cut the airbag plugs off of some dynamique seats, then soldered some resistors onto the remains of the wires coming out the plugs.
Makes it nice and easy to just plug them in and then unplug them when you want to refit your old seats. Alternatively you could get an airbag computer out of a cup
that's being broken for bits.

[RestoK]

What's the reading on the resistor you put on the plug? Thanks for the help!

[patrick_]

Is anyone familiar with the striped Recaro seats? According to http://www.cliotrophy.ch they were fitted into Clio Trophy's. But I cannot find any evidence, just two pictures of the seats only on ebay. I haven't found any other pictures, all Trophy's I found had the black alcantara/leather recaro seats.. Anyone here with pictures and information? What are they:

[Wick]

I've seen a 172cup from France on here specced with those.

[Beef-Mc]

They were fitted to the 50 Trophies that went to Switzerland.

[patrick_]

They were fitted to the 50 Trophies that went to Switzerland.

Thanks!

Edit:

Found pictures of a Swiss one.

[Beef-Mc]

I actually quite liked the look of them compared to the ones that we got, there was a set on French eVay a while back and they were going for double what a set here cost!

[Jon.G]

Yeah, they're not bad because the actually match the rear bench.