Fitting Recaro's help

[JamboM3]

Ive read the guide on Cliomods and removed and fitted numerous sets of seats in Bmw's and also Vauxhalls.

Why oh why oh why oh why did they put seat bolts to be undone from underneath the car, and let alone that...


How in the name of sweet f**king christ are you supposed to get the drivers side tunnel rail bolt out?!?!

There is no room to get to it because the cat is in the way and it wont move over.

 

[The Boosh!]

Want me to come help you mate? I've had the seats out my 182 no end of times.

 

[JamboM3]

Are you bumming around today then?

 

[The Boosh!]

Well i'm working until 5 lol.

Sounds strange though as the cat was never in the way when I removed my seats. Tripple check you are looking at the correct bolt mate. There are holes cut into the heat sheild so you can access the bolt with a wrench + extension + number 13 socket

 

[JamboM3]

Yeah deffo the bolt, i can get the ratchet head on there, but it wont move over enough to let me get on it.

I'll post a crap picture hang on

 

[JamboM3]

Angle you can see here, i cant get the thing straight on so in turn cant undo the bolt

 

[The Boosh!]

Is the camera facing towards the back or the front of the car?

Have you got a different cat fitted as my cat doesn't look like that lol?

It's the front seats your removing yeh?

 

[JamboM3]

Thats facing to rear of the car and yes my cat is a Janspeed one which i think may be the problem lol

and yes front seats mate

 

[The Boosh!]

In fact i've just figured it out lol.

Your exhaust has a centre section where as mine is just a pipe

Can you not get someone to pull the exhaust while you do it? Maybe slacken off the mounts at the rear too, that will help

 

[Gray]

that's the centre box fouling your LONG socket extension....

Use a smaller extension, or a wobbler socket to get the correct leverage

Or try pushing your exhaust, you should be able to get on the nut it will just be a little awkward.. once you've cracked it they are only finger tight!

 

[JamboM3]

Ah ok sorry im not up on exhaust lingo!

I have no smaller extension, only smaller one i have is too small

I can move it, but it wont budge more than a quarter of an inch and i need at least an inch to play with

 

[Gray]

i need at least an inch to play with

LMAO....










ahh sorry! :rasp:

 

[JamboM3]

haha LOLZ

 

[Saner]

Where in Berkshire are you, I have a wobbler scoket that might help?

 

[JamboM3]

I have a wobbler (Quiet at the back) but its too large


Thats SO going to get quoted :lol:

 

[Saner]

lol, so you can't put the scoket onto the wobbler then the extension?. If you not too far away i'm happy to try and push the exhaust out the way!

 

[The Boosh!]

He's somewhere near you IIRC saner.

(Jambo he's in Bracknell FYI)

 

[Gray]

you back daaaaaawn saaaaaaath Saner?!

 

[Saner]

lol, sure am for this week only! I'll be back up on Sunday!

 

[JamboM3]

Looks like im going to need better tools or end up giving it to my Tech mate for the day to sort.

 

[The Boosh!]

Poof

 

[Gray]

It takes less than 10 mins to swap each seat over... can you not borrow a different socket extension off a friend?

 

[Saner]

Obviously I'm not good enough

 

[JamboM3]

I will have to borrow an extension aye. But i doubt thats gunna help, the centre section will need to be moved or i need one of these with a 13mm head:

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/..._productId_167650_langId_-1_categoryId_165572

And Saner, appreciate the offer chap, wouldnt wanna put you out as a mate is a tech and wont mind doing it

 

[Baldin0]

I fitted my recaros bout a month ago and that bolt made me rage. Like yours you cant even get a good fit to unscrew it, and on top of that the bottom half was rusted
ended up using a spanner and worked it out doing quarter turns at a time. Took ages but I got there

 

[JamboM3]

Yeah looks like that might be the answer glad I'm not the only one

 

[Jonny1*2]

when you finally get round to doing the resistors. The cliomod guide is wrong. The Black cable is the earth, and the brown is the live. You might also need to keep your original DS handrake side rail, as the chip thingy on it (caused a fault when I swapped mine over) remains plugged in too. No idea what it does though.