Can sport seats be retrofitted

irowharderthanyou · 02-13-2006, 10:28 AM

Hey everyone. Can sport seats be retrofitted to a car with the regular seats. If so does anyone want to trade their leather beige sport seats with me?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

KL2DC · 02-13-2006, 10:33 AM

If you can source one, I am sure manual sport seats could be retrofitted with no problems...same hardware I believe. Electric sport seats rerofitted to non-electric standard seats might be more challenging. Eitherway its got to be expensive. Remeber with the e46 when some folks were able to order sport seats as a stand alone ($500 priority-one option)...that would've been great if it was available, I mean there are a lot of folks who chose not to go the full ZSP route for varius reasons e.g. ride, Hi-perf tires, cost. Either way good luck and keep us posted.

irowharderthanyou · 02-13-2006, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by KL2DC

If you can source one, I am sure manual sport seats could be retrofitted with no problems...same hardware I believe. Electric sport seats rerofitted to non-electric standard seats might be more challenging. Eitherway its got to be expensive. Remeber with the e46 when some folks were able to order sport seats as a stand alone ($500 priority-one option)...that would've been great if it was available, I mean there are a lot of folks who chose not to go the full ZSP route for varius reasons e.g. ride, Hi-perf tires, cost. Either way good luck and keep us posted.

Thanks for the info KL2DC!! I would be replacing electric seats with electric sport seats so it might not be as tough unless one has to fool with many wires as well. It may be more of an issue of cost with me. Just checked realoem.com and sport seats are a couple grand

. I will probably just stick with my current seats. For the record, I didn't choose the sport package mainly for cost and the fact that I don't want to buy new tires every 10,000 miles.

jbl16 · 02-13-2006, 11:16 AM

12k miles on my sport tires and they are like new so far

330i sp

ashecnc · 02-13-2006, 11:31 AM

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12k miles on my sport tires and they are like new so far

330i sp

You're driving on water

Kamando · 02-13-2006, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by ashecnc

You're driving on water

So that makes him the BMW equivalent of Jesus?

Broken1 · 02-13-2006, 12:58 PM

Sports seats can be retrofitted quite easily infact! Just remeber that the bolts are one time use only - so you'll need new ones.

Maybe wait a while, and then buy seats from a scrap yard.

irowharderthanyou · 02-13-2006, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Broken1

Sports seats can be retrofitted quite easily infact! Just remeber that the bolts are one time use only - so you'll need new ones.

Maybe wait a while, and then buy seats from a scrap yard.

Thanks Broken1. After reading these posts, I'll just keep my current seats. I don't think its worth the hassle to upgrade.

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