BMW seats

[Russ]

I've owned a couple E30 bmw's. Both of them were the Sport models which had factory Recaro seats. I've been talking about those seats for years now. I finally found a set last week on craigslist and snatched them up. I wasn't crazy about the color at first, but it works pretty good with a red bronco. The driver seat was a simple bolt down. The passenger seat would obviously require a riser bracket, OR the direction I'm taking is to box in the passenger floor board to match the driver side. What do you guys think of the seats?

 

[rhino2104]

Looks pretty good. I'm not wild about the color but I can see how it could work out pretty well depending on the color of the Bronco.

 

[Russ]

These are the prp's I've been running. They're a great trail seat, but a pain for daily driver purposes.

I've got some work ahead of me on the floors.

 

[bigmuddy]

Very comfortable. bronco buddy has a black cloth set and they are super supportive and very comfortable, he loves them.

Nice.

ben

 

[rhino2104]

I wish my floor pans looked even half that clean. My dad keeps saying that I need to get them fixed other wise I'll be Fred Flintstoneing it.

 

[trailpsycho]

Seats look good. I got a pair and belts from a 318ti. Nice seats...black with a very high grade of vinyl. They look like they might sit a touch higher than yours, though. Comfy is comfy...so if you like them, rock 'em out.

Good luck with the floors.

 

[bwnieder]

I'm not a red guy either but that is a great looking seat.

 

[bigmuddy]

By the way, I have had some really really good luck with staining seats a different color, particullarly black. Might be an option if you get where you can't stand the red color.

Ben

 

[RV77]

Seats look good. I got a pair and belts from a 318ti. Nice seats...black with a very high grade of vinyl. They look like they might sit a touch higher than yours, though. Comfy is comfy...so if you like them, rock 'em out.

Good luck with the floors.

TP -I was going to ask you what seats those are in your pics.Since I have to look at it everytime I flip open my PC !!


Russ - I like the style and headrests on those seats...How tall are you and were is your F of V ?? (field of Vision )

 

[kaw550]

I have a similar set from a BMW. On the passenger side I used a scrap piece of c channel that was about four inches wide.

I may go back and make a storage compartment.

 

[roundhouse]

I used Miata seats, but I just cut a spacer from 1 1/2 conduit and with all thread through the center, in the same hole as the origional EB seat.

 

[toddz69]

I've owned a couple E30 bmw's. Both of them were the Sport models which had factory Recaro seats. I've been talking about those seats for years now. I finally found a set last week on craigslist and snatched them up. I wasn't crazy about the color at first, but it works pretty good with a red bronco. The driver seat was a simple bolt down. The passenger seat would obviously require a riser bracket, OR the direction I'm taking is to box in the passenger floor board to match the driver side. What do you guys think of the seats?

I have the tan Sport seats in my '91 318is and find them very comfortable. Unfortunately they're too high off the floor for me (6'4"). I did some research looking into options for seats resembling the Recaros I liked so much as a kid and came up with the Recaro seats that came in the previous generation Bimmers - the E21 cars. I recently put them in my Bronco and am really happy with them.

Todd Z.

 

[Russ]

I'm 5'9" and my FOV is perfect. I'ld bet 6'4" would be less than ideal.

 

[eb66to77]

I have a set of seats from a euro-spec 730i. They sit way too high for me on the driver's platform (6'0") but I plan on cutting the floor down on the crawler project so I wil;l use them there. Like yours, my seats have all of the adjsutments of power seats but they are manual.