Thanks for the repsonse Steve. I wonder if they changed the design of the seat? Clearly the Xlr8tnC5 and Purerock105 had serious issues fitting their A4's as they posted in Installed Corbeau A4's (WHAT A PITA!!!) and Corbeau A4 seats installed.
When did you get your seats? You did keep the stock seat belts, right?

I'm all over this GP if I KNOW the seats will fit properly while retaining the stock seat belts and sliding all the way back.

 

I may be interested.

 

I am DEFINITELY interested. I was going to pull the trigger on a set of A4's locally. A guy bought them for this car but needed money. Only to find out they are red instead of black. I will be in on the GP. Can we include brackets and belts as well? I'd also like them without embroidery.

 

Is this going anywhere?

 

Good Luck with the GP. I'm afraid Corbeau has factory directed pricing. All the retailer's I looked at charged EXACTLY the same price and ALL included shipping on Corbeau seats. I'm all for you guys getting a deal, but I don't think Corbeau (or it's retailers) will "play."

Already got mine. Love 'em. Wouldn't recomend the microsuede though, as they seem to discolor (purple from black) with age/sun.

 

I noticed that my thread regarding my install was linked here and I just wanted to answer a few questions for anyone interested in the A4's.

1st, they are AWESOME! I love my A4 seats, now that everything is in appropriately. They do sit lower than stock by about an inch or more. I am only 5'4" and in order for me to reach/see over the dash, I do have to have the seatback up almost all the way. lol.

The problems we ran into when my husband installed them for me was that on the replacement slider rails, there was an "L" bracket on the inside by the console. The seats WILL NOT fit with that bracket on the rail. We dremmeled it off. The rails then fit exactly into the stock slider rail holes. However, when installing the seats onto the slider rail, the seat lever to recline the seat backs (A4's are the only one with Reclining seats) was coming into contact with the STOCK seatbelt mounts and retractors. We removed them as well. We dremmeled a nice cut along the plastic mounting surface, and unless you are actually sitting in the hatch, you would never see that it is "open" there now. Once we removed these on BOTH sides, the seats fit fine.

I do have the microsuede and I have had it for close to a year now and have had no fading problems, but my car is usually garaged 3/4's of the week. And I have BLACK limo tint on my windows that allows for minimal sun exposure. Not to mention, when I am driving it, I put a sun shade in the windsheild as well. So, I have no problems with the fading that someone mentioned.

The only problem I have with the suede is that it attracts lint and hair, and stuff easily. lol. no biggie though. I just cannot get over how much more secure I feel in these seats though. They are very comfortable. As far as Corbeau's customer service and knowledge of the C5 placement of these seats, I would rate them a 1 on a scale of 10! However, if you can go through someone else to get the seats, do so, the seats themselves are beautiful!

Hope this helps.

If anyone has any further questions, you all are more than welcome to PM me.

Best Regards,

Tanya

 

Fixing the price that retailers charge is illegal. Let's hope one of them gets in.

 

Thanks for clarifying the fittment issues Tanya. I wonder if installing the driver's seat on the passenger side and vice versa is how to get around the issue you had with the recline lever hitting the lower stock belt retractor.

If I could just get confirmation that switching the sides the seats are installed on will allow you to retain the stock seat belt retractors and the ability to slide the seat all the way back, I'm in. Assuming we can even get them to give a GP

 

No its not... A manufacturer can make a company charge a certain price in order to comply with their dealer agreement. Its called M.A.P. "Manufacturer Authorized Pricing"

It is illegal when a manufacturer doesnt have M.A.P. pricing but dealers in a certain geographical location stear the market by conspiring together to "Fix" a price within their area. Therefore "Forcing" the consumers in that area to pay a certain price.

I have a set of custom leather A4's sitting in the box ready to install. I found the reps at Corbeau to be AWESOME..

 

Actually M.A.P. stands for: Minimum Advertised Price. This means that an authorized dealer is regulated and has an agreement with the manufacture to keep all advertised pricing at or above the MAP price that is set and determined by the manufacture. This helps avoid price wars between dealers. If an authorized dealer is found advertising below Map, they risk losing thier dealership for that product. However the dealers can sell as low as they want as long as the don't advertise it.

 

we should h ave some info tommorrow on what kind of deal we can get. Free shipping at the least on seats and rails. Also if Larry can get get us a few % discount on the items themselves it will be golden. Be back with an update. but for now lets try to get a head count of how many people we have. List what seat and what finish and any special requests (i.e. delete corbeau lettering.)


1 Heavychevy - A4 black microsuede

 

Well then I will be sending out lots of p.m.s if they tell me that is the case.

 

Setting a fixed price that distributors/retailers must abide by is illegal.

 

I'll take a pair of cloth Black A4s or Forza 1s with brackets (but not for a vette) and a pair of black 4-point harnesses. Corbeau lettering removed.

 

No its not illegal! I am a dealer and every manufacture I deal with imposes and enforces a MAP policy on us. Remember this only regulates what we dealers ADVERTISE our prices at. If us dealers decide to do so we can sell at any price or give it away if we wanted to.

 

We're saying the same thing. They can't fix the price that you sell it. They can impose the price that you advertise at (which has been challenged in US courts and often loses, by the way). You can sell at whatever price you want, provided you aren't using predatory pricing practices, but advertising at a different price can violate your agreement, but even that is challengeable should you want to spend the money to go to court. As an $11B manufacturer, with a distribution base of more than 50k distributors/retailers, and a corporate legal staff that advises us on this all the time, I've had it drilled into me. Regardless, we are really saying the same thing.

 

Yes we are saying the same thing!

Now with this said, can we get a GP on these seats?

 

The leather option is ridiculous.

$400 per seat it looks like im seeing on other sites.

 

I thought it was "sold in pairs only" so the $400 was a price for a set, not per seat.


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