Sport Seat bladders
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Sport Seat bladders
I have to say that GM really cheaped out on the seat bladders. I honestly do not adjust the seat that much, but when I finally wanted to adjust the lumbars they did not work. In fact, out of both seats and all 8 bladders only one was still operational....I ended up placing an order with C&S corvettes and hope to have them tomorrow or so...These have the updated nipples so they will last longer. I was going to go the blood pressure bladder way, but for the extra 80 bucks or so I decided to stick with the updated oem replacements. Now if these new ones fail anytime soon then blood pressure bladders it will be...fingers crossed
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I hear you, but Lyle (C&S) claims that the updated nipples corrects the issue so I figured I would give it a shot. I was looking at about $80 to $100 for the blood pressure bladders on ebay and other sites unless I wanted to wait months for a China delivery. If I did I could have kept the cost to around $50-$60 bucks.....But I was not willing to wait months....I was around $190 for all 8 bladders so it was fine with me....
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The bladders are at a minimum 15 years old and things do degrade over time. However, with the new ones you should be good to go for a long time.
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Mine are 21 years old. I am not complaining but I heard that most failed in the first few years...I installed the new ones yesterday and all is good...
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Not to ruin your thread, but my Father in Laws C5 seats getting a bit worn out.. I wonder if a set of C7 GT seats would fit in a C5... would be a hell of an upgrade if they fit
