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I went for a ride today and these seats are much better and comfortable than the factory C5 seats.
A professional would have done a nicer job I'm sure...LOL
This is the plastic part that had to be trimmed off.
I remember that I unscrewed a small screw toward the rear of that plastic piece which allowed it to move further into the seat when compressed so I didn't need to do any trimming
just in case this comes up in future searches -- instead of trimming the plastic piece on the c7 seat -- you can just swap in c6 seatbelts, and do some minor trim on the plastic trim on the C5 itself (the piece costs about $25 on ebay, if you want to practice first, and the seatbelt swap takes about 15 minutes) -- The c6 seatbelts give you over an inch of additional clearance, and the c7 seats fit perfectly:
And by the way, if you want to go that route, I have the part number for the plastic piece for the c7 seat, mine was damaged when I got the seats had to replace them. not quite $25 but not bad.
Very interesting! I would have considered that when I started the project.
My objective was to keep everything C5 untrimmed so the car can be reverted back to stock. Don't ask me why, I'm just weird that way. LOL
Everything works fine but looks a little shoddy with my craftmanship or lack thereof...LOL
I'm no mechanic but I made this work for me.
Thanks for the input, I do appreciate it!
Originally Posted by JMG2
just in case this comes up in future searches -- instead of trimming the plastic piece on the c7 seat -- you can just swap in c6 seatbelts, and do some minor trim on the plastic trim on the C5 itself (the piece costs about $25 on ebay, if you want to practice first, and the seatbelt swap takes about 15 minutes) -- The c6 seatbelts give you over an inch of additional clearance, and the c7 seats fit perfectly:
And by the way, if you want to go that route, I have the part number for the plastic piece for the c7 seat, mine was damaged when I got the seats had to replace them. not quite $25 but not bad.
Very interesting! I would have considered that when I started the project.
My objective was to keep everything C5 untrimmed so the car can be reverted back to stock. Don't ask me why, I'm just weird that way. LOL
Everything works fine but looks a little shoddy with my craftmanship or lack thereof...LOL
I'm no mechanic but I made this work for me.
Thanks for the input, I do appreciate it!
I hear you on keeping the c5 stock -- the plastic trim you cut though is about $25 off ebay. I bought 2 pairs, thinking I'd practice on one and keep the one that came with the car original -- the cut is so easy I got it right the first time, put the original trim pieces in a bin.
Anyway, seats look great, I love the c7 fit and look in the c5.
If you have telescoping steering and need help getting that enabled, we have that problem fixed too.
Question on the C7 to C5 seat swap: I've read all (I think) of the threads on this swap and had a question about the seats themselves. I've noticed some seats have the C7 logo just above the hole/under the raised "headrest" section of the seat and some don't. Does that designate the seat as a premium/3LT or anything like that. There is a set of black C7 seats for sale locally that I'm considering that do not have the logo, and I didn't know if that meant anything one way or the other.
I'm with Mr. Black. They do look good in the C5 and not as out of place as C8 seats, but the prices on them are still a little out of my desired range lol.
