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I’m planning on replacing my seats and want to spend as least as possible. Some of these seats on Amazon “look” nice.
Unfortunately none of them directly say they will fit and I haven’t been able to find anything using the search function. Has anyone installed these or some of the same dimensions?
Don't do that. Those seats would be barely safe to use as gaming chairs, let alone in a real car.
OMP, Sparco, Cobra (NOT Corbeau), Recaro. These are pretty much the only seats you should even consider buying.
Agree with the rest. Seats are something you dont want to cheap out on. Like FAUEE said, safety is zero in the amazon specials... Stick to reputable brands like Sparco, Corbeau, Recaro, Cobra... Go to a pro shop and sit in them first and find one that fits you then verify fitment in the car. I tried to make Sparco r100s work and despite them fitting in the car I was to tall for the seat. You really need to take your time and get the right setup. Check out the autocross section for the Does this seat fit my car thread. Lots of good info in there.
Remember the safety aspect of cheap seats if you are in an accident.
Even spending more on something like Corbeau is questionable as I think pretty much all these are made in the same Chinese factory with different labeling.
Recaro/Bride/ Cobra are the ones I’d probably bet my life on, but no less than Sparco or Corbeau for sure
The sketchy thing about Bride's in the US is finding real ones... theres a ton of knock offs out there. Sparco, Recaro and OMP are probably top tier in the states, Corbeau has gotten alot better in the last few years.
Ditto what others have said. Take the money you were going to drop on the Amazon seats and put it in a piggy bank until you get enough in there to buy a reputable brand. You'll get those and realize how shitty they are and regret not spending a little more to get a good quality product.
The sketchy thing about Bride's in the US is finding real ones... theres a ton of knock offs out there. Sparco, Recaro and OMP are probably top tier in the states, Corbeau has gotten alot better in the last few years.
Agreed, most Bride seats in the US are fake. Bride doesn't sell seats here, so unless they're imported from Japan, they're cheap Chinese fakes. I wouldn't risk MY safety in a Corbeau.
Agreed, most Bride seats in the US are fake. Bride doesn't sell seats here, so unless they're imported from Japan, they're cheap Chinese fakes. I wouldn't risk MY safety in a Corbeau.
Thats fair on the Corbeaus, your actually the one that talked me out of them and why I went Sparco. Unfortuantely my gamble on the r100s didnt pay off so I'm back to square one, Probably going to go to an Evo XL on Marrad brackets if i dont find a set of c7 comps soon.
What is unsafer about them? In a frontal crash you would go forward into the airbag and what seat you have doesn't matter? Unsafe in rear crashes???
it does when the seat comes unattached from the floor or breaks at the base and compresses your spine. Truthfully if your going to run any aftermarket seat you need to commit to not using any of the factory safety equipment and not driving the car on the street anymore. A track setup is a completely different safety system than the factory stuff. The factory stuff is designed to save you in a collision. Track safety equipment is designed to keep you in the seat in the event of a rollover on track. The two are not designed to work together. Any track safety equipment in a street car is arguably less safer than the factory components. People still do it and get away with it all the time but its important to know the risk and decide on rather or not your willing to accept that risk.
it does when the seat comes unattached from the floor or breaks at the base and compresses your spine. Truthfully if your going to run any aftermarket seat you need to commit to not using any of the factory safety equipment and not driving the car on the street anymore. A track setup is a completely different safety system than the factory stuff. The factory stuff is designed to save you in a collision. Track safety equipment is designed to keep you in the seat in the event of a rollover on track. The two are not designed to work together. Any track safety equipment in a street car is arguably less safer than the factory components. People still do it and get away with it all the time but its important to know the risk and decide on rather or not your willing to accept that risk.
I'm curious on all this not trying to argue. I'm thinking about it and still don't get it so in a front crash all the force is on the seat belt bolts as your body flies forward. Right?
Didn't take it as arguing, no worries, hope i didnt come across that way either. True to a degree but also consider the fact that your stock seatbelt clasps are mounted to the seat and also have a safety mechanism built into them. When you got to an aftermarket style seat that now gets bolted to the aftermarket bracket. None of that is tested for sheering forces caused in a frontal impact. Not saying for sure it would but "if" it breaks your going into the wheel. The factory stuff is all designed to work in unison to keep you contained in the seat when things go wrong. Thats where its on the individual to decide what level of relative safety their comfortable with. I personally believe when its your time its your time and no amount of preventative measures are going to change that but I also believe its important to mitigate risk as well.
That's right face palm this gen is on the seat bracket. Hmm there are some well used aftermarket brackets that really don't have a large piece of steel there. I always looked at cheap seats in the seat material problem of it fading and cracking and just not being comfortable. The stock seat has a lot of steal in the bolt down areas in comparison to many brackets. Just how much is really needed I wonder. Pic of bracket and maybe a bracket maker would chime in?
I had the sparco brackets when i bought my r100s, they are a stout piece but def not as stout as the factory stuff imo. I'm no engineer though, I guess alot of factors there to take into consideration.
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