Recaros for my CGT

[Steven Sprague]

Check out Bugworld in Sacramento, CA.  They have a ton of VW stuff.  I don't know their website, but usually have ads in European Car magazine.
    If you are wanting the Recaros out of a 88-89 Jetta GLI/Golf GTI they are manual.  I had a set in my 89 Jetta GLI Wolfsburg Edition and they were great.  These seats were selling for around $1200 a set in good
condition.  The 1990-92 GLI/GTI's were electric and sometimes had motor problems.  I believe VW did go back to the manuals because of motor failure.

Good luck.
Steve

"Roa, Greg" wrote:

> Wow.  Those are very nice.
> When I keep seeing nice seat installations like that, it keeps pushing me towards abandoning my hopes of finishing either of the 4kq leather interiors I have, and switching to a pre-seat airbag set of a4 seats.
> Still would require some mods to fit, but at least I could find a set.
> I'm getting tired of trying to find seat bottoms and such.
> I think it would be less work to just find some and modify them, not to mention cheaper.
>
> Anyhow, I don't have any advice.  I'm not familiar at all with VW seats.
>
> Later!
> Greg Roa
> Cincinnati, OH
> 86' 4kcsq x2
> 93' 90 CS
> 83' 944
>
> >From: David <duandcc_forums at cox.net>
> >To: quattro at audifans.com
> >Subject: Recaros for my CGT
> >Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 9:32:49 -0400
> >
> >Now that the exterior is done, it's time to concentrate on the interior. I'=
> >ve got a non-airbag 90 Sport wheel on it's way the search begins for a shif=
> >t knob and seats. The shift knob I want is a black leather & CF A4 knob. An=
> >ybody want to sell me one cheap? ;) But the real question is on the seats. =
> >I REALLY want to use VW Recaros. They are simply gorgeous. I understand tha=
> >t some mods need to be done to the mounts to get them to fit my CGT. I beli=
> >ve the rails need to be heated then pulled out to widen them. Can anyone co=
> >nfirm this? Also, anybody have a good (read cheap) source for used VW parts=
> >? Are there any good/honest/fair/inexpensive recyclers like Force5? Oh, the=
> >se are the seats in question: http://members.cox.net/duandcc_forums/Recaro%=
> >20Seats.jpg
> >
> >TIA!