[urq] Audi Seat Back Repair

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Martin
My 87 coupe parts car has height adjustment for the passenger seat. Interior is cloth. I plan to use it when I redo the seats in my 83 urq.
John

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From: "Martin Pajak" <martin at quattro.ca> 

> Andrew, 
> 
> Thanks for the info. I am also hopiong to one day upgrade to quattro script. 
> 
> I've seen some early '82 Coupes with leather seats that had pass seats 
> with height adjustment... that is also a nice option to have for tall 
> passangers 
> 
> Cheers 
> 
> -- 
> Martin Pajak 
> 
> http://www.quattro.ca 
> 
> 1982 Audi Ur-quattro (50,000 mi) new project 
> 1983 Audi Ur-quattro (85,000 mi) Concourse d'Elegance 
> 1985 Audi Ur-quattro (212,000 km) Euro spec. import mit 3B :) 
> 1987 Audi 4000s quattro (205,000 km) wintervagen mit 7A :) 
> 
> 
> > Andrew Finney 
> > For what it is worth, after many false starts and some $$ paid for wrong 
> > parts, I finally discovered that the VW cabriolet has seat backs that are 
> > fully interchangeable with the UrQ seats. I needed a tilting seat back to 
> > convert my 4000Q Quattro Script seats to ones that could be used in the 
> > UrQ 
> > monster project. All you need to do is glue a small spacer washer of 
> > 1/4-inch thickness to the 3 cog seat back adjustors from the 4000Q seats, 
> > drill a single hole in the side of the cabriolet seat back frame, mount 
> > with 
> > a single screw, and voila you're good to go. It was interesting to note 
> > that 
> > even within Audi the seat back designs changed so much even within 1 year. 
> > Some of the seats have flat sides to the steel frames while others have 
> > big 
> > indents. The 3-cog seat adjustor that raises the seat adjustors to a 
> > height 
> > suitable for quattros (with the bigger tranmission tunnel) even changed to 
> > work with the seats with the indents and ones without the indents. Crazy. 
> > One small weird data point, while Audi Coupes switched to plastic "D" 
> > guides 
> > for the seat pull cables (as opposed to the earlier white grommets that 
> > you'll find on the '83 cars) the '94 cabriolet was still usiing the same 
> > system as the early UrQs with the grommets. FWIW. 
> > 
> > Andrew Finney 
> > 1983 and 1985 UrQs. 
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