Re: Seat interchangeability

[four.rings@MCIONE.com]

Avi Meron wrote:
> 
> You are correct, the tracks are NOT interchangeable, but there is a way to
do it.....if somebody is interested I will try to dig my brain over it.
BTDT
on a 5K, from 4K to a 5K..

Avi is right, they are not even close in dimensions.

Below is some BTDT, fresh from the news press.

I spent this morning at the fellow lister's Mike Zamikhovsky house, who
had kindly offered his 5 car garage and his fleet of assorted Audis to
play with in the seat game.

Here's the scope on the distances between the rear seat's sliders:

The manual 4000/Coupe GT/UrQ seat - 465mm
The manual A4 seat - 560mm
The manual/electrical 5000/100/200 seat - 580mm

The channels on the floor of the A4 are 570mm apart.

The 4000 seat will fit the Coupe GT and UrQ. The centre rail fits also,
however the centre release mechanism is slightly different and becomes
very difficult to operate.

The 4000 seat is not even close to fitting the A4, the rear sliding base
is waaaay too narrow.

The 5000 seat almost fits the A4, however it jams before reaching all
the way down for the channels. I have a feeling that if we had a seat to
destroy and would've used my favourite high precision tool (the BFH), we
could've bent the seat sliders slightly inwards. All we needed were
lousy 10mm.

Then again, the relative position of the centre perforated rail might
have become an issue, coz on the A4 this rail is visibly offset to the
centre of the car.

Bottom line: I am stuck.
On top of that, if you disable the seat airbag on the '98 A4 (of course
having had disconnected the battery prior to that), the airbag watchdog
does pick up a fault code and the light comes on.
If you reconnect it back, THE LIGHT WILL CONTINUE TO STAY ON! My dealer
warned me about this and it is indeed true. All A4 owners take a note.

-- 
Igor Kessel
'89 200TQ -- 18psi (TAP)
'98 A4TQ
Philadelphia, PA
USA