Seat R&R

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

Going well so far.

To those who said the ur-quattro seats weren't made by Recaro: "Yah,
boo, sucks".

To those who think Recaro make the best seats in the world - an
identical: "Yah, boo, sucks".

I suspect there are more components in an ur-quattro seat than in the
engine.  Every fastener known to man is used, including some devilish
triangular clips, some of those "hidden" dowel things, and some
fiendishly knotted tape.  A piece of tape pulled tight by some German
ten years ago, regularly stressed, and heated by an adjacent seat
heating element is _NOT_ easy to undo.

Anyway, the creaking sound is caused by four _CLASSIC_ fatigue fractures
in the upper frame.  Doesn't every engineer know by now that cracks
propagate from stressed right angle joints?  The frame is in the welding
shop to have some fillets inserted.

I would also characterise the polster failure as a design fault.  The
frame has bent rods welded to it, and the polster has plastic
reinforcements where it sits on these rods.  Every one is split down
the middle.

Anyone BTDT?  Are the devilish triangular clips a standard type of
fastener that I might find off-the-shelf somewhere, or do I have to
devise some other way of holding the covers firmly in place?

--
 Phil Payne
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