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[FLD]

Can I buy one now to 'look over'

[badgerade]

MX5 owners like the standard VX seats.. maybe we should be letting them try these out for us first?

[J4EY D]

MX5 owners like the standard VX seats.. maybe we should be letting them try these out for us first? :poke:/>

We could make a profit selling our seats to them!!

[TazN]

James I think you've read a bit too much in to Mikes post. I read it very much as an expression of concern regarding something invloving safety which Mike has always shown to be of the highest priorty (and rightly so).

Kieran, no idea what your background is. Do you know what to check for apart from just trying it out - I presume you wont be having a deliberate crash to test it...

If you have the seats but lack the experience or knowledge maybe someone from the forum could give you more of an understanding in what to check unless they are able to inspect them? and ofc lots of piccies

[Tony H]

Are these seats known on seloc? Maybe there is some info on there.

[Steelic]

At this rate the price of the seats may go up to quench the 'Too cheap' Brigade.

[Jase_MK]

Following this thread with interest. After a few VXs, I'm now an MX5 owner and have been teetering on the edge of getting a pair of JK seats for a while. Dtt and Allon White are both about a mile from my office, so I'm looking for a reasonably priced composite seat that I can get some nice pads made for.

MX5 owners like the standard VX seats.. maybe we should be letting them try these out for us first? :poke:/>

We could make a profit selling our seats to them!!

Seriously. I guarantee that if you list a pair of VX seats on mx5nutz.com, they'll sell almost straight away. They can't get enough of them. They sit nice and low in the MX. In fact, if anyone has a cheap pair of cloth VX seats, I'd be tempted myself instead of going the composites route.

Edited by Jase_MK, 01 May 2013 - 04:07 PM.

[JG]

What do they usually go for Jase?

[Jase_MK]

VX and Elise seats are pretty hard to come by, but I've been keeping an eye on completed ebay listings recently. A pair of leather seats should fetch at least £200, or possibly more. You see the occasional single seat go for £80+. Cloth seats obviously less. Someone on the MX site is currently selling a set of leather Elise seats (which are a bit prettier, IMO, with the suede headrest section) for £200. I'm sure they'll sell pretty soon.

[Hark]

I sold mine to a guy for his MK5. He paid £160 for old tired biscuit seats with ripped bolsters. He then paid over £100 to have them shipped to Belgium. I thought it might be a scam until I had the money of him tbh. Mental.

[tommobot]

There's a thread on seloc where a chap took standard seats, removed all covering, painted the shell of the seat and then had padding created by a trimming company. They looked very good, near indentical to the club racer seats posted in this thread. As they were the standard seats as such, there would be no issues with strength...

[smiley]

I thought it might be a scam until I had the money of him tbh. Mental.

These seats are 1700 euro a piece new huh.
Mine also went to an MX5 owner.

[techieboy]

Any verdict on these, post Snetterton? :unsure:/> I saw a few examples of what looked like identical seats (clearly originally moulded from the Exige seats) at Stoneleigh yesterday and even when properly mounted in a couple of the cars, there was too much flex in them - you could twist the backrest. :o/> :(/>

[Bargi]

These are not for those of us of the bigger boned persuasion, stick with the JKs if you need some cheap seats.

[jameso]

And for the more slender of us? :P/>

Edited by jameso, 06 May 2013 - 09:33 AM.

[Kieran McC]

I had the the seats fitted yesterday ,Bargi is true in what he said , The seats do tend to hug you down the side making them quite narrow, ok for the likes of me. The other problem I did have was fitting them to my runners, As the seats fit straight into a lotus theirs must be slightly different. Lee has the JK compsites fitted in his and compearing the two yesterday the JK seates seemed to flex more down the back but will take a larger framed person . I will not post the supplier at present , If any one wants a set I am more than happy to pass on the supplier details via a PM

[ArticMonkey]

Slender they're very nice to sit in and comfortable. Padding and trim would need to be added or you could use exciting products like off the JK's. I personally wouldn't know what amount of flex is good or bad but they sit well and don't move much at all.

[techieboy]

I personally wouldn't know what amount of flex is good or bad but they sit well and don't move much at all.

No me neither.

Trying those properly mounted seats in one of the MEV cars yesterday, grabbing it either side of the head rest and only applying what felt like reasonable force, I reckon it was twisting 10-15° along the length of it's backrest. Trying the same on a Tillet B5 (carbon fibre, twin skin by the look of it) in one of their other demo cars and no movement at all. Likewise, trying it on the standard VX seats and I get maybe 1° of twist but that may actually just be some play in the subframes as it's also rocking slightly. At a guess, no movement is the ideal and the less the better. Probably.

I guess that's the problem with trying to make seats as light as possible. Without resorting to exotic materials and the subsequent costs, you can't make them stiff enough without freaking out some lightness Nazi in a 50oz kit car who's worried about the difference between a 4kg seat and a 5kg seat.

[ArticMonkey]

The question is with flex around the headrest, does it effect you while driving? Your harnesses will pin you into the seat and your body would act to stiffen the seat. (thinking out loud here). IMO as long as the seat/belt mounting point are strong enough and there's no movement in the subframe it's safe.

[Aris26]

I do not think that the main problem is if it good on driving or how it feels. Do you imagine if you crash and that crap material has to resist some g multiplied by your weight