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Re: Recaro Seats...
« Reply #10 on: 04 February 2010, 11:30 »
Look identical to my 'Recaro' seats, same shape, same badge. They're bog std pre-90 MK2 shape seats, I have swapped bolsters over from std seats into mine, frames are identical to std pre-90 GTI seats also.  I'm pretty sure yours have been retrimmed too, bog std MK2 leather didn't have different colour piping AFAIK.

FWIW, I swear blind I saw a vag options catalogue pic somewhere years ago with these shape seats with the very same logo on them. It is also an old saying that all GTI seats were made by Recaro, possibly the early ones were.  Alos to add an interesting dimension to this discussion, the backrest angle knobs on my seats both have 'Recaro' written on them, whereas std GTI seats do not.

Is the colour of the rear bench 100% the same? could be fronts are random option from another early model, rear bench trimmed to match. The catalogue I mention above I'm pretty sure was MK1 cabrio, and remember they were made by the coachbuilders Karmann, so different seat trim options might have existed plus special leather retrims etc.  I know my seats arn't original fabric, they have been retrimmed in velour!

These are definitely not the MK2 Recaros as we know them here in the UK, the UK MK2 Recaros looked just like the Edition ones you pictured, just with varying fabric trim colours.

2nd & 3rd pic down the backrests don't look like any std VAG seat that I know of, look more like BMW/Vauxhaull Recaro seats!  Bases look like scirocco ones to me, however interestingly they have plastic trims down the sides just like OEM Recaros do, plus is that an electric switch I spy there?
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Re: Recaro Seats...
« Reply #11 on: 04 February 2010, 14:35 »
All optional Recaros for the Mk2 in Europe and the USA where shaped like the edition ones in the bottom pic. Also, the RECARO logo was always embroidered, not a separate badge (like Ford used in the RS Turbo).

The standard seats (which yours are) may well have been manufactured by Recaro, although I've never confirmed that as a fact. However they never came with Recaro logos on.
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Re: Recaro Seats...
« Reply #12 on: 04 February 2010, 14:42 »
the last pic is the set im currently watching on ebay! :lipsrsealed: no one else bid, thanku please! :grin:

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Re: Recaro Seats...
« Reply #13 on: 04 February 2010, 15:17 »
the last pic is the set im currently watching on ebay! :lipsrsealed: no one else bid, thanku please! :grin:

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Re: Recaro Seats...
« Reply #14 on: 08 February 2010, 21:13 »
I Bought Them.... :wink:

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Re: Recaro Seats...
« Reply #15 on: 09 February 2010, 12:59 »
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Re: Recaro Seats...
« Reply #16 on: 09 February 2010, 20:05 »

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Re: Recaro Seats...
« Reply #17 on: 09 February 2010, 20:20 »
For what its worth, those cream ones may be made by Recaro (like rubjonny said) but only in the sense that they are the same as any VW seat.... which are all made by Recaro. I'd 99% say those cream ones have been re-trimmed and the badges added at that time.
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Re: Recaro Seats...
« Reply #18 on: 09 February 2010, 20:53 »
For what its worth, those cream ones may be made by Recaro (like rubjonny said) but only in the sense that they are the same as any VW seat.... which are all made by Recaro. I'd 99% say those cream ones have been re-trimmed and the badges added at that time.

You may be right....

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Re: Recaro Seats...
« Reply #19 on: 10 February 2010, 10:31 »
make sure you look after the blue set :sad: :cry: abit out of my savings range in the end but fair play they look the biz! :afro: