Trog's Mk3 8v - Parts from America!

[Seanl]

Well done for sorting it, gonna look wicked with the rest of your interior too! 

[trog_nfs]

Well done for sorting it, gonna look wicked with the rest of your interior too! 

Cheers dude. Not a job I would want to repeat any time soon. Swapping a passenger seat onto a drivers base would be easy if the fabric is the same, but changing the foam is a b!tch. Stupid metal hooks.

Just want to find a heated seat loom and switch, but they go for like £100 on fleabay! For some frickin wires!

[stow1985]

Well done for sorting it, gonna look wicked with the rest of your interior too! 

Cheers dude. Not a job I would want to repeat any time soon. Swapping a passenger seat onto a drivers base would be easy if the fabric is the same, but changing the foam is a b!tch. Stupid metal hooks.

Just want to find a heated seat loom and switch, but they go for like £100 on fleabay! For some frickin wires!

Like this!

[thai-wronghorse]

Good work, this is a job I need to undertake at some point on the leather interior I've recently aquired.
Like yours my drivers bolster has just started to flatten out and needs the foam swapping before the leather gets ruined completely.
Was it an absolute nightmare to do, how long did it take you roughly?

[trog_nfs]

I did it in a morning. Didn't take as long as I though, as most of it is pretty easy, just the wires bit.

Getting the base off the seat is easy, only a couple of metal tabs and a metal coathanger essentially.

For the wire hooks, I used long nose pliers and strong cable. For the front to back wire hooks I threaded the cable through the hook and pulled, worked really well.

It was the two side-to-side hooks that were the worst. My advice is get the wire roughly in place in the groove of the foam, then try man-beast it into place.

I got a good idea how to do it from this thread, and by doing the old passenger seat first.
http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=65964.0

[thai-wronghorse]

Perfect, I think I've read that thread before actually. Cheers.

[trog_nfs]

Well my leather cleaner arrived. I think I smell like leather more than the seat though.

New pics though
 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm also looking for a new steering wheel. I think the lupo one is for me.
 

Here it is in a mk3.
 
Opinions?
Cheers

[thai-wronghorse]

I'm still indecided on the fitment of Lupo and MK4 steering wheels, I don't think i like having the chrome VW badge staring me in the face.

[trog_nfs]

I was looking for a leather mk3 wheel to start with, but they seem to be a bit rare and v expensive whereas the lupo ones don't. Could always get a sticker for the badge if it got annoying?

[Seanl]

I've never been keen on em either tbh. I think standard with airbag suits it, although they are quite large.