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Offline AcidicDavey

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Re: Mk4 recaros
« Reply #20 on: 10 September 2012, 00:56 »
Those annie half leathers look like they cost more than all 3 of my cars  :grin:
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Re: Mk4 recaros
« Reply #21 on: 10 September 2012, 05:47 »
Bordering impossible I'm guessing.

I believe so.
It was hard to get in 2001/2002 when I had the interior done.
I couldn't get the bare cloth, so I had to buy 2 front seat backrest and 2 front seat base seat covers to get the material...and then we found out the Mk4 Recaros are wider than the Mk3 cloth, so I had to buy another 2 front seat base covers to get the correct width of cloth.

It took some time to get, back then.


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Re: Mk4 recaros
« Reply #22 on: 10 September 2012, 05:52 »
You need a set a anni seats to murder and some leather mk4 recaros.

They weren't Mk4 leather Recaros!
They were nearly new red/black cloth, heated, side airbag seats bought from MJ Interiors, that were trimmed by MJ in Anni cloth/leather.
He re-covered the front seats in new Anni cloth/leather, unstitched the Anni cloth on the rears, half covered the rear seats in leather and used the original cloth, fitted the rear headrests and modified the front runners to fit a Mk3.

The wiring is a mix of a Corrado VR6 heated seat loom (relays now live under the rear seat), a Mk3 heated seat switch and Mk4 seat elements, with the pins swapped to make it all work.

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Re: Mk4 recaros
« Reply #23 on: 10 September 2012, 05:56 »
If u dinny mind me askin wats the price for gettin summit like that done?

Jeez...it was 10 years ago...

I think I paid £1000 for the Mk4 Recaros
Another £400-500 for all the new Anni seat covers.
MJ Interiors was approx £1700 for all their work IIRC (including supplying/fitting the rear head rests)
The Corrado VR6 loom was robbed from the Corrado I was breaking...a new switch from VW and a few hours labour for a VW Tech mate to get the heating elements all working.

To be honest...I'd rather not add it all up.
It was a long time ago...  :evil:

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