Jetta Rear Bench Conversion + Door Cards

[RaKeR]

Hi guys,

Another question among the many!

I have a donor 3-door Golf 2 gti and am wanting to put the rear bench and front seats into my 5 door Jetta.  I understand the fronts will fit straight in - but has anybody had experience of fitting the rear bench to the Jetta at all?  I did raise this in another post, and somebody did suggest taking the covers off and putting them on instead of the entire bench and back rest itself?

Also, as the door cards won't fit, is there any threads avaialble regards custom doorcards?

Help!

Si.

[[han]]

i haven't seen anything about the door cards, im guessing you can retrim them yourself, if u find a suitable material, but that would mean doing all doorcards  from jetta, and poss seats to match... if thats the look you want?!

[RaKeR]

Well - I'm more likely to pick a colour out of the seats and match it that way if I do a custom job myself.

[[han]]

that could be your best bet! someone else may know more than i do... i have limited knowledge.. mines limited to pretty colours and nailvarnish....

[Agreeable Slick]

Rear bench will just screw in where the golf one was before.

As for doorcards if you take your old ones along to a re-trimmer and give them a fabric to match they might be able to find the right pattern. Either that or just ask them to replace the trim with the ones off the other door cards.

[RaKeR]

cheers guys [and gal?!]

but slick, the rear bench on the jet seems totally different to the golf - there's a metal backplate for a start - and the seat doesn't operate in the same way?

can't re-trim from 3 door door cards as there's not enough fabric on the 3 door to re-cover the 5-door cards!

[Agreeable Slick]

ah yeah missed about the door change. Opps.  In that case re-trimmer it is.

Rear bench will fit in the same way as the rear bench came out, they fix in in the same way but cos the gti seats will have a split they look different. There is also no support apart from each other where the split is so there is no other fixing required other than the same way you took them out but in reverse.

[RaKeR]

Am I missing something here?!  The Gti Mark 2 donor seats INTO the Jetta - that's what I want to do?!

 

[Agreeable Slick]

 :embarassed: edited appropriately

[RaKeR]

Now I'm just confused!   

So if take out the Jet's rear bench, I can basically screw the Gti bench straight back in it's place?  But because there is a split, there might be no support?  I guess I'll have to try it out, 'cos the jet's rear bench is actually clipped into place - it doesn't have the same fittings as the gti - no pins to pull up to release the seat down - it is fixed on the metal plate in the boot using 4 clips! 

My head . . . . .