New Seats

Postby **Okibi** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:48 am

Well it seems to be the season for getting new seats, particularly for us NB8A owners.

Here's our new seats, thanks to Chris at MX-5 Racing.

NB8A - SE - NB8A with Max's covers.

I seem to sit a fraction higher, perhaps my fat ass hasn't worn the foam down like the old seat. I might end up cutting some foam out.

It definitely wraps around my back a bit better. It's weird being able to rest my head back against the seat, i'm too tall to do that in the seats of our other cars.

jules · Postby **jules** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 11:19 am

What was the problem with the tasty leather numbers?

Jules

Fuzzlet · Postby **Fuzzlet** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:53 pm

They're comfy hey. Same seats as my SE, and I love the way they hug one more

Postby **Okibi** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:42 pm

jules wrote:What was the problem with the tasty leather numbers?

Jules

I'm too tall for them, i'd rather have a taller seat between my head and the roll bar.

Fuzzlet · Postby **Fuzzlet** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:32 pm

Okibi wrote:
jules wrote:What was the problem with the tasty leather numbers?

Jules

I'm too tall for them, i'd rather have a taller seat between my head and the roll bar.

Yep...My head used to hit the BD bar on large bumps....now I just hit the roof :lol:

Mr_Q · Postby **Mr_Q** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:53 pm

Fuzzlet wrote:...now I just hit the roof

There's an easy solution to that ...

marcusus · Postby **marcusus** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 11:10 pm

I tried out the SE seats in Steve's (tk421) car recently. A huge improvement over the stock NB8A's. The side bolstering is very handy when cornering hard, but of course the clincher is the extra lumbar padding. Does wonders. Felt much nicer sitting in those seats than the normal ones.

Height wise it felt fairly similar.

I'd love a set of SE seats. My only problem is that I want leather, but in my own custom colours, which means a lot of money, unless I just do one or the other.

AB7 · Postby **AB7** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:27 pm

Is SE seats basically NB8B seats with different trim?

RG.net · Postby **RG.net** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:37 pm

get cobra monaco's

Fatty · Postby **Fatty** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:41 pm

marcusus wrote:I'd love a set of SE seats. My only problem is that I want leather, but in my own custom colours, which means a lot of money, unless I just do one or the other.

check ebay. there is a guy who sells leather (well, some sort of synthetic leather) covers . you remove the cloth and replace them , i guess you need to sew them on or something, but they fit nice and snug from the pics i've seen. he sells them for all mx5 models and also has heaps of colour options. he did a group buy on this forum recently, you could do a search. seems like there were many happy customers .

Postby **Okibi** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:25 pm

Fatty wrote:check ebay. there is a guy who sells leather (well, some sort of synthetic leather) covers . you remove the cloth and replace them... .

Thats max who's on this forum. Those black and gray covers are from his business.

marcusus · Postby **marcusus** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:27 pm

Fatty wrote:check ebay. there is a guy who sells leather (well, some sort of synthetic leather) covers . you remove the cloth and replace them , i guess you need to sew them on or something, but they fit nice and snug from the pics i've seen. he sells them for all mx5 models and also has heaps of colour options. he did a group buy on this forum recently, you could do a search. seems like there were many happy customers .

Yeah, I remember that thread/guy. The stuff he sells is leatherette. I have no idea what that is, but he was saying it was synthetic leather, which would lead me to believe it could be the fake stuff that's in taxi's.

I'd much prefer real leather, hence why I haven't gone that option. Not that I have anything against the product, and by the looks of things it looks like good quality. Just that I would rather the proper thing. And while I'm at it, I can get a steering wheel retrim too :mrgreen:

Postby **Okibi** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:31 pm

Sounds like NSW club members can get a GREAT deal on leather covers.

Postby **Okibi** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 2:17 am

Another issue that I hadn't expected.

Because the seat is a bit higher and is wider around my shoulders it's now harder to reach behind me, flick the soft top over the brown davis and catch it with my other hand.