Seats

bigdog · Postby **bigdog** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:21 pm

Andy has moved on to RX8 land now, and I think he sold the seat separately when he sold the car. If you are of smaller stature the Bride would be ideal - it looked superb and was very comfortable even with me in it :shock:

marcusus · Postby **marcusus** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 1:20 pm

The issue (well, not really an issue, but rather not suiting my requirements) with Andy's Bride was that it was a fixed back. Although it was probably quite comfortable (I only ever saw it, never actually sat in it that I remember) I'd still prefer to have the reclining functionality.

RG.net · Postby **RG.net** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 8:57 pm

fastfreddygassit wrote:
MXHEVN wrote:i actually had an intresting idea (havent gotten around to doing it yet)

but the idea is that you find a set (or one) of suzuki swift gti seats, they are pretty much like mini wrx seats, and they are reclinable. i dont know how much they are worth or how much work is needed to get them to fit into the mx-5 but they are pretty comfy for what they are.

stuff all support in them compared to the aftermarket seats in the previous posts. The side bolsters are flimsy. But the seats look the goods! (My brother is a gti freak)

of course, but they are not an aftermarket seat, so you would expect them to hug you like santa on christmas day. they are better then the stockies, which is where it counts. ask your brother how much these seats go for

marcusus · Postby **marcusus** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 11:08 pm

If I remember correctly, your seat was great for racing, but I get the feeling it wouldn't be so much fun as a daily drive seat.

Anyway, I've decided to source myself some Mazdaspeed Type Fs from Japan. We'll see how it all pans out soon enough

Benny · Postby **Benny** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:37 pm

marcusus wrote:If I remember correctly, your seat was great for racing, but I get the feeling it wouldn't be so much fun as a daily drive seat.

Anyway, I've decided to source myself some Mazdaspeed Type Fs from Japan. We'll see how it all pans out soon enough

Please let me know how you go Marcusus.
I'm also interested in getting a set.

marcusus · Postby **marcusus** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:32 pm

Benny wrote:Please let me know how you go Marcusus.
I'm also interested in getting a set.

You bet. Not like it's hard for us to catch each other during lunch :mrgreen:

Hopefully it'll be here sooner rather than later, but when it arrives, I'll be sure to let you know. We can even go for a quick lunch time spin. Especially since I'm getting a pair.

Benny · Postby **Benny** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:20 pm

I'm looking forward to it Marcusus.

philz · Postby **philz** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:38 pm

There is a trader on astinagt that can get Mazdaspeed Type-F, and I believe he already has two sets in australia, that are available for purchase of around $1000-$1200ish.

In black leather and with gradation "Mazdaspeed" in the middle

Looks quite hot.

bruce · Postby **bruce** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 3:13 pm

I'd be cpmcerned about counterfeit seats. No idea how you could tell the difference? Maybe google it?

philz · Postby **philz** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 4:31 pm

If you mean counterfeit seats of Mazdaspeed seats, unlikely.

They are from Japan's Yahoo Auction and are used, you can't buy them brand new anyway.

marcusus · Postby **marcusus** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 11:50 pm

philz wrote:There is a trader on astinagt that can get Mazdaspeed Type-F, and I believe he already has two sets in australia, that are available for purchase of around $1000-$1200ish.

In black leather and with gradation "Mazdaspeed" in the middle

Looks quite hot.

Yeah, that's the guy I've gone through to get mine. Although he has a couple of sets already here in Aus, I decided on getting a set that went fresh on the auctions. Although the photos on the AstinaGT site of the seats already in Aus are much more comprehensive, the couple of photos I saw for the seats I went for seemed to imply that those seats were in much better condition.

When they arrive at the trader's place, I'll ask him to do a bit of a compare for me against his current seats (if they haven't been bought yet) to see what the true state of them is.

Postby **rupewrecht** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 3:11 pm

will you now? :lol:

They're MS Sports, not Type-Fs. The Type-Fs are the single color suede ones (unless they're the RX-8 version in black/grey mesh).

And i don't think counterfeits even exist - there isn't enough of a demand for the originals to warrant someone copying them.

Benny · Postby **Benny** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 3:12 pm

What's AstinaGt's web address?

philz · Postby **philz** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 3:24 pm

Alternative pm rupewrecht who just posted before you or go to here..

http://www.astinagt.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=43

marcusus · Postby **marcusus** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 10:13 pm

rupewrecht wrote:will you now?

Well I was, but since you've read the post, I don't need to. You should now do it of your own accord

rupewrecht wrote:They're MS Sports, not Type-Fs. The Type-Fs are the single color suede ones (unless they're the RX-8 version in black/grey mesh).

Close enough. Thing is, if the current trim is in rather crap nick, I can wait it out a bit and get them retrimmed the way I've been semi discussing in this thread. But from the looks of the photos they should be pretty reasonable, so hopefully that's the case.