Are comfort seats worth anything?

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clarko74
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Sat Feb 26, 2011 8:49 pm

I'm having a clear out of my garage and have a pair of houndstooth comfort seats that were in my chromie before I changed them for sports ones.

They're in very good condition but I'm assuming they're pretty worthless as no one seems to want comfort seats? If they're not worth much I might just strip the material from them and save it for spare for my sports seats.

Is there anything else on them that's worth keeping? Headrests? Are they the same as either rear or sports headrests?
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Sat Feb 26, 2011 8:51 pm

Head rests are the same for sports seats and rear seats.
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Sat Feb 26, 2011 8:52 pm

Are comfort seats worth anything?


Not unless you're a Big Fat American..... :D
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Sat Feb 26, 2011 8:59 pm

The hinge parts are the same as sport seats,the runners also are worth keeping.

In another 20 years we will have OEM addicts hunting for good comfort seats because their car was supplied with them from the factory....may just be worthwhile sticking them in a big binliner and storing in your loft!




(on this principle I have a pair of tatty Mk2 Jaguar seats and a delaminating dash top squirrelled away!)
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Sat Feb 26, 2011 9:09 pm

Save the fabric / headrests, scrap the rest.
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Sat Feb 26, 2011 9:19 pm

Horde them until until they become valuble pal... E30's are iconic... Limited good ones left... and interiors will disappear with them as they end up in the scrap yard... They'll be a demand for them one day and if they're mint, i'd keep em.

Like malc says, bag em and get them in the corner of the loft.
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Sat Feb 26, 2011 11:46 pm

Are pre-facelift seats a direct fit for a facelift?
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Sun Feb 27, 2011 1:17 am

Kemix wrote:Are pre-facelift seats a direct fit for a facelift?
Front seats from pretty much any 70s/80/early 90s BMW will go in there. They've been using the same bolt spacing for decades. I've even seen E46 seats in an E30, though they look totally wrong. Rear seats, I think, need to be E30 and are body-shape specific, i.e. 2-door, 4-door, touring etc... :)
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Sun Feb 27, 2011 9:20 am

I've had a few pm's about these so it seems they might be worth something after all.

I've decided that I'm going to strip them down, keep the fabric and sell a few of the other bits.
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