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Advan_01

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What kind of prices do Ideal Seat offer? Do they also stock Bride seats? I may buy a couple of f**ked ones and get them retrimmed, instead of buying brand new ones.
They only do Recaro, AFAIK. Start at around $1G. May not be cheap, but try getting a new genuine seat from Nissan and see what it costs you! The other beauty of Recaro (and other aftermarket) seats is that when you sell your car, you pull the seat and fit it to your next car. Then they become really inexpensive.

If you want your seats re-trimmed, there's a guy out in Ringwood, near the Autobarn store, does a good job. Can't recall his details right now.

Advan_01 - let your fingers do the walking.

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They only do Recaro, AFAIK. Start at around $1G. May not be cheap, but try getting a new genuine seat from Nissan and see what it costs you! The other beauty of Recaro (and other aftermarket) seats is that when you sell your car, you pull the seat and fit it to your next car. Then they become really inexpensive.

If you want your seats re-trimmed, there's a guy out in Ringwood, near the Autobarn store, does a good job. Can't recall his details right now.

Advan_01 - let your fingers do the walking.

Cheers thanks for that, I thought Ideal may have sold second hand Recaro's aswell. I'll definately keep that trimmer in mind, but it's a bit of a hike for me :lol:

I just need something that will keep my bum on the seat when I'm sliding :rolleyes:

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Cheers thanks for that, I thought Ideal may have sold second hand Recaro's aswell. I'll definately keep that trimmer in mind, but it's a bit of a hike for me :lol:

I just need something that will keep my bum on the seat when I'm sliding :)

I don't thikn ideal do recaro anymore. I recently tried to source new recaro seats - and found it very dificult.

Best to get 2nd hand ones and retrim them. I had the retrim done through blackman and sons in morabbin. was well done.

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I thought Ideal were the only supplier of genuine recaros in Australia?

98% sure they still do recaros. Wait, make that 100%, just read the article in this months HPI about the recaros in the R34 GTT.

www.idealseat.com.au

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