The Official Mk6 Golf Seat Thread

[robby_jai]

mind u i should add those buggers cost me 5600 PER seat. so how badly do you want these recaros ??? personally i love them.. very comfy and they hold me in very well when i track my car!

mine is the leather, suede in the middle option!

[Corey_R]

been down this path before.. the only way VW will sell them to you via spare parts is to LITERALLY buy them as parts PIECE by PIECE and rebuild the seats yourself. that comes up to a grand total of 7k for the seats.

quite frankly VW were just being ridiculous.

i run recaro sportsters in mine and i like how they look and it looks very factory oem

Yeah - those were the ones that I linked to earlier. I agree that they're the closest you'll get to the OEM seats...

[gareth_oau]

I'd say the best way to pick up an aftermarket set is to cruise the online forums in UK and US and wait for a Golf R to be wrecked.

What about the seats in the Audi RS4, S3(option) or TTRS, they look very similar

[REXman]

I'd say the best way to pick up an aftermarket set is to cruise the online forums in UK and US and wait for a Golf R to be wrecked.

What about the seats in the Audi RS4, S3(option) or TTRS, they look very similar

Yeah I'd be good with a set of those. They look great. Where would one find a wrecker in Sydney for those? What would you expect to pay?

mind u i should add those buggers cost me 5600 PER seat. so how badly do you want these recaros ??? personally i love them.. very comfy and they hold me in very well when i track my car!

mine is the leather, suede in the middle option!

Those seats look even better than the stock OEM ones. Really very nice stuff thats for sure.

Yeah, I want them bad, but I could not part with $11200 for 2 seats.. Ouch. Thats too much for me man for what It is. If it was for Lambo seats in a Lambo Id say ok, but not for a 60-70k car. (Even a 100K car).

But you get what you pay for and they look amazing. I was sort of hoping around $7000 aftermarket.

[REXman]

Keeping in mind you can buy a small, whole vehicle for about $3000.

[robby_jai]

actually im getting stupid in my old age. they were actually 5600 for the two seats SORRY MY BAD

[REXman]

Thats a lot better and its something I am thinking about doing. I really like them.

Where do you get them and did you need seperate seat rails (or did they fit yours?) and/or was it all in the price?

Where did you get yours?

[dave_r]

actually im getting stupid in my old age. they were actually 5600 for the two seats SORRY MY BAD

LOL. Out of interest but Rexman won't mind me taking things off track.... how much was the Miltek exhaust and are you happy with it? They've got an R dev car and currently working on some bits.

[robby_jai]

Ideal seat Company is the authorised reseller of Recaro's in Australia. Every other reseller just get them off Ideal Seat Company.

Ideal Seat Company quite frankly are a complete bunch of tossers. not a pleasant experience dealing with these monkeys. Got messed around constantly quoting me different prices etc.

Their level of service is rubbish. Forget trying to get a discount off these guys. I'm really good at scamming a discount out of ANYTHING and have yet to be defeated in getting some form of discount until I cam across Ideal Seats. I am officially beaten.

They just seem to genuinely NOT want to do business with you. It was frustrating. You will need separate rails. It will not fit into the OEM rails. If you buy the seats with out the airbags you WILL need to sign a disclaimer acknowledging your car is no longer ADR compliant cos you removed the side airbags.. yadi yadi yada. And you will need to get some special resister kit crap to short out the warning light for the air bags etc.

Over all a painful process. But I do love the seats tho so it makes the pain worth while. My price 5600 includes fitting, rails and resistors so its not too bad

Thats a lot better and its something I am thinking about doing. I really like them.

Where do you get them and did you need seperate seat rails (or did they fit yours?) and/or was it all in the price?

Where did you get yours?

[robby_jai]

I quite like the miltek great little exhaust system. A complete bolt on system Sounds great and the power gains are actually quite decent. Ignoring the power figure from the motor magazine !! That was complete and utter load of rubbish

Jump on youtube and do a search for "Audi S3 Drag Motor Hot Tuner"

There's a video of my car on the drag strip listen to the exhaust sounds pretty decent and surprisingly its not as drony as i thought it would be considering i've got the non-resonated model

LOL. Out of interest but Rexman won't mind me taking things off track.... how much was the Miltek exhaust and are you happy with it? They've got an R dev car and currently working on some bits.

[dave_r]

Jump on youtube and do a search for "Audi S3 Drag Motor Hot Tuner"

Sounds good mate, thanks. If my R ever turns up, I'll probably consider the Miltek as well.

[Idealseat]

Ideal seat Company is the authorised reseller of Recaro's in Australia. Every other reseller just get them off Ideal Seat Company.

Ideal Seat Company quite frankly are a complete bunch of tossers. not a pleasant experience dealing with these monkeys. Got messed around constantly quoting me different prices etc.

Their level of service is rubbish. Forget trying to get a discount off these guys. I'm really good at scamming a discount out of ANYTHING and have yet to be defeated in getting some form of discount until I cam across Ideal Seats. I am officially beaten.

They just seem to genuinely NOT want to do business with you. It was frustrating. You will need separate rails. It will not fit into the OEM rails. If you buy the seats with out the airbags you WILL need to sign a disclaimer acknowledging your car is no longer ADR compliant cos you removed the side airbags.. yadi yadi yada. And you will need to get some special resister kit crap to short out the warning light for the air bags etc.

Over all a painful process. But I do love the seats tho so it makes the pain worth while. My price 5600 includes fitting, rails and resistors so its not too bad

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but I just wanted to clarify a couple of your items in your post.

I am genuinely sorry that you didnt have a pleasant time dealing with Idealseat Company.

I do remember your initial enquiry which I handled it and then passed you onto one of our dealers in Sydney.

Therefore you didn't have the seat fitted by Idealseat Company.

In regards to discounts, we are the Australian Importer so we are unable to give discounts. If we gave everyone a discount, our dealers would become disgruntled and we would not have a dealer network. We always quote SRP over the phone and pass you onto a dealer for final costs including fitting costs etc. So the price shouldn't vary greatly.

We use new base frames and runners so the existing bolt holes are used in your vehicle. We encourage our customers to keep their OEM seats in storage so when they do update their vehicle, they put their OEM seats back in and take their RECARO's to their new car. If you chose to adapt from the OEM frames, you will sit higher in the vehicle and in Sports orientated cars, sitting lower is usually always requested, hence the new base frame option.

In regards to the disclaimer, our dealer requests this for legal reasons, just to cover himself to say that you are disabling the air bag. The resistor should have been provided and organised by the dealer. By using the resistor, you will not have a continuous airbag warning light showing.

Everything aside, we are glad to hear that you do love the seats!

[walbjj]

i thought idealseat handled that well.
i too have had dealings with them. ive got teh recaro sr3 seats in my honda. i needed a side bolster and a plastic trim on the side to replace one that was worn out and cracked. idealseat provided a price, but i managed to source it from the UK for substantially less for both items.
besides that, they seemed like any other business.

[Big Yellow]

cant you just disable the airbag light via vagcom??

[PeDiES]

cant you just disable the airbag light via vagcom??

you can buy airbag simulators that trick the module into thinking its still there and therefor the other airbags still work