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Bugeye WRX seats in a BG legacy


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Awesome, thanks.

I like the bolsters on them, my car was owned by a... Large-ish person before and my 135 lb self is sliding all over the seat when i go around corners :)

 

You can do like I did when swapping my cloth cover over a heated (originally leather) seat, and buy some 1" high density foam (Jo Ann Fabrics sells it, it's green and around $18 a yard for 1") and some 2" to 3" HDF. I spray tacked the 1" (after cutting with a razor knife to fit) in the seat centers, then used 3" (3" was a tight fit, but the comfort added was worth it) on the bolsters top and bottom. I'm 165 pounds and the seat went from being basically flat and compressed, to being like a new slipper. If the WRX seats ever get that way, you can do the same thing, but I'd stick with the 1" HDF cut into 3 sections per seat half, so 1 section in the center, then 1 section per bolster side. Use spray tack on both the seat's foam mold and the foam cushion. It'll set and should stay put while you reattach the hog rings.

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Got a pair of seats, put the drivers side in tonight. All went smoothly apart from having to use my origional seat belt buckle (and being too tired to notice until after the seat was bolted in place) and the WRX seat has an airbag inside it. I had to cut before the connector, so i simply covered and isolated the two wires.

(If anyone can tell me how to disconnect that connector, i would really appreciate it! I always have bad luck with connectors and that one has me stumped.)

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What connector are you referring to? Be very careful with anything dealing with the airbags, whether they have power to them or not. I'm not sure how much of a cavity they occupy or if they are in a large recess or not. If they don't occupy a large chunk of the seat, it'd probably behoove you to remove them from the seat so as to avoid any unintentional deployment- nothing worse than getting t-boned, rolling over a few times, coming to a rest, then having a rogue bag deploy a killing you. You'd probably drop 8-10 pounds per seat plus you could sell them. Depending on the space they occupy and where it's located, you can probably stuff the hole with high density foam and never be the wiser. The fabric that covers the seat actually hides a lot of ugliness.

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