Recaro interior for my e30M3

[Old_Skool_Bmw 0]

As the title says, im putting a full recaro interior into my e30 M3..

I've just had the first pictures of the Recaro seats sent to me today. They are being shipped from Germany by next week and will be at my work in 2-3 weeks time (Which works well as my e30 m3 should be finally ready, with rebuilt motor in 3-4weeks)

Will also have Recaro adaptor brackets which will bolt onto the original e30M3 floor mounts.

Front seats are Recaro Sr's - custom order (part of s14.net gb)

Back seats are matching (just the fabric, i'll be stretching them onto the original seat foam)

Heres the first pictures. (More to come once I get them into NZ).

Let me know what you think.

Cheers,

Laurence.

[Cale 36]

Those are wicked. Good decision Laurence. Can't wait to see them in the car.

Edited November 8, 2007 by Quailboy

[Old_Skool_Bmw 0]

Those are wicked. Good decision Laurence. Can't wait to see them in the car.

Thanks,

I wanted to keep the seats pretty plain but chose to have the ///M stripes added as a little something extra

And the Leather/alcantara will look really nice.. just have to take good care of it though!!

Planning on adding the EVO red seatbelts to finish off the interior.. Promise I will get more pics up once the seats arrive & when my M3 turns up i'll get pics of everything.

Cheers,

Laurence.

Edited November 12, 2007 by Old_Skool_Bmw

[drifty325i 0]

Very very nice! quite similar to mine apart from mine are all leather

[Nobimmer 694]

Wholly dayam.HAWT.

[Assault 3]

Very Niiice!

And believe me, these seats are very comfortable indeed, especially for the amount of support they give.

[Yuen 16]

They look great, the stripes coupled with the red seatbelts will be hotness.

[Old_Skool_Bmw 0]

They look great, the stripes coupled with the red seatbelts will be hotness.

Yep

Can't wait to get them into the car.

Hopefully with the bracket set-up they won't touck the doors, as I have heard of some installs where the seats have rubbed against the doors on hard cornering.

Laurence.

[PBOY23 0]

envy those seats! nice man

[Guest Rick James]

Tell me that's alcantara and not suede.

How much does the rear cover run? I like.

[Old_Skool_Bmw 0]

Tell me that's alcantara and not suede.

How much does the rear cover run? I like.

Haha, good spotting!! Yes it's alcantara not suede.. Was a long day at the office last week.

Rear seat cover was around $1500 NZD but it's a bit hard to estimate as I did the whole lot as a package..

Laurence.

[Old_Skool_Bmw 0]

Called NZPost today with my traking numbers & i can expect the seats to arrive in New Zealand by the end of the week :D .

BTW if anyone else wants a similar set of RECARO seats done the company who did mine have 2 sets left at a pretty good price. You can have just the front seats, or, front & matching rear seats. PM me if you're keen and i can pass details on. If you're worried about quality then just click on the pics on the first post Their craftmanship is A+.

Cheers,

Laurence.

Edited November 19, 2007 by Old_Skool_Bmw

[Yuen 16]

Even I'm excited... Early Christmas huh? They got here really quick...

[bmw.maniac 1]

What are you doing with your standard m3 interior?

[Old_Skool_Bmw 0]

What are you doing with your standard m3 interior?

Front seats will probably be up for sale as soon as I get the new ones installed. I think the rear seats I'm buying are just the fabric so i might need to use the original seat to stretch the new leather over. (not too sure on that until I actually see the rear seats).

Cheers,

Laurence.

[bmw.maniac 1]

Front seats will probably be up for sale as soon as I get the new ones installed. I think the rear seats I'm buying are just the fabric so i might need to use the original seat to stretch the new leather over. (not too sure on that until I actually see the rear seats).

Cheers,

Laurence.

Can you PM me if you decide to sell? Cheers

[Old_Skool_Bmw 0]

Can you PM me if you decide to sell? Cheers

I'll definately be selling the seats.. As soon as my car arrives in Wellington i'll have the seats pulled out..

PM me your details and we can go from there.

Cheers,

Laurence.

[Old_Skool_Bmw 0]

UPDATE:

Just had an update by NZPost.. the seats have arrived into NZ (Auckland international) this morning and are going through sorting to come to Wellington. Lol, why did it have to happen on a Friday.. haha now I'll have to wait until Monday for them to be delivered to me.

I can expect the seats to be delivered Monday afternoon/Tuesday morning..

I'll get some pics up once they arrive.

It's like Christmas coming early!! Can't wait to see what they look like in the flesh.

LOL, at least my new work seat will be comfortable for a few days (until I take them home anyways haha).

Laurence.

Edited November 23, 2007 by Old_Skool_Bmw

[Old_Skool_Bmw 0]

My seats arrived today, package in boxes.. looking G.O.O.D!!!

Packaging was done really well, craftmanship is pretty damn nice too !!!!!

Will have some pictures up in the next few days, forgot to bring the digi camera in to work this morning.

:) :D

Laurence.

[jpp 0]

Few days = over.

[Old_Skool_Bmw 0]

LOL, my bad.. I found the camera but someone had scrweed the rechargable batteries.. hmm...

Have some new ones charging up tonight.. Pics will DEFINATELY be on here tomorrow

Cheers,

Laurence.

[Nobimmer 694]

Damn straight

[Old_Skool_Bmw 0]

So i finally got time to take pictures of the seats after they turned up from Germany,

the build quality is A+ pretty happy with them, can't wait to get everything into the car in the next month or so..

More pics to come once the M3 is up in Welly

Front seat

Close-up of the ///M stripes - (hope this helps you out Ollie)

Stitching - (nice and clean)

Back of the seat

Underneath springs

Cheers,

Laurence

[greenday-rulz21 6]

Now they are some bloody nice seats mate! Suede and Leather, the perfect combination.

Looks fantastic!