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[Jase]

Take into account that I am over 40 and want to use my Mini on long journeys. What is the most comfortable new seat I can fit. I like the Cobra recliners but following on from another thread there seems to be issues with build quality. I wouldn't want to spend the biggets part of £1k on seats I need to have refurbished.

 

 

[Mini 360]

I love my Recaros in my integra.  Comfy (even on a long run), recliners and can be found in LOADs of performance Japanese cars with various patterns/material finishes. Integras had them in Black, Red or Yellow.  Half fabric/alcantara too.  Ones from a DC2 like mine will cost about £3-400.  

 

 

[vx220]

I have seen Elise seats in a mini, I had a VX220 and the seats were excellent (not all my mates agreed, however!)

[L400RAS]

I love my Recaros in my integra.  Comfy (even on a long run), recliners and can be found in LOADs of performance Japanese cars with various patterns/material finishes. Integras had them in Black, Red or Yellow.  Half fabric/alcantara too.  Ones from a DC2 like mine will cost about £3-400.  

 

 

 

These seem very high from runner to seat squab, which means if bolted on top / same level as the cross member it will be a weird driving position.  If you bolt these behind the cross member, that tends to be too far away from the wheel.

 

 I have recaros from an XR3i Turbo (similar to cossy seats), where the runner is bolted directly to the underside of the seat, with none of the plasticy side bits as shown above:

 

 

Edited by L400RAS, 09 January 2014 - 07:36 AM.

[mab01uk]

Recaros get my vote, mine came from a performance Ford.....depending on the car they originally come from the subframes can usually be modified and adapted to suit the Mini and reduced in height to sit closer to the floor or Mini's box section crossmember.

[Mini Manannán]

If I wasn't selling my Punto I'd have the seats straight in the Mini, they're very narrow and verrrry comfy so are prime candidates.

[AVV IT]

Why do you want aftermarket seats particularly? I've never found any aftermarket seats particularly comfortable, whereas the standard mini seats fitted into later models are great. You could probably pick up a set of late mini seats and recover them, for less than the cost of a set of new aftermarket ones.

[danie garry]

i had a set of '93 cooper seats in my mini and they were 1 of the more comfortable seats. iv seen prelude seats in a mini, scotty_1987's mini on here, theyre a comfy seat and look great too!

[rusty30]

MGZR seats. Fitted mine about a year ago - comfy all day long (I too am over 40!!)

[stealth05]

i am over 40 also and suffer from a bad back the only mini seats i find i can get on with are the one fitted to the spi think they are around 1994 to 1996 tried the latter ones and could not get on with them , that said i always fit recaro ones now and have no issues what so ever (with exception to mini knee lol) but get that which ever seats i fit 

 

 

 

here are a couple of my past minis with recaros

 

rover vitesse recaro in my 1989 mayfair growler

 

 

 

 

 

 

sierra cosworth cloth recaro in my 1989 mayfair sminty

 

 

 

 

sierra cosworth leather in my 1999 mpi toby

 

 

 

and my latest ride sierra cosworth leather recaro in my 1979 clubman estate

 

 

 

Edited by stealth05, 09 January 2014 - 05:15 PM.

[Jase]

So would these fit?

 

http://www.ebay.co.u...=item4ace322d41

 

Didn't think outside the box in terms of recovering etc :))

[Jase]

Looks a good site:

 

http://www.sportseat...ts/cat_177.html

[surfblue63]

Another vote for Mini seats here. I put some 1993 to 1996 Mini seats in my Sprite (it had the old smaller '80's type before). No back ache, no need to be a contortionist to avoid oversized side bolsters and they fit with no need for modification or new seat runners. 

 

[Jase]

Just coming back to this

[Jase]

Will these fit a Mini without too much stress? They look like the seats above but getting a pair of the Mini seats is like gold dust at the mo.

 

http://www.moss-euro...teIndexID=17663