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Fronts are in!

Old 03-05-2005, 12:00 PM
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Default Fronts are in!

The seats look awesome....I will order some grey floor mats....I put my black ones in, they don't look right.....then will do the door panels.

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Pretty sweet, Paul! Congrats. All the connections/adjustments work OK? Enjoy.
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Default It was plug and play but lost the seat memory

The passenger seat has the seat memory module underneath it.....it use to be the driver's seat.....

The driver's seat (which use to be the passenger seat) has a place to mount the module....

But I would have to swap the whole wiring harness in each of the seats to swap the module...so I opted to forget it.

All the electrical functions of the seats work including the headrests and heat....

The fronts are lighter than the old ones, can barely lift the original seats, these are just very heavy and probably lost 25 lbs on the rear upper seat. I would guess 50 lbs total???
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Default Worth the trade off, vs. having those seats, for sure.

Looks cool.
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Default Yup, a fair trade off indeed. Was the left-to-right swap because of more wear on the driver's?

I'll look forward to that writeup on audipages... ;-)

I take it that you had to swap the bases and the seat belt mounts? The backrests had to stay on the original sides because of the airbags, right?
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Gongrats!
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Absolutely stunning! Looks way better than the p-shop renditions ;-)
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I think the seats came from a "lefty". Right!?
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Default Left and right seats stayed as they were

But since they were from a RHD car, the seat memory module was mounted on the bottom of the right hand seat....but the wiring for my LHD has the harness coming out on the left....so it would of been a PITA to swap.

But other than that, they were drop in replacements.....just plug and play, seat belt bolted right up....left went to left, right went to right.
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Default In other words, Paul is driving his A8 from the passenger seat ;)

And his girlfriend is finally in the driver seat, like she always wanted.

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