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Old May 5, 2007 | 04:01 PM
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Recaro Seats

My wife loves my GLI seats and wishes her MINI had something similar. I found these VW OEM Recaros for sale today and was wondering if anybody knew if it could be adapted to a MINI:



http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=2985030
 
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Old May 5, 2007 | 11:02 PM
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Probably need rails and sliders, but I think they should work. Hell for that matter you can probably find a local welder to make some custom adapter brackets. A buddy of mine did this to fit some Mk2 Recaros in his Mk3 GTI. Good luck
 
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Old May 6, 2007 | 05:54 AM
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the common problem with most OEM VW recaro's is that the base is not a normal recaro base. You woudl most likely have to have a custom base welded up to the recaro seat..
 
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Old May 6, 2007 | 11:42 AM
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Yeah, I pulled my GLI seat out yesterday and did a comparison. The brackets are a lot different than the MINIs. Plus i realized that those seats don't go forward all the way so if I did do this it would have to be for some that go into a GTI
 
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