Sagging driver's seat

[spongebob]

Originally Posted by CenterIsl

If it's both seats, then I bet you have this factory option:

XSU Lowered seats (-10mm)

I have that option on my car, and the seat bottoms look a lot like that. So, it's a "feature", not a "problem"! What they actually do is shave down the foam as they build the seats. Whether it's for taller drivers, or drivers wanting to lower their COG that extra bit, I dunno. The previous owner of my car was a national autocross competitor.

Never heard about xsu before but I sure miss it in my car.
Is it possible to rebuild a 00 standard seat to this option?.
XSU seems to show up in the spc at 2003

[Tandrup]

Originally Posted by spongebob

Never heard about xsu before but I sure miss it in my car.
Is it possible to rebuild a 00 standard seat to this option?.
XSU seems to show up in the spc at 2003

First of all: Heja Sverige (I am a Dane living in California - and now that we beat you in Handball, I like Swedes )

According to an auto upholstery guy that I spoke to because I am considering what do do with some cracked leather, the construction of the seats changed around 2002-2003. That could explain why it wasn't an option before '03.

What I would suggest is to take one of your seats out. If it is constructed like mine, then it would be really, really easy to perform the opposite operation of what I did, which would give you 2-3 cm of more depth. Removing the seat is super easy if you have a torx wrench.

Thanks,
Lars

[Emerald]

My seat looked the same. Pulled it out and found foam was pushed out. Also broken plastic cross support holding electric plug. Fixed plastic with zip ties and tape. Yeh it’s funky. Found a hole on each side of metal sides so made flexible high strength plastic for added support and to keep foam in place. Still has worn look with stretched leather but am going to try a little heat to message and reshape. Doubtful it will help. When taking seat out make sure have female torx think it’s 10mm. Needed all my strength. The plug was a pain until figured there’s a slide out latch then pretty easy.