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Hi fellas,

I recently bought a good pair of R33 S3 GTR seats for my GTS-T and thought it was direct bolt on but it doesn't seem that way. By this I mean, they came with rails already intact, I just unbolted my GTS-T seats (also with rails intact) and tried to bolt the GTR seats directly into the holes but noticed that the front ones are off the spot, i.e. the GTR ones seem to be smaller and just don't seem to bolt onto the sockets of the car as they're a bit further away from the bolt area of the seats.

So I thought about it and was wondering if this is the right way of doing or should I use the existing GTS-T rails and bolt the GTR seats on them? If this is the case - how the heck do I remove the seats to bolt on to existing GTS-T rails? Thought I'll try here first for some help if not, I'll think of so way to modify the GTR seat rails to fit but would be more of a hassle.

Please share with me your experiences and what you did?

Many thanks,

SM

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They'll fit.

When the rails aren't bolted to the floor (like when the seats are our of the car) if you use the seat adjuster lever, the seat rail will close in on itself, just like it would when you slide your seat back/forward in the car, the difference being that in the car, one section of the rail remains stationary, allowing the seat to move forward/back.

With the rails not bolted to the ground, both parts of the rail will move, the result being what you're experiencing now, the bolt holes not lining up to the chassis holes.

The fix is simple, turn the seat on its side/back so that you can see the rail. From there, you'll need to adjust the rail until they're in the same spot on both sides (count the holes on the rail and make sure the 'teeth' are in the same holes on either side). Once you've done that, put the seats back into the car, and you should find the holes will line up just as your stock seats did.

If you used the seat lever on your stock seats with them out of the car, then tried to re-fit them, they'd look like they weren't going to fit either until you fixed them as above.

Hopefully that made sense...Of course if the rails have been changed from the standard, the above won't apply.

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They'll fit.

When the rails aren't bolted to the floor (like when the seats are our of the car) if you use the seat adjuster lever, the seat rail will close in on itself, just like it would when you slide your seat back/forward in the car, the difference being that in the car, one section of the rail remains stationary, allowing the seat to move forward/back.

With the rails not bolted to the ground, both parts of the rail will move, the result being what you're experiencing now, the bolt holes not lining up to the chassis holes.

The fix is simple, turn the seat on its side/back so that you can see the rail. From there, you'll need to adjust the rail until they're in the same spot on both sides (count the holes on the rail and make sure the 'teeth' are in the same holes on either side). Once you've done that, put the seats back into the car, and you should find the holes will line up just as your stock seats did.

If you used the seat lever on your stock seats with them out of the car, then tried to re-fit them, they'd look like they weren't going to fit either until you fixed them as above.

Hopefully that made sense...Of course if the rails have been changed from the standard, the above won't apply.

Hi mate, many thanks...I think I know what you mean...I will try to push the rails out further a bit as the shape of the railing is perfect just not the length - so I think what you said makes a lot of sense. I will give it another go tomorrow morning as suggested. I'm going to take a day off work to do this...love the GTR seats...I gotta say, no racing seats is more comfortable imo than the stock GTR ones.

I will report back tomorrow so that anyone else with this issue can also learn of this...many thanks!

Regards,

SM

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