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My choice wasn't about looking cool, its was about ditching that heavy uncomfortable POS seat with 2 out of 3 motors that had failed and intermittent switch failure. Frustrating to say the least. When I looked closer I could see that some one had already had a go at the wiring and changed motors once before.

No one would sell just the switch, nothing at any importer I could find, ebay or yahoo Japan, only full seats.

With this as an example of what can happen to these seats after 107,000km, and with 2nd hand replacement at ~400-500, the Recaro I purchased seemed like an easy choice to me.

Like I said, mine has position sensor, not air bag.

Agreed, manual controls are much more reliable, and no seat airbags to blow my balls off.

The stock seats are rather shiteful imo, you sit on top of them and need to brace with your knees around corners. The Bride Euro2's are unbelievable. ;)

as far as i know, all coupe V35s have dual front,curtain, and side(seat) airbags.so yes changing the drivers seat will mean you lose the side airbag,however if done correctly your other airbags should function correctly.

passive safety would still be much better than for example any previous model skyline.

for anyone much over 190cm tall there is a definite argument for changing to a lower sports seat,however be warned,some will be too small-i tried out a bride zetaIII and it was too tight a fit!

I'm 191cm or slightly more and in my R33 S2 have had R33 GTR, R34 GTR & Bride Euro II seats. The GTR seats never quite felt 100% right and didn't really drop me down that much. I bought some Bride Euro II seats and some welds in the front failed 2 times (yes they were 100% genuine Bride). I got sick of it and bought a set of Recaro SR7 seats.. they are the best of the lot and Ideal Seat made me a custom rail which is as low and as far back as you can get it. It is great now and I just wish I had done it from the start. The Recaro range is also good as Ideal Seat can source seats from both Japan and Germany. They tend to get more from Germany from memory as they are a larger build like most of us here. I can definitely recommend Ideal Seat.

I'm getting a V36 shortly and doubt that I will change from the factory seats but I figure I would use the SR7's if I did. I won't ever be touching a Bride seat again, the build quality was just not up to scratch as far as I'm concerned. I may have had a bad seat or 2 but I am doubtful of that.

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