Mine is not so well (see Wanted post from me) so I'm looking to replace it.

Are all Octy mk1 seats interchangeable?

Regards, Mike

golf, bora

Mine is not so well (see Wanted post from me) so I'm looking to replace it.

Are all Octy mk1 seats interchangeable?

Regards, Mike

Some have airbags in the seat, you couldn't swap out a seat with an airbag for one without unless you get the airbag controller recoded using VCDS. I assume that as your car is a 90bhp diesel it is probably an ambiente which I don't think has seat airbags so shouldn't be an issue.

Mine is an 03 Ambiente 90 diesel so no CANBUS, no airbags.

From before, does that mean any non-airbag seat from a Golf IV chassis will fit straight in? Octy 1, Golf 4, Bora, Seat??

Regards, Mike

Yep. Any with airbags will fit too. Might be best to actually disable the airbags though, rather than just leave them dormant.

Seat Toledo's were often fitted with nice seats that'll drop right in.

Not long left - look nice and clean...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VW-MK4-GOLF-INTERIOR-SEATS-BLACK-3-DOOR-/321070248706?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item4ac1473302

Not long left - look nice and clean...

http://www.ebay.co.u...=item4ac1473302

I have a feeling that the back seats won't be a perfect fit into an estate.

Not sure...

Was the op not just after fronts??

Our driver's seat seemed soft and not as supportive as we'd like so I got the local main dealer to replace the seat squab foam. It made a difference but not as much as we'd hoped for.

I have a feeling that the back seats won't be a perfect fit into an estate.

With 3 door interiors, there is a tiny gap at the sides of the rear seats. Not enough to worry about. However, much nicer interiors than this can be had.

The Estates and Saloons interiors are the same, however, the 3 door and 5 door formats vary ever so slightly. Example, S3 interior in my Octavia...

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Be careful if you are tall I have mk4 recaro seats in mine, and the seats don't go back as far.

Our driver's seat seemed soft and not as supportive as we'd like so I got the local main dealer to replace the seat squab foam. It made a difference but not as much as we'd hoped for.

Thanks for this, as replacing the seat squab was another route I had been considering.

Regards, Mike

Afternoon all.

First, many thanks for the advice & ideas you have provided. It has helped me muchly in sorting out what I can/should do.

For the benefit of someone coming late to this thread, my aim is to replace my driver's seat as the squab is getting soft & as I'm the short, fat & hairy type it's been getting me at the back of my knees. My car is an 03 Octy tdi 90 Estate.

To summarise what I believe I've learned (corrections please):

1. Any seats from a Golf mk4 platform will fit

2. All front seats are directly exchangeable

3. Rear seats for the 4-door saloon & estate are exchangeable.

4. Rear seats from a 3 door saloon can be used in the 4-door/estate but there will be a small gap between the outer edges of the seat mouldings and the car skin. I'm assuming that 4-door/estate seats will not fit the 3-door as they will be slightly too wide.

5. Candidate donor vehicles include Octy mk1, Golf mk4, Seat leon/toledo mk1, Bora mk??. Unsure about Audis.

6. Airbags or not don't matter but strongly advisable to disable the airbags if your car doesn't support them.

7. If you are tall check you will have enough legroom with a Recaro-type seat before committing yourself.

8. Replacing the seat squab to improve comfort has produced unsatisfying results with little or no perceived improvement.

My car is used for general running about between fettling houses (ours and my folks'), plus we have a border collie-type dog who often has mucky paws and sheds hair almost faster than she can grow it Current seats are grey cloth and seem to shed contaminents reasonably effectively.

Just FYI I like to admire other people's nice cars but I just want mine to work reliably and effectively.

I spent some time yesterday going cross-eyed looking at fleabay offerings for possible seats. I wasn't too bothered about a perfect match so I didn't need a full interior with door cards etc. I found _loads_ of possible solutions and would have gone for some very nice looking Seat seats except that they were in London - 450 mile round trip puts the cost up somewhat :(

I've ended up taking a punt at a set of black cloth Golf mk4 seats which cost me the princely sum of 5 squid. I'll be collecting them sometime this week and will plan to use them either as the answer or at least a cheap way of finding out.

Again, many thanks for the help and do please confirm/fix my notes above in the hope they may be of help to someone else in the future.

BTW Are we now talking ancient history or is it worth me doing a howto guide when I change them out?

Regards, Mike

Chorley Lancashire.

You've jumped already, or I'd have suggested getting either Elegance seats (fronts have height adjustors) or sports seats from a vRS.

You've jumped already, or I'd have suggested getting either Elegance seats (fronts have height adjustors) or sports seats from a vRS.

Thanks Ken. I'm treating these Golf seats purely as a toe-in-the-water so I'll keep your suggestions in mind when I do go out for my "final solution"

Regards, Mike

vRS seats still aren't up to much in the way of support, hence why many of us have ripped them out. Standard MkIV Golf seats aren't particularly good either. Audi A3 seats fit just fine, and my S3 recaro's don't seem to have an issue with legroom on the drivers side, but peculiarly the passenger side doesn't seem to go back as far...

vRS seats still aren't up to much in the way of support, hence why many of us have ripped them out. Standard MkIV Golf seats aren't particularly good either. Audi A3 seats fit just fine, and my S3 recaro's don't seem to have an issue with legroom on the drivers side, but peculiarly the passenger side doesn't seem to go back as far...

For what definition of "support"? I'll cheerfully agree that vRS side bolsters aren't up to much for track work, but I read Mike's OP as meaning that he found the Classic/Ambiante seats set him too low in the car, so I was suggesting the models which have height-adjustable seats.

The squabs are made of chocolate. They collapse far too easily in far too short a space of time. My drivers seat was absolutely cream crackered by the time I bought it at 49,000 miles (squab was cut through by the metal base and the bottom seat cover had come unstitched which basically meant that everytime you sat in it, the cover stitching was being pulled down hard onto the edge of the metal base, due to the squab being collapsed). A colleague of mine went through two seats in his company Superb in less than 100,000 miles too (under warranty, no less). Skoda seats are pretty crap compared to the competition. I've never owned anything half as naff in my 20 years of driving.

The squabs are made of chocolate. They collapse far too easily in far too short a space of time. My drivers seat was absolutely cream crackered by the time I bought it at 49,000 miles (squab was cut through by the metal base and the bottom seat cover had come unstitched which basically meant that everytime you sat in it, the cover stitching was being pulled down hard onto the edge of the metal base, due to the squab being collapsed). A colleague of mine went through two seats in his company Superb in less than 100,000 miles too (under warranty, no less). Skoda seats are pretty crap compared to the competition. I've never owned anything half as naff in my 20 years of driving.

Meanwhile my Elegance has done 110_000 and the interior is "as new" apart from one small worn patch in the driver's footwell carpet (and not near where I rest my heels either).

Meanwhile my Elegance has done 110_000 and the interior is "as new" apart from one small worn patch in the driver's footwell carpet (and not near where I rest my heels either).

Same here, but at 209k. I have just about worn a hole in my Octy drivers mat (mine caused by my foot though), but otherwise the interior is pretty much perfect. I am quite light, so maybe that as helped the seat last.