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Originally posted by VWguy73
while everyone is on the topic of seats, i can get ahold of a full set (front and rear) seats from a 1996 GTI for $200 and id like to put them into my 1973 beetle but im not sure how to do so. is there anyway i can retro-fit my stock rails to the new seats? what is the best way to do this with the least amount of work?
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Originally posted by lightning bug
I believe all of the water-cooled seats are narrower than the Bug's. My friend mated Rabbit GTI (BTW I think are the most comfortable seats VW ever made) seats to his bug. I think he just welded up some brackets.
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Originally posted by Wally
Julian,
Use a Golf model seats, saw of the rear two paws, do the same with your original bug seats (post 1971 models anyway) and since the bug paws have a curve in them and the Golf seats don' t, just weld these bug paws to the GTI seats and everything fits, because Golf seats use the same rails at the front.
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Good info above, and here is a tech article:
http://w1.111.telia.com/~u11107929/html/new_seats.htm
EDIT: lightning bug, it's the bug seat tracks that are narrower than the golf ones.