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Arthur Emerson wrote:

> Does anybody here have first-hand experience trying to get a factory A2
> seat to slide into the A3 rails?

> I just had the seat out of my GTI VR6, and it seems to be mounted the
> exact same way as my old 1988 GTI 16V’s seats.  (I can’t measure the A2′s
> rail widths any more, since I don’t have one.) I want to yank the ugly
> greens out of the GTI and put in a lower (maybe even hard) bucket for
> competition, as my helmet is in constant contact with the sunroof. Since
> it takes all of 15 seconds and no tools to remove the seats from the
> factory rails, I want to go down to the junk yard and get a cheap seat to
> strip the mounts from.  Being able to use a worn out A2′s seat hardware
> would be a big plus in the cost department, as not too many A3′s are being
> parted out yet locally…..

> -Arthur (1995 GTI VR6, black, 295 miles [again!], ugly green heated seats)

I measured up the A3 rails and they’re a touch wider than the A2 rails, though
I don’t remember by how much.  I know that you can separate the brackets from
the seats as I’ve seen a guy around here with seats out of a Jetta GTX in his
A3 Golf and my brother’s Scirocco has seats out of an 80 GTI.

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Chris Krepski
e-mail: ckrep…@chat.carleton.ca
WWW: http://chat.carleton.ca/~ckrepski