I got some upholstery that was similar enough to the A pillars, ripped  the factory stuff off, and glued the new stuff on so I get an exact match from the pod to the pillar. 

tear off the old factory fabric


just need to glue on the pod.  The fabric on the pod and pillar are the same, just a difference in lighting.


and access from the back


It's installed in the car, but I need to re-do the pod fabric  since I smudged some glue on the fabric and wrinkled it up a little


I got some s4 seats, but needed to do a little modifying to get a power passenger seat in place of the existing manual.

I got some of these badass nut-rivet thingies to go in the mounting holes where the power seat rails bolt down to


pull some wires and cut off the white manual slider mount that's sticking up out of the carpet


These are the new/old seats...... anyone want a nice set of leather a4 seats?

Seats are installed.... but again, no in car pics

I could maybe use them's.

Hot!

I want to see it with the seats installed. That would have been one of my next mods to that car. The other seats just didn't cut it.

Hey Sully-van,

You got a step by step pictorial of how you installed them seats?

I'm gonna have a similar type project on my hands pretty soon:



I guess I won't be needing your old ones after all. 

oh yeah... and instructions


most everything's there from the factory, you just need to do a little work to complete the install......

For the hardware:

You need to cut the carpet away where the two power seat legs stick out (you can see where to cut in my picture)

A hole is already there where the bolt should thread into, it's just not threaded

Get them there nutserts and stick 'em in the hole.  In retrospect, 1/4" fit the hole perfectly, but I think I would go for the 5/8" size nutsert even though I would have had to drill out a much larger hole.  I can justify the smaller bolt size by looking at the one single peg used in the manual seats, but if I were to do it fresh... bigger is better.  If you want to be really gangster like Joel with the drivers seat install.... he cut the top off, welded a nut or something on underneath, and re-welded the top back on.

cut off the manual seat thingy that sticks up, and make a mental note to get a piece of black plastic that can cover the hole in the carpet (but you never look under your seat, so you'll probably forget to do this)


For electrical:
I had a power drivers seat (that joel installed, not from the factory)..... so all of the factory wiring was on that side.  I made a makeshift wiring harness using bullet and blade connectors to get power over to the passenger side.  Instead of pulling the whole interior apart, I routed the wiring (with the factory wiring harness) under the doorsill area back to under the rear seat, and then back up the other side.

I didn't have factory side airbags..... so I didn't have to deal with hooking the seat airbags up.

if you don't have any power at all going to your old seats.......
heaters...... sorry... I'm guessing a factory harness from the junkyard would be easiest
just for motors.......  take apart the side of the dash to get below the fusebox.... there's a +12v peg there


So seats are up for grab  (brett??  anyone else)

p.s.

anyone know what paint runs for some little pieces of tupperware?

I ground the welds off as clean as I could, then pried the whole piece off with a giant ass 4' screwdriver ..... then painted it with black epoxy paint (so it blends in with the carpet until I get a plastic cover, which may be a factory item... maybe?)

your car is newer.... so there's probably a better chance that the wiring connectors are the same for them airbags