am i right in thinking that my04 wrx saloons do not have the hump in between your legs on the front seats but my05 models do?

 

No hump in my MY05 WRX

Mines a UK one though - have heard that the EU ones without the airbags or summat have a hump..

<edit> Knew I'd seen it somewhere - here you go bud

http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthread.php?t=403547

 

The thing is in the UK impreza 2005 brochure there is an image of a saloon wrx and the seats have the hump where but the image of the wrx wagon below do not have the hump. im confused

 

I suspect it's a picture they use in the EU brochures as well...
Mine does not have a hump and there was no option of having a hump

quote from that thread from a guy who has an EU car from alliance..

 

ah well. I want mine to have a hump

 

I think I'd agree - not bothered about the side airbags tbh and would be nice to have the more supportive Sti shape seats.
...plus the hump would be good to rest the bollocks on

 

exactly. imports have the seats i want then?

 

Looks that way - try calling Alliance or Litchfields or the like and see if you can specify them as an option on an EU import and let us know...

 

I have recently test driven a uk spec WRX 05 and it did not have a bump in the seat.

Intend purchasing an import WRX 'UK' spec from alliance which does have the bump.

The question is how can an EU import be classed as UK spec if it doesn't have the same seats i.e with airbag. Will this create a problem with insurers.

I'm sure when I sat in a UK spec 04 it had bumps

and so the debate it goes on

 

Norwich Union never asked if the car was UK spec when I insured mine. On their website it says they are happy to insure imports except for certain vehicles like hummers etc.

Most insurers only seem to ask if the car is modified and the word UK spec or UK car dont get mentioned.

Here's the link to the NU website:
http://www.norwichunion.com/car-insurance/filter.htm

Then click on: If your car is imported certain conditions apply


The 04UK car I test drove had no bumps.

 

My 53 plate MY03 Euro WRX has no hump!! These are known as sports seats as opposed to bucket seats...don't know wether mine have airbags or not.

When I bought the car, bucket seats were an optional extra...according to Well Lane were I bought the car from.

 

Howy,
I have an 04 WRX wagon and the seats had NO hump. There do have airbags. They are also very uncomfortable on any distance. Took 'em out and put in STI seats. These have hump, no airbag and very comfortable. They are same length as WRX (i.e. a bit short), slightly narrower and MUCH more supportive.
Cheers
Pete

 

Did you get the sti seats from scoob dealer? if not anyone know how much just the 2 front seats are?

 

Prob best bet would be to go for a full Sti Interior otherwise your gonna end up with the Blue Alcantara front seats only which might look a bit odd, seen some on here recently or ebay..

If anyone knows where you can get the bucket Sti seats in black with the same cloth as the My05 WRX I would be interested too

 

I bought a set of Sti Seats Fronts/Backs from JB Motorsport ( link below ) to fit in to my MY04 WRX. My car is WR Blue so the Sti interior matches well. It only took about an hour to change out the seats, left the original door cards in place. Did think of fitting MY02 seats, but as the car was new didn't want to fit 2nd hand seats. The Sti seats from JB Motorsport were from a brand new car being stripped for rallying, and found Jon Barnes to be a very helpful guy.

Changed the seats for the same reason, that we uncomfortable and unsupportive compared to my MY02 Bugeye seats.

Also try ebay, there is usually a selection on there for sale.

The only new style Sti seats in black that I can think of would be from the WR1, but these would be very hard to come across.

http://www.jbmotorsport.co.uk/productssimple4.html

 

not sure if its been mentioned but the sti seats don't have side airbags, which could casue an insurance issue if you fit them to a WRX

 

And what about WRX bucket seats?? Don't think they have airbags either...

 

As far as I know there are two options- you need to specify which one you want explicitly when ordering the car: Airbag or non airbag equipped seats. The ones with the airbags (sports seats) are less supportive than the ones that do without them, which are the "bucket" variety. At least, that's what I recall from the brouchure.

NS04

 

my03 wrx seats have side bags

 

I informed my insurance company of the changes made including the fact that the new seats did not have airbags fitted, they were fine with this and there was no additional cost, unlike when I upgraded to 18" Prodrive Alloys.

 

fair play then

 

how did you go about in disconnecting the airbag cable? did it cause any problems?

i need to know as i am about to take out my airbagged sports seat and put in some aftermarket recaro's

cheers.

 

Just unplugged the wires!! No probs for me - some recommend disconnecting the battery first...

 

surely by just disconnecting the cable will cause the airbag warning light to come on. anyway around this?

 

I've not bothered...yet...

There are two ways - either use a 2.2 ohm resistor or apparently you can reset it via the OBD port (think its called Subaru Select??)

Be interested to know how to do this...

James

 

Yep, there are 2 seat options : sport (with ******** rest ) and bucket. My MY02 has sport seats, think they were the standard item (EU import) and they don't have airbags.

 

Almost mate, the ******** rest is on the buckets - the sports seats have airbags...

 

the task of remving seats is easy and easy done. disconnected the battery causing alarm to sound for 10 rounds

disconnected airbag cables, reconnected battery after half hour, no problems with tell tale light.

replugged the seats back in with the same process, no problems there either.

all i need now is some recaro seat frames. any got any spare?