Help! i need sport seat reference pictures.

[spanish pants]

Hello all,

I'm currently trying to fix my passenger side sport seat.
It seems that some goomba cut all the cables and removed the
two levers from the mechanism.
I have no idea what it looked like originally. If some kind
soul could take a picture or two of the upper part of the
seats cables and levers i would greatly appreciate it.

I'll try to post some pictures later of what it currently looks like.

[spanish pants]

Anyone?

[Cletonius]

I have some half disassembled sport seats in my storage unit. I'll see about snapping you a few pics when I'm out there this weekend.

[spanish pants]

I have some half disassembled sport seats in my storage unit. I'll see about snapping you a few pics when I'm out there this weekend.

Thanks! it would really help me out. I can´t put people in the back as it is right now, so i have to get these working again.

Just to show you the carnage on the passenger side .
Previous seat owner who i shall call "Bumb-face" decided to put coupe seats in his four door. His purpose was best served by cutting all the cables and drilling out the latches. I think the wheel on the left belongs on the driver side seat

This genius ass hat thought he could improve on BMW design.

[Cletonius]

Sounds like a winner. I'll see what I can do.

I love that tartan plaid pattern.

[spanish pants]

Ok, i found a picture of what i was looking for...on e-bay of all places.

Looked at a set of regular coupe seats and the lever mechanism is different, so i can only swap over the cables.

Looks like i need a stripped down passenger sport seatback. Anyone have one for sale?

[Semblance]

funny, that pic above (ebay) doesn't look right either. the shiny brass mech on the right should also have a lever extending out from the side of the seat, and a cable running down just like the black lever on the left. at least mine does. the pic you took of yours shows the driver's mech, which only has a lever on one side (the side facing the door). weird thing is it has the wheel on the left side, i guess because this was modded for a passenger seat.

so what you're missing is the black lever shown on the left side of the ebay pic plus a cable running down from it to the recline mech, but mount it on the right side. as long as you're ok only having a lever on one side. if you want both levers you need the mech in the ebay pic.

i'll try to take pics of mine this weekend.

[spanish pants]

funny, that pic above (ebay) doesn't look right either. the shiny brass mech on the right should also have a lever extending out from the side of the seat, and a cable running down just like the black lever on the left. at least mine does. the pic you took of yours shows the driver's mech, which only has a lever on one side (the side facing the door). weird thing is it has the wheel on the left side, i guess because this was modded for a passenger seat.

so what you're missing is the black lever shown on the left side of the ebay pic plus a cable running down from it to the recline mech, but mount it on the right side. as long as you're ok only having a lever on one side. if you want both levers you need the mech in the ebay pic.

i'll try to take pics of mine this weekend.

It look´s like the ebay picture is correct, as far as i can tell, but you´re right, it is missing the lever extension that screws in and the cable.

There is a naked sport seatback on ebay. The gentleman wants $45 for the seat and $60 for shipping to Europe. It looks like if i want to fix my seats i may have to bite it and buy it.


As for my existing seat. It have no idea why you would hack up a perfectly good seat to do this to it. Most of the regular coupe seat mechanism is usable in the sport seat, except that friggin brass latch.