Folding carbon race seats

[grover]

I have these 'specced' in my new 997 turbo s and they are fantastic.

However one of the side bolsters rubs against the centre console so squeaks.

The OPC has done a temporary fix with some tape which sort of works and they are happy to fix the problem so its back in next week. Its been my fault its taken so long to get the car to them and I am confident that they wil stick with it, changing seats if they have to.

My question is though how can then fix it. If you can move the seats a couple of millimeters away from the console towards the car door then the issue will be fixed, but I imagine you can't.

My friends GTS has the same seats but you can see a gap between the bolster and the console, on mine you can't even when no one is in it.

Any thoughts?

 

[Lancerlot]

I would think they will try to remount the seat, possibly by slotting its fixing brackets.

I had a similar problem with the back of my seat rubbing on the roll cage when I had the GT2.

In this case, I used the felt side of some black adhesive Velcro. This did the trick very well indeed. []

Regards,

Clive.

 

[grover]

Thats what has helped, some velcro type tape but it isnt the long term solution

 

[rholyoake]

Not much consolation, but definitely don't have this problem on mine. Meaning that it must be fixable surely.

 

[Lancerlot]

Maybe has something to do with how far back the driver adjusts the seat.

Regards,

Clive.

 

[rholyoake]

Having a look at the seats closely, there's around a 5 mm gap all the way between seat and centre console on both sides (i.e there's no rubbing of the seats if you're either danny devitio or jonathan ross).

 

[grover]

car back from the dealer at hatfield and problem seems cured but taking the seats out and remounting them with weight in them as they are bolted tight, they then stay away from the console.....happy again now