Advice on Recaro Seats for R56 S

[ELFMAN]

Hi there elfman thought you said there was going to be no mods for the r56?I new it wouldn.t be long before you got started new seats m8 what will be next?clap:

Hold your horses there Davie Boy! I'm just looking into the seats at the moment, if I can work something out spec and price-wise , I'll give it a go , but sticking to what I said before, I'm still not looking at any 'performance' upgrades at any time in the near future!

Thanks for the info folks

[ELFMAN]

That sounds about right, but add airbag option and runner adaptors and your looking £800ish i guess.

Many dealers will knock 15% -20% off retail meaning similar price in leather

I remember an earlier post on here or on MINI2 that showed a dealer down south that were doing them for less tha £1600 IIRC.

Thanks for the useful info Japper, appreciate it

[AndyP & Lenore]

I really fancy a set also, still trying to convince Andrew though.

L

[zimbo]

I'd LOVE a set of these in Alcantara, but the prices are just plain rediculous...

I assume MINI (or JCW department at least) think that mini owners who fancy these seats are on their way to becoming millionaires or something so would easily be able to afford these!!



I wonder if our resident sponsors would be able to maybe do a "Group buy deal" on JCW seats if there was enough of us wanting them?

[RyanK]

I wonder if our resident sponsors would be able to maybe do a "Group buy deal" on JCW seats if there was enough of us wanting them?

Zimbo

[antihero3000]

Zimbo

Must resist.....

[Forbes]

I wonder if our resident sponsors would be able to maybe do a "Group buy deal" on JCW seats if there was enough of us wanting them?

I did have other things planned, but if they are a good price...

[ELFMAN]

Got prices from Douglas Park MINI... Fitted (airbagged) - Cloth Seats £2,100.00, Alcantara & Leather £2,200.00. No prices available for full leather. Now can somebody tell me why there's only £100.00 difference between the 'basic' Cloth and the Alcantara/Leather combo? I'd been thinking that Cloth would be a fair bit cheaper. Anyway that's all academic as there is NO WAY I'm shelling out two grand for seats (unless Kylie's in one of 'em!). I knew they were pricey for the alcantara - but £2K+ for CLOTH SEATS? Shocking. I could buy a decent classic Mini or an old VW Beetle to play with for that sort of money. No chance.

I also asked that if I could source the exact same Recaros (Sportster CS) elsewhere, would Douglas Park fit them and do the Airbag Coding thing...? NOPE. They're 'not allowed' because they're not MINI parts.... Hmmmm. who'd have thought an embroidered 'JCW' logo would change the technical spec of a Recaro seat? The actual reason is that if they did that, nobody would buy the JCW version.

I've still to check out prices outside MINI for the equivalent Recaro, and find out if they'd be able to sort the airbag issue - DP told me nobody else would be able to because of the specialist equipment involved. I'd probably go for plain black cloth non-airbagged ones - but even with the Airbag option I'd be most surprised if it came to anything like £2100.00 fitted - they'd never sell any! I'd even put up with an Airbag Warning Light if I knew I wasn't being skinned for my hard-earned in the process.

I agree with Zimbo, IMHO it's a prime example of over-complication and over-pricing. They can knock £2K+ off my car because of the recession, but still charge 'Boom-Time' money for the good seats. The fact that even the factory JCW R56 still doesn't come with Recaros as standard says it all... Kerr-Chiiiiiiiiing£££££! If they were doing them for £1300.00 - £1500.00 I would probably have gone for it, but at £2K+ I think they're taking us for a ride. Ah well, their loss - a sale at £1500.00 Vs no sale? You work out the economics of that one BMW/MINI.

[MINI William]

The Leather seats are 2100 (just checked the JCW Book with pricelist).But Im posative that you can not get these seats in Cloth only full leather and alcantara / leather is a vailable according to the book and the MINI website.But if youve been told you can get them in cloth they must be new

[ELFMAN]

Cheers William - that's thrown some light on the subject. I reckon they've quoted me the LEATHER seats price as opposed to CLOTH which MINI don't do... that would explain why there's so little difference between the Leather/Alcantara and their supposed 'Cloth' quote. I thought it was really stange that there was such a small price difference (£100) between 'basic' and 'FAB'. Maybe you should get a job at Douglas Park.

Recaro do the CS in Cloth (it's 'Nardo/Artista' in Black - lovely) as I have a pic of it from an American Seat-Seller site, but MINI maybe just don't do cloth in the JCW stylee. I mean it seems fairly obvious now - DP said they didn't have a price for 'Full Leather', when I think they should've said they didn't have a price for 'Cloth'. Oh well. If you're ever selling your seats give me a shout.... I'll maybe give 'Drivers' in Glasgow a call to see what they say. Thanks for the info!