CSL Part Availability?

[Loaded_csl]

CSL seats

I know that the last two seats were long gone for a new M4 Demo Car for an American Tuner who is mainly involved with BMWs.

It is such a waste for these parts and not 'fair' for us to go for wrong cars...

:banghead:

[erdingtonjohn]

I struggled to get a back box last year through synter. Don't know what availability is like now. Took around 6 weeks in the end.

[NZ_M3]

I know that the last two seats were long gone for a new M4 Demo Car for an American Tuner who is mainly involved with BMWs.

It is such a waste for these parts and not 'fair' for us to go for wrong cars...

:banghead:

Don't believe everything you read on US forums. The seats are still available just very low stock. The reason "complete" seats might be NLA is because the rails were NLA a couple of years back so BMW can no longer provide complete seats all made up ready to bolt in.

You also sort of can't expect a manufacturer to continue to produce special parts for something more than a decade old, plus a lot of the parts were made under licence by third party suppliers and they probably no longer hold the relevant contract to produce it. So short of BMW placing a large order it'll probably not happen.

All the seats were made in 2003, and as far as I am aware Die Wethje aka Recaro never made another batch for BMW since then. Unless there's a huge demand for the seats I doubt they'd ever be put back into production.

I might start an NLA parts thread if there's demand for it? But it is concerning that many key components of this car is going into NLA or reaching that stage. It is almost to a point where it's as if BMW want to make sure these cars will no longer be able to be repaired with replacement parts. Very sad indeed!!