Review: Cobra Nogaro seats (uniquely street friendly fixed back bucket seat)

[SQ13]

That is unfortunate .. nothing about it is hard, but sourcing the connectors and making a custom harness requires some creativity and research. Not most peoples' strong suit when they can just complain to customer service.

I’m sure I could figure it out, and if I had questions I would ask you guys, not HMS. No worries tho, I never used the seat heaters when I had the stock seats…just wanted the seat heater buttons to be functional lol.

[t44tq]

Pretty much both rails but best bet is to find someone parting out a car locally or junk yard

Obioban
Follow up question- how did you do the wiring? The sliders I got have everything, but no wiring, so I need plugs and pigtails at the very least.

The B-K brackets have the wiring pinout for the E30 switch, but the instructions are completely unclear about the actual seat motors- labeled I, II, III and IV.

Looks like I need to get an E30 pigtail for the window switch and pigtails for the two connectors on the power seat motor in order to make this work. Any advice on sources? I'll be searching on Google, Ebay, etc.

[repoman89]

Who here is responsible for this?! Show thyself!! 😂

”It became a customer service nightmare, wrong connectors, things were different or didn’t work. Hours on the phone, diagnosing and helping someone who was no idea about working on electrical systems to get it going. Elements became hard to get. It wasn’t worth the time and angry customers.

You can certainly add it yourself as the cushions just Velcro’s out and you can add them underneath and run the wire down and out the front of the seat.”

That is unfortunate .. nothing about it is hard, but sourcing the connectors and making a custom harness requires some creativity and research. Not most peoples' strong suit when they can just complain to customer service.

[SQ13]

Who here is responsible for this?! Show thyself!! 😂

”It became a customer service nightmare, wrong connectors, things were different or didn’t work. Hours on the phone, diagnosing and helping someone who was no idea about working on electrical systems to get it going. Elements became hard to get. It wasn’t worth the time and angry customers.

You can certainly add it yourself as the cushions just Velcro’s out and you can add them underneath and run the wire down and out the front of the seat.”

[SQ13]

Hmm, not sure why Cobra can’t offer that anymore. I’ll let y’all know what he says.

[repoman89]

yep, I happen to have my passenger seat next to me at the moment:

[Obioban]

Working on getting a quote from HMS, and this is what they said about seat heaters. How was Cobra able to offer heaters to y’all previously??

”Seat heaters are not really an option with the circuit as the hole for the sub would become useless. All we have is a generic seat heater and don’t offer any OEM options anymore.”

Cobra added an update extra hole on the seat to pass the wiring for the seat heater (and the lumbar air line).

[SQ13]

Working on getting a quote from HMS, and this is what they said about seat heaters. How was Cobra able to offer heaters to y’all previously??

”Seat heaters are not really an option with the circuit as the hole for the sub would become useless. All we have is a generic seat heater and don’t offer any OEM options anymore.”

[Obioban]

I found a junkyard selling a pair of sedan sliders, hoping that this will work out perfectly. Too bad I can't just re-use my existing sliders, but if that solves the lap belt issue, then that will make it much easier.

You can reuse your existing sliders-- the outside lapbelt just bolts to the bolt where the lower portion of the shoulder harness attaches to the floor. The downside is the belt doesn't move with the seat if you do that, but you can do it if you want to reuse your coupe sliders.

[t44tq]

Pretty much both rails but best bet is to find someone parting out a car locally or junk yard

I found a junkyard selling a pair of sedan sliders, hoping that this will work out perfectly. Too bad I can't just re-use my existing sliders, but if that solves the lap belt issue, then that will make it much easier.

[lvm3sm46]

Pretty much both rails but best bet is to find someone parting out a car locally or junk yard

[t44tq]

The seat belt receptacle is attached to the stock sliders.

As for the outer lap belt attachment, if you use sedan sliders it will have an attachment point for the outer lap belt

Do you know how much of the stock slider assembly you use? I'm looking on ebay for sedan sliders and it's a bunch of parts on there that I'm sure I'm throwing out.

[fattycharged]

That would drive me crazy if they didn’t line it up


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[lvm3sm46]

The seat belt receptacle is attached to the stock sliders.

As for the outer lap belt attachment, if you use sedan sliders it will have an attachment point for the outer lap belt

[t44tq]

Obioban and anyone else who have installed seats with the B-K brackets- can you explain how exactly the stock seat belt receptacle attaches? I'm guessing that it is part of the stock sliders, so has nothing to do with the brackets, but I just need confimation, as I haven't taken the seats out of my car yet.

Also, has anyone besides me been stupid enough to try and install aftermarket seats into a cabriolet? I was going to go Schroth Quick-Fit Pro, but there is no way to attach the outer lap belt, as the stock setup is entirely contained in the seat for a cabriolet. Although it's just a mounting point, so maybe there is a way to mount the belt on the bracket or the slider?