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

[Obioban]

Stock black stitching seems like a good update.

If you look, I suspect there isn’t space under the seat to lower the rear hole. That said, most people recline WAY too much— I bet if you give it a week, you won’t even want to recline it more anymore.

Cobra has an adjustable lumbar pad.

[Pklauser]

Just installed one of these today and wanted to share the differences featured by a Nogaro ordered from HMS as of late 2024, and my impressions.



Stitching is all-black now, cushion pattern is parallel instead of the previous curves, and the logo has shrunk dramatically. I was told by HMS this was their doing, which is great because it means an off-the-shelf Nogaro now looks a lot better imo, while not needing the cost of a custom seat.

Sitting in the seat in the car, I'm finding that there's what I would describe as "negative" lumbar support. Playing with the seat in my house, I could mitigate this greatly by increasing the amount the seat is reclined. I know heinzboehmer has also tackled this with custom cushions. I'm still pondering my angle of attack here, but would it be ill-advised to potentially add another rear hole to the BK mounts, allowing for more lean-back?

[Obioban]

Obioban

Sir I just found your post on google about the cobra seats. Can you say these were the lowest seats you tried compared to pole position? I am tall and tired of my head hitting the headliner! Amazing looking car by the way..

thank you.

Seat height, for fixed back seats, generally depends more on the mounts than the seats.

If you really want to go as low as possible, the BK mounts that don't use sliders (direct to floor) are going to be your best bet. A good friend of mine is 7'1, and they allow him to sit upright in the car with a helmet.

[1284712]

Obioban

Sir I just found your post on google about the cobra seats. Can you say these were the lowest seats you tried compared to pole position? I am tall and tired of my head hitting the headliner! Amazing looking car by the way..

thank you.

[nachizl8]

Splice it with something like this

Thanks man, I was overthinking it. This worked perfectly well, loving the seats. Can’t wait to get some real seat time 😁

[OldRanger]

I have this exact same set up as DvSkD4 and just tried to wiring it up.

My seat harness only has one thick ground wire…could ground be another thick wire from the harness? Hope that makes sense lol

Splice it with something like this

[nachizl8]

Looking at your setup. You’ll need to connect the red/brown power terminal back to the main yellow connector. The connector circled in yellow looks like the wiring for the motor that i used. You can find the corresponding colors from my wiring. Only the two thick wires from the motor are used. The other two thinner yellow wires are for memory settings.

Your switch harness seems to have 5 wires. But the two brown look like ground. I would use the thickness of the wires to determine which ones to connect to the motor. I recall them being different thicknesses.



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I have this exact same set up as DvSkD4 and just tried to wiring it up.

My seat harness only has one thick ground wire while the E30 switch pigtail has two- just like in DvSkD4 picture. I connected the motor wires (2), power, and one ground (all my seat harness has) from the seat harness to the E30 switch. As suspected the seat only moves in one direction which would mean one ground is disconnected (the one I didn’t plug to the switch). But again, my seat harness only has one thick ground. Am I missing something? Could ground be another thick wire from the harness? Hope that makes sense lol

[OldRanger]

Seeing the BK issues worries me some. No one has installed them in the last 6 months though so I do not know if the QC has improved.

I have installed BK products in the last six months.

https://nam3forum.com/forums/forum/main-forum/e46-2001-2006/229250-2023-installation-supplement-cobra-nogaro-seats

[Cronenberged]

Seeing the BK issues worries me some. No one has installed them in the last 6 months though so I do not know if the QC has improved.

What issues with QC are seeing?

[Ubaderb]

That’s probably less hassle 😜

Seeing the BK issues worries me some. No one has installed them in the last 6 months though so I do not know if the QC has improved.

[Obioban]

Might be more of hassle than it's worth but has anyone used a seat to floor mount? Skipping the factory sliders. It's only ever going to be me driving and I do not use the backseat for anything. A set it and forget it might be useful.

That’s probably less hassle 😜

[Ubaderb]

Might be more of hassle than it's worth but has anyone used a seat to floor mount? Skipping the factory sliders. It's only ever going to be me driving and I do not use the backseat for anything. A set it and forget it might be useful.

[OldRanger]

Do the R-9225 Driver and Passenger Side Clip In Lap Belt Mounts only work with non M3 sliders? Would the door side mount, mount where the OE rail is if using M3 sliders? Also for the mount that would go near the transmission tunnel does anyone have a pick of that mounted?

I use the BK 9225 on M3 power sliders. I mentioned some challenges in the 2023 install update topic I started

[Cronenberged]

Do the R-9225 Driver and Passenger Side Clip In Lap Belt Mounts only work with non M3 sliders? Would the door side mount, mount where the OE rail is if using M3 sliders? Also for the mount that would go near the transmission tunnel does anyone have a pick of that mounted?

[Obioban]

I did have it out last year when I removed my nav wiring harness. It seemed seated to me and certainly looks like it’s back in place, but I have the passenger seat out right now and can easily check that side at least next time I work on the car. How much clearance do you have?

I’ll try to remember to take a picture tomorrow.