Simon
|
| posted on 13/1/03 at 03:00 PM |
|
|
Seats price (Cobra Roadster 7)
Chaps,
Just a quickie.
Anybody who bought these seats - what did you pay for them.
Just want to know if I paid too much/little(!?!), about the same.
ATB
Simon
|
|
|
|
|
robinbastd
|
| posted on 13/1/03 at 09:40 PM |
|
|
Simon,
Don't do this to yourself!
As sure as eggs is eggs,someone out there will have paid less than you.
Nice seats
Ian
|
|
|
Alan B
|
| posted on 13/1/03 at 09:45 PM |
|
|
I've seen them for a fiver...did you pay more?
|
|
|
Simon
|
| posted on 14/1/03 at 08:53 AM |
|
|
Chaps,
The reason I bought it up, was the wild variations in price I'd seen.
The first place quoted me just over £400. Yeah, don't think so.
Merlin (in their catalogue) quote £127.60 (seem a bargain!) (vinyl with piping) plus £22.95 for harness holes; being £150.55 PLUS VAT £176.90 plus
carriage (£15?!?!).
Cobra quoted me £189 each.
I got mine from Halfords for £159.
I thought that was reasonable.
I appreciate people might have got them cheaper at shows, but add on ticket cost, fuel, time etc, I don't reckon I did too bad!!
Unless, of course, Alan is being serious:-)
Cheers Chaps
Simon
|
|
|
kingr
|
| posted on 14/1/03 at 11:51 AM |
|
|
I didn't even know you could get them from halfords!! I'm guessing it was a special order?
Kingr
|
|
|
Simon
|
| posted on 14/1/03 at 12:45 PM |
|
|
Kingr
Halfords has, in some branches, a Ripspeed dept, which sells amongst lots of other things, Cobra and Corbeau seats.
Roadster 7 not one of their stock Cobra, but they can get them in for you. Took 5 days
ATB
Simon
|
|
|
Alan B
|
| posted on 14/1/03 at 12:55 PM |
|
|
quote:
Originally posted by Simon
......Unless, of course, Alan is being serious:-)....
Simon
Serious? moi?...Rarely
|
|
|
Jon Ison
|
| posted on 14/1/03 at 09:01 PM |
|
|
£240-ish from europaspares, Derby, long wait though, bought Feb last year
BRG, yellow piping, harness slots, name on head rests..
thought i better edit it, thats for the pair.....
[Edited on 14/1/03 by Jon Ison]
|
|
|
mdc124
|
| posted on 17/1/03 at 11:00 PM |
|
|
Can't find them less than £300 for the pair - anyone got any to sell?
|
|
|
Northy
|
| posted on 19/1/03 at 02:15 PM |
|
|
How wide are they? Can someone measure them for me please? I'm having a bitch of a time finding seats for the Avon
Graham
Website under construction. Help greatfully received as I don't really know what I'm doing! 
"If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?"
Built 2L 8 Valve Vx Powered Avon
|
|
|
Viper
|
| posted on 19/1/03 at 04:04 PM |
|
|
quote:
Originally posted by Northy
How wide are they? Can someone measure them for me please? I'm having a bitch of a time finding seats for the Avon
You have seen these seats in a an Avon..even though the mesurments supplied by cobra say they won't fit
|
|
|
Simon
|
| posted on 20/1/03 at 09:11 AM |
|
|
Graham,
The width of the seats according to Cobra's web site is 445mm.
The (seat) hole in my car is 465mm
They rub the sides of car.
Figure that out.
ATB
Simon
|
|
|
wicket
|
| posted on 20/1/03 at 12:49 PM |
|
|
Simon
I have Cobra Roadster 7 seats and they comfortablly fit a standard 'book' chassis. I think you will find they are 400mm wide.
Eric
|
|
|
wicket
|
| posted on 20/1/03 at 12:50 PM |
|
|
Simon
I have just checked on the Merlin MS site and they also say 400mm.
Eric
|
|
|
Simon
|
| posted on 20/1/03 at 01:28 PM |
|
|
Eric,
Cobra's website:
http://www.cobraseats.com/item.asp?pg=SP&id=ROAD
Like I said in my earlier post, the seats (which I have, and have fitted) touch the sides of car which is 465mm wide (internally per side).
Also, there is a 5cm difference between the two seats on the side supports (which I'll bring up with them sometime!)
ATB
Simon
|
|
|
Liam
|
| posted on 23/1/03 at 12:32 AM |
|
|
I think I paid somewhere over £300 with harness holes (including VAT and delivery etc) from Europa. Seems I could possibly have got them a bit
cheaper. I wanted black with black piping (cos I dont know what colour my car is gonna be yet) and I just got black with no piping! He he.
I've just measured them, and in their current sitting on the floor nice and settled state, they are as much as 490mm wide at the widest point (the
arse/thigh side supports on the base).
But these are just squishy cussions and they easily fit into a book chassis (which I believe is the same width as an Avon chassis) with negligable
squish. I was on the phone to Cobra themselves about these seats and they told me there isn't a Seven kit they dont fit. They fit Caterhams and
pre-lit Westfields which are both even narrower than a book Locost. It would be a snug squish to get them in one of those.
I dont know where the 400mm quote came from, but that would be a hell of a squish - if you have a reasonable arse/thighs you would feel the
deformation as compared to a non-squished seat (but that may just feel like more support). They WILL squish to as little as 400mm wide though at the
base if you really wanted. That would make the widest part the 'rib' supports, and these bits are NOT very squishy at all.
Liam
|
|
|
