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04-14-2004, 09:24 PM
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APC Seats in a Mustang?
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Long Lost Adm1n
Join Date: Jul 2003
City: Northern Virginia
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Ok guys... I know how we all hate APC... but these new seats look damn nice...
For $267 a pair and $88 shipping that's a hard deal to miss... Now these come with universal sliders... but I've always heard they won't work on Mustangs. Well.. there must be some way of getting them to fit. How would one get APC seats into a Mustang? |
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04-14-2004, 09:44 PM
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sʞɔns ʇuǝɹq
Join Date: May 2003
City: Macon
State: Georgia
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swap out the tracks (use the original mustang tracks on the apc seats)
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04-14-2004, 10:00 PM
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Long Lost Adm1n
Join Date: Jul 2003
City: Northern Virginia
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Does that work? That's all that's required???  |
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04-14-2004, 10:11 PM
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Needs turbo.
Join Date: Nov 2003
City: Mt. Juliet
State: Tennessee
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Mostly likely you might be able to drill new holes in the original track. Just buy em and make em fit in there. |
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04-14-2004, 10:17 PM
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Long Lost Adm1n
Join Date: Jul 2003
City: Northern Virginia
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Ok. What do you think about that color in my grey/charcoal interior stang? Or should I go with red/black? |
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04-14-2004, 10:24 PM
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Long Lost Adm1n
Join Date: Jul 2003
City: Northern Virginia
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I'm thinking these just cause the ones in the first pic I posted look more like black/silver and altho I have some silver in my interior... it's not enough to blend in good enuff... But how about this... black seude and black vinyl..
This one just looks weird... maybe because of the lighting? Hmm...
I could always go red/black too but I tried to get away from such extremes... altho just seats isn't a prob...
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04-14-2004, 10:25 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2003
City: Palm Springs
State: California
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C.R.A.P.
And also, you will lose your power seating (if applicable).
And they may not fit anyway. Depends on how wide the base of the seat is. My brackets were specifically made for the mustang and they wouldn't line up with the stock seats. Brackets that are designed for the car just have the correct bolt pattern/dimensions on the floor. |
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04-14-2004, 10:30 PM
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Long Lost Adm1n
Join Date: Jul 2003
City: Northern Virginia
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Ya... I have power seating on my driver's side... but I never adjust it anyways...
I need a seat that'll grip me well on corners. I'm at the point now that my car handles real well when cornering, but my stock seats aren't keeping me in position! The newer model of APC seats look a lot more grippy than the first line that came out, and I'm really considering them, especially since a lot of ppl besides the one's who replied here, have basically told me to just redrill the brackets that they come with. |
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04-14-2004, 10:31 PM
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I liek gramer
Join Date: Jan 2004
City: Birmingham
State: Alabama
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The red and black seat looks the best, followed by the black black
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04-14-2004, 10:36 PM
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Long Lost Adm1n
Join Date: Jul 2003
City: Northern Virginia
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You think red/black would go good with my interior? Or would I be ricing it up again?! lol |
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04-14-2004, 10:46 PM
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Eyes So Tight I Pass For An Asian
Join Date: May 2003
City: Huntsville
State: Alabama
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04-14-2004, 10:48 PM
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Long Lost Adm1n
Join Date: Jul 2003
City: Northern Virginia
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What the hell do I buy then? I guess I stick with seat covers cause I can't afford much more than $350 a pair... |
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04-14-2004, 10:53 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2003
City: Palm Springs
State: California
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People who tell you you can redrill the brackets are probably the same people that said the Corbeau seats would fit in my car, no problem.
#A: They didn't fit the stock brackets.
#B: I even tried drilling the brackets, just like you, but unfortunately the seat belt holder didn't clear the seat.
#C: The specially designed brackets (+$70, each) cleared the seat, and lined up perfect, but the seat belt hold pushed into the transmission hump, making the seats not fit.
So I spent about 3 hours pounding on the seat brackets with a sledgehammer to bend the bracket a little bit. Worked fine.
Your mileage may vary. I just won't trust anybody who hasn't installed seats in a mustang anymore. |
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04-14-2004, 11:01 PM
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Eyes So Tight I Pass For An Asian
Join Date: May 2003
City: Huntsville
State: Alabama
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PATIENCE!!!! Dont just buy something cause you can |
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04-15-2004, 01:18 AM
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Banned
Join Date: Jun 2003
City: Severn, MD
State: Maryland
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defiantly wait to find something better, remember, you pay for what you get, and APC equals too much money for cheap quality shit |
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04-15-2004, 02:39 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2003
City: Gulf Breeze
State: Florida
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lean lol
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04-15-2004, 05:52 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2003
State: South Carolina
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I would only ever consider a APC product if I new I could take there damn logo off the damn seats head wrest area...good gawd that enough to make you hurl right there....
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04-15-2004, 05:56 PM
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Long Lost Adm1n
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City: Northern Virginia
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I spent some time reading a 2 page thread over on 3.8mustang.com. A member there bought the old model APC seats off eBay that had the logo removed. He thought it'd be as easy as drilling and reusing the old brackets, but had a lot of trouble with it. I'll talk to my stepdad and see what he thinks. I'll probably just hold off and do something else like exhaust. |
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04-15-2004, 05:57 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2003
State: South Carolina
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those seats are kinda nice, not crazy about the wilf red one though...but hey the 10th Anniv. seats are leather red/black
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04-15-2004, 05:58 PM
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Long Lost Adm1n
Join Date: Jul 2003
City: Northern Virginia
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Ya... I really like the look of the APC seats... it's just getting them in that'd be a prob... |
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04-15-2004, 06:07 PM
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Eyes So Tight I Pass For An Asian
Join Date: May 2003
City: Huntsville
State: Alabama
Posts: 27,548
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dude for what you could buy those seeats for you could actually make your car fast (omg yes fast) instead of buying something like seats....... if it were me i would stop spending all my money on the appearance and start with the performance |
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