Recaro C's on EBay
 

Thought someone might be interested. I'm after them in parchment to replace the front seats. These seem to be the hot ticket in the 500e's if you are going to replace them. I have no connection to the seller just thought someone might want em.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Recar...item4150984d3f

Pretty sure you want cream/beige, the parchment color is similar in shade, but noticably different if put a cream beige item next to it.

oh no kidding? Good to know. These seats look pretty cool, I think the lighter colors are probably even more rare than black ones. I'm sure they'll come around at some point. Thanks for the heads up.

Found out the hard way myself, replaced my center console box with one from a 95, that shade is a parchment, lighter than the cream beige.

What car did these come standard in, if anyone knows?

For Mercedes they were an aftermarket AMG install in the 124 and 126 cars.

this is the only beige/tan color Recaro offered, right? Or are we saying there is a different shade, or do I just have the name of the color wrong? These look so sweet, I'll find em' soon enough..

Recaro offered cloth, vinyl and leather in the Classic C.
Colors were basic but none matched the eighties Mercedes leather options.

The only way you will find a Merc color match is to locate an AMG upgrade set or one that was retrimmed to merc spec.

The chance of finding is not so good.
The seats were a $10K option from AMG so the market is very thin and priced accordingly.

Best to buy what you find and have them retrimmed.
Cost about $1200.00 for Merc leather retrim.

I'll post pix of a set that I'm having done in Palomino with the perforated center sections.

You'll have to devise mounting.
Seats are only power back adjust, manual forward/rear adjust.
You can adapt to stock Merc rails but seat may sit too high for your comfort.

Seats are heated with pneumatic bolster adjust, all other adjustments are by hand knob.

Original switches on the control panel are no longer available, but I've sourced some modern replacements.

If you really want them, then buy the black set and get retrimmed.
My guess is that the black set will go for around $800.00 as is.

Good Luck

Ed A.

If anybody wants, I can pick them up locally before they sell. He says he wants around $750, maybe I can finnagle him down a bit.

Recaro specific mounting brackets are available via Ebay.de, I see them all the time.

http://cgi.ebay.de/Recaro-Konsole-ne...item35a329cf64

Great info, you guys are ontop of your ***** around here, I appreciate that. The shop that I use down here may be able to match them for me. You think 1200 per seat is fair price to do it?

Rik

Difficult to find in the USA..
End up around $500.00 for the set when a $50.00 set of Jeep CJ7 and some miscellaneous channel and angle will give the same result !!! :y

Ed A.

$1200.00 is what I'm paying..
Seats are finished and I may pick them up tomorrow !

Buying from Ebay of Germany is no big deal, exchange rates are good and shipping is not too high, biggest problem is finding sellers willing to ship to the USA and that accept Paypal. But since the Recaro brackets are always on Ebay.de, its not difficult to find a willing seller. I bought a set for my CLK, it wasn't problematic at all and made the installation simple (actually I buy alot of parts from Ebay.de)

The auction I posted is 194 euro shipped to USA, and the seller accepts paypal. So thats right around $238 US dollars shipped for a pair. Thats a pretty good price.

Nice to know there are alternatives though. Did you document this anywhere?

just FYI, if you want anything off of ebay.de and the seller won't ship here, I've got a guy who bids on my behalf and ships for me.

Depending on the adapter, the W124 (some 260E or Euro) manual seat brackets bolt on. Nick in the UK adapted the power bottoms (there's a YouTube video of it) which may be a problem for taller drivers but it has all the front back, up down power adjustment. My OE sliders have front back and slide forward at an angle adjustment. There is also knob that supposed to push up the front but it's useless with the Recaro adapter, see my wagon thread.

I love the feel of these seats and they have great lateral support. I miss the power base adjustments but that's a small downside...

Your German is better then mine...

If it's for a pair then it's not so bad...

Have the fabricated parts laid out with the CJ7 manual rails, but need to get the seats back from thr trim shop to do a proper fit..

Install the Google tool bar for IE, it can automatically translate web pages in different languages to English. Since English grew out of the Germanic language, the word for word translation is very good (not so good for Russian or Japanese though)

Actually did that last night..
I can't see anywhere in the listing that the auction is for a pair.

Emailed the seller for clarification.

If it's for one side only, it's not such a good deal !!!

I am going off of the statement "Both Sides" but the translation is not that clear. Further into the description is does say "one seat adapter", so you might be right. Let us know what the seller says.


You buy by purchasing a Buy new, original packaging , high-quality , BOTH SIDES Incorporable seat panel said better ( one seat adapter , as there is a part of the standard seat substructure , as well as the rails continue to be , but " adapter " is rarely used as a search term in the search ), brand Recaro ( Manufacturer SKU: 85.51.09 / 855 109 ) for the following Mercedes - BenzVehicle models:

Rik

I take "both sides" as meaning rails are suitable for "both" driver and passenger side.
Only one part number is indicated and the part number indicates one set.

I also show part numbers 85.50.09 and 85.52.09 as adapters for the W124.
Not sure of the difference as my info comes from the original installation instructions. :y

Ed A.

P.S.

No response from the EBAY DE seller and the business day has closed in Germany at this writing.

You could very well be right.

Your part numbers are for very old W124's built in 1985, the 85.51.09 is listed for everything built after 5/85.

I found this file to be helpfull, at least for Recaro bracket part numbers, it came in handy to verify proper part numbers for my CLK.

Oh, here is another for $160 euro, this one does specifically state "Driver and Passenger"

http://cgi.ebay.de/DB-W-124-KONSOLEn...item3f001ac26c

The set on ebay are a great price, although the driver side has very deep cracking, which is very difficult to rectify. The passenger side has a tear also.

He has these listed on a Porsche forum that I frequent & he sent me some high res pictures. PM me if you would like me to forward them on.

AMGTDNJ - the biege seats in the picture you posted are mine. They're currently wrapped up & waiting for my decision on which car to put them in! Onlt set I've ever come across in that color. Just before I bought them, I missed out on a NOS set covered in Palamino - amazing... I would have changed the rest of my interior for those seats.

I need these, how much do you guys think it'd cost to ship something like this to Australia?

plane seats in a car please

The motorized seats weigh 32.5kg each, if you want to ask some freight companies for quotes. A better value option if you have that sort of money to spend is to take a vacation to the seller's destination and bring them back on the plane with you as additional luggage. I did that with my ebay.de Recaros. :y

Also, I weighed the stock electric seats that I took out earlier today and they are 30kg each. I gave the weight of the electric Recaro C above. The manual version with no bolster adjustment weighs slightly less at 24kg. Thus today's seat swap saved a whopping 3.5kg!