Hi, Guest
11-12-2004, 04:03 PM
Seats can be really easy or really hard. It depends if you got the money to buy the extras or if you are a handy guy and can fabricate your own brackets.
Here is my experience. I have seen Sparco Torino 1 and 2 seats in person and I have seen Tom Motorsports Torino style replicas. The seats are identical. The material and everything. You could unstitch the Toms Motorsport badge off and put a Sparco emblem on and know one would ever know the difference LOL. The big difference is price. Sparco your looking at $$$ and with Toms you can get a pair for about $500 CDN. Thats ok if your just wanting the basic seat so it looks.
How ever I run into a problem with seats. I could never get a cheap brand becuase they either make a large seat or a medium. Nothing that really fits me to my knowledge. There fore I have to go with an actual brand name like Sparco or Corbeua and get a seat that if going to fit me lol :lol: Other than that cotton is cotton, leather is leather etc etc. They all use the same materials and all the materials are made in the same shop by some 5 year old kid making 35cents an hour. So I say if you want the bling factor of saying you got this brand name or in a situation where you need a special size seat thens sure. But if you just wanting to get new seats to replace the stock focus seats and bit nicer im sure a cheaper brand would just do. Plus a stock Focus seat from a dealor is expensive..
Getting them into the car is the bitch!! Im all about custom fabrication and if you can do it sure. Custom make some mounts and bam. Goto the metal shop and find a welder. Get ready to spent a good few hours. I heard ppl say its not safe to make your own brackets but if you know what your doing you can make some really nice ones. Just make sure if bolted down good and your good to go.
I know the the Toms seats do include sliders but I know a few Sparco seats dont and you have to buy them seperately witch is bling bling. Also if you want to take the easy route and buy the mount mades for the car thats more bling. Im not sure about Corbeua (dunno how to spell it).
Hopefully that helps a bit.
P.S. The Tom Motorsport seats smell like WEED really bad from the box. Gotta hose them down with air freshner for a good week LOL..
Here is my experience. I have seen Sparco Torino 1 and 2 seats in person and I have seen Tom Motorsports Torino style replicas. The seats are identical. The material and everything. You could unstitch the Toms Motorsport badge off and put a Sparco emblem on and know one would ever know the difference LOL. The big difference is price. Sparco your looking at $$$ and with Toms you can get a pair for about $500 CDN. Thats ok if your just wanting the basic seat so it looks.
How ever I run into a problem with seats. I could never get a cheap brand becuase they either make a large seat or a medium. Nothing that really fits me to my knowledge. There fore I have to go with an actual brand name like Sparco or Corbeua and get a seat that if going to fit me lol :lol: Other than that cotton is cotton, leather is leather etc etc. They all use the same materials and all the materials are made in the same shop by some 5 year old kid making 35cents an hour. So I say if you want the bling factor of saying you got this brand name or in a situation where you need a special size seat thens sure. But if you just wanting to get new seats to replace the stock focus seats and bit nicer im sure a cheaper brand would just do. Plus a stock Focus seat from a dealor is expensive..
Getting them into the car is the bitch!! Im all about custom fabrication and if you can do it sure. Custom make some mounts and bam. Goto the metal shop and find a welder. Get ready to spent a good few hours. I heard ppl say its not safe to make your own brackets but if you know what your doing you can make some really nice ones. Just make sure if bolted down good and your good to go.
I know the the Toms seats do include sliders but I know a few Sparco seats dont and you have to buy them seperately witch is bling bling. Also if you want to take the easy route and buy the mount mades for the car thats more bling. Im not sure about Corbeua (dunno how to spell it).
Hopefully that helps a bit.
P.S. The Tom Motorsport seats smell like WEED really bad from the box. Gotta hose them down with air freshner for a good week LOL..