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[TheSoulDoctor_123]

Hello,

Apologies if this is in the wrong place, I'm really bad at navigating my way round forums I'm afraid. (Please can someone in charge put it in the right place??)

My driver's seat squab is collapsing badly, and is hideously uncomfortable.  I'm not sure whether to try swapping the cushion out for the passenger one, or whether there's another car in Vauxhall's range that I would be able to find a compatible cushion from the breakers?  I'm reckoning my chances of finding an omega are really slim.  Does anyone know?

Or does anyone on here  have a spare seat available?

Thanks,

John

[Nick W]

Hello,

Apologies if this is in the wrong place, I'm really bad at navigating my way round forums I'm afraid. (Please can someone in charge put it in the right place??)

My driver's seat squab is collapsing badly, and is hideously uncomfortable.  I'm not sure whether to try swapping the cushion out for the passenger one, or whether there's another car in Vauxhall's range that I would be able to find a compatible cushion from the breakers?  I'm reckoning my chances of finding an omega are really slim.  Does anyone know?

Or does anyone on here  have a spare seat available?

Thanks,

John

The passenger cushion is a straight swap for the driver's one. Quick and easy job; when I did mine, I found myself sitting about 20mm higher in the car, the leather was still tight over the foam, the heated seat actually worked which it had never done before and the whole seat was much more comfortable.


Swapping the seat back is a lot more problematic; I had leather seat from a CDX, and the mechanism is different to the electric ones in my Elite. I had considered fitting the cushion and cover to my seat, which would have been a lot of work, and would require cutting the 'new' trim for the air bag, as well as retaining the exisiting one on the other side. In the end I didn't bother, as the back wasn't as bad as the base.


A passenger seat in the correct trim(there aren't that many different ones, unlike a lot of cars) shouldn't be hard to find, or expensive.

[johnnydog]

What model / spec is your Omega, and what trim / colour? This info may help others in pointing you in the right direction for a good used drivers seat, although some may want to sell them as complete sets rather than split them.

[Doctor Gollum]

A new seat squab foam from Seat for my Altea was less than £40.

Always worth asking the question at VX...

[Nick W]

A new seat squab foam from Seat for my Altea was less than £40.

Always worth asking the question at VX...

It's a lot less work to fit the entire seat base to a back

[Doctor Gollum]

I agree, but breakers these days seem to be quite reluctant to actually do anything...

[TheSoulDoctor_123]

Sorry, I've not been in touch, everything has got in the way of everything else for a while, you know how it is.  So a temporary fix is a big square of foam stuffed under the seat for the moment.

I'm not sure exactly what model the car is, as the previous owner has peeled all the badges off.  I'll try and get to the v5 tonight and let you know.  It's a grey sort of coloured upholstery with little dark grey squares on, the driver's seat is electric for height but not the passenger one.  It's heated (which obviously doesn't work, though the passenger one does).  I can take a snap of the seat and attempt to upload it...

Thanks,

John.

[Doctor Gollum]

If it has headlight washers and a sunroof then it's a CDX.

No headlight washers then it's a CD.

Although the seats are interchangeable as they are the same fabric. 

[TheSoulDoctor_123]

Aha,

Thank you for that Doctor Gollum kind sir!!

It'll be a CD then!!!  Now to see if anyone's got a seat going spare.

On a side note, do you know what the little plastic things are called that hold the spare wheel carpet up?  I appear to have left them somewhere in Rural France...  I'm going to put a separate post in a minute.

John

[johnnydog]

Whilst I'm certain you could possibly locate one nearer to yourself (there are at least 4 in my local breakers for example), I have both front seats in the grey cloth in a 2002 CDX that are in good condition. It's actually an estate, but the same seats, but that aside, I'm more than a 5 minute drive away from you unfortunately...