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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: OTeunico on 13 February 2025, 23:36:59
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Hi all,
I have been searching for years for a folding passenger seat. At last I have found one at a scrapyard.
Unfortunately its no local to me and I cannot check it. Donor car is a 2000 4 door saloon. I see that it's the airbag type and has electric height adjustment. Apart from that...will it fit my 1998 B1? Also a 4 door saloon.
TIA.
https://postimg.cc/gallery/TTQRT6x
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It will bolt straight in.
Does your car have side airbags?
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Nope, I have no side airbags. My idea was discard that airbag and fit a pair of seat covers. Or will my seat trim fit the new one? Maybe the cushion shape is not exactly the same...
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Ignore the side airbag then and just don't plug it in. If you have a passenger front airbag, then the seat occupancy sensor will need plugging in. Refer to the original seat to identify the correct plug.
You could remove the airbag assembly from the frame and keep the trim in place, but it will be easier to simply bolt the seat straight in and forget the airbag is there. This way, you haven't modified anything important.
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If your 98 model is a MFL, then the airbag and seatbelt pretensioner will be compatible. Seat heaters won't work.
https://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=90680.0
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I had forgotten about the pretensioner. This will be fitted if you have a passenger front airbag.
It will be easy enough to swap your existing pretensioner onto the new seat. It's one bolt and a cable tie.
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Thank you all for the info.
Mine was first registered in september 1998 and is the MFL type (i.e. headrest without "hole").
Once fitted the folding front seat I could start my "camper" conversion 8)
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I had forgotten about the pretensioner. This will be fitted if you have a passenger front airbag.
It will be easy enough to swap your existing pretensioner onto the new seat. It's one bolt and a cable tie.
All Omegas have pretensioners, only the first had a mechanical type rather than the explosive type fitted later.
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Thank you all for the info.
Mine was first registered in september 1998 and is the MFL type (i.e. headrest without "hole").
Once fitted the folding front seat I could start my "camper" conversion 8)
Should be good to go then, if you can live without the seat heaters :)
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I have been patient and never bought those B2 seats...local scrapyard obtained a B1 mfl with exactly the same trim as mine!
Now I have a matching folding front seat and I have also bought the rear bench cushion, modified by slicing about 2" for a flat cargo area when folding the rear ones.
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Some pics here
https://postimg.cc/gallery/fmDB71W
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(https://i.postimg.cc/VrWJVtp0/IMG-20260211-184408-610.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/VrWJVtp0)
(https://i.postimg.cc/47QYScqc/IMG-20260211-184414-261.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/47QYScqc)
(https://i.postimg.cc/MMmnFBNj/IMG-20260211-191152-681.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/MMmnFBNj)
(https://i.postimg.cc/8Jm70v9J/IMG-20260211-191516-679.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/8Jm70v9J)
(https://i.postimg.cc/34Ty11S0/Screenshot-20260211-192733.png) (https://postimg.cc/34Ty11S0)
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Folding front seat in place. I still have to adapt the wiring for the height adjustment.
Airbag wiring not connected, since my Omega does not have it.
(https://i.postimg.cc/FdtDbVr0/IMG-20260212-200222-113.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/FdtDbVr0)
(https://i.postimg.cc/tZ02dNqf/IMG-20260212-200234-186.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/tZ02dNqf)
(https://i.postimg.cc/0MgcG0k4/IMG-20260212-200240-483.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/0MgcG0k4)
(https://i.postimg.cc/62sYVfWD/IMG-20260212-215141-619.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/62sYVfWD)
(https://i.postimg.cc/Q9L0gJ8w/IMG-20260212-215403-901.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/Q9L0gJ8w)
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Nice work :y