Ok, time for me to spill on what yesterday's secret little project was all about lol, one or two of you on Facebook may have already seen a couple of photos.
Ben from the forum had messaged me in March to say that he was looking to sell his JDM Recaro's and take his interior back to standard giving me first refusal, knowing the condition that the seats where in when Ben first brought them and how well he looks after his car it was a no brainer.
Ben also offered me his facelift door panels to match the seats and his JDM floor mats so I ended up going for all three
Rubbish weather yesterday but still had a good journey up to Denbigh to meet Ben at his work, luckily they have a good size warehouse allowing us to get the cars undercover to swap everything over in the dry.
After a good hour or so catching up with Ben (absolutely top lad) we made a start removing the drivers seat from his EP3, before removing the seats from mine and exchanging them all over, relatively easy job especially with two pairs of hands which is good to angle the seats in without catching anything, they then just need a little persuasion to get the frames lined up which again is relatively easy with two people working on them together.
Ben had swapped over his seats a couple of times before but the door cards where new territory for both of us, after having a look at a walk through guide on the internet we decided just to crack on with it (a bit daunting prising the door cards off the poppers for the first time) everything went relatively well especially after we had taken one off and knew exactly what to do, the only exception being that we found a pre-facelift drivers side window controller is not compatible with the facelift wiring loom and vice versa haha.
Bit of a funny moment at the very end when we both couldn't get back out of our drivers doors, realising that we hadn't reset the handle mechanism fully so back off with both door cards to correct our error, overall a brilliant day, great to see Ben again and couldn't be happier with the interior
A few photos of the new interior and mine and Ben's cars together below.....