Zed seat headrest

Does anyone know if the headrest in the zed seats can be removed? I want to customise mine a little with extra height and padding in case of a rear ender.

I checked Recaros at Auto Salon and they wanted $5000, egads!

Cheers and thanks for any info.
Geoff

 

Yes they can be removed.

Be extremely careful about re-designing the shape/size of your headrest, they are anotomically designed to provide the optimum support in an accident.
Too much, too little or wrongly shaped padding, can be more dangerous than advantageous.

 

go full recaros or OBX

Recaros feel like heaven
standard feels like armchairs in comparision

 

I guess that is the full leather electric option Recaro?

One drive with good aftermarket seats and you'll never want to go back.

Cheers
Ian

 

If you were interested in just buying a set of

aftermarket seats, one of the car magazines recently did a few page listing of different seats, pricing, and what standards they meet (ADR, Cams etc). If your interested I can go back and find which mag it was? (Either Speed or 2DMax, either last edition, or one before).

If you want me to, also send an email as I don't get on the forum as much as I would like any more. Send email to mark.picker 'at' bigpond.com (just replace the 'at'. Don't want any search spiders grabbing my email address for spam)

I would agree with Chilli about making changes to the headrest of existing seats. (But then again I would agree with him, no one wants to disagree and get that monkey on your back.... Hi Chilli )

As a guide, I had my other Zed retrimmed (2 seater, plus all the doors, centre console, glovebox etc) in a black/red/gray velour (spelling?) which was around $50 to $60 pm. Had the base of the seats repadded and did have those filled out a little more than standard, plus replaced padding on edge of seat (around the hip area). All up it was either $900 or $980. Chilli also had his 2+2 retrimmed by the same guy (here in Dubbo), so he may be able to tell you price on a 4 seater.

Hope that helps.

Cheers
Mark

 

You cheeky B#stard! You'll get yours.

 

Thanks Mark and Chili. I would like the Recaros but 5k!@##$@#!

The zed seats are very comfortable its just that as I sit higher (read as lots of bum padding)and drive in a fairly reclined manner I just feel uneasy about no neck support.

Thanks for the feedback guys
Cheers
Geoff

 

paid $750 for each of my recaros then $250 for rails

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