Best Bride Seat replicas?
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Best Bride Seat replicas?
Looking to get a seat of Stradas for the FD but the cost of the real Bride seats is of the scale. I've seen some replicas that look good on pictures but not seen them up close. Any word on the source of the best replicas? are there many?
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Jpr
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Jpr
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Recently bought a parts car with some Rep BRIDE seats. I have the Vios III low max buckets and a set of the replica buckets... Visually they are really really hard to tell apart. Stitching, shape, and embroidery are spot on but the fit is super tight. I'm 6'-0 190 and fit in a size 32 seat but these seats I can barely squeeze my *** into. I know BRIDE fits tight but these are for someone that's 5'-8 155lbs honestly. Also there are no certification tags or stickers on them as to the safety of them
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Yeah, I don't think most the people replying understood you were looking for a reclining "sports seat" not a "racing seat".
Bride Stradia
I haven't looked at the China copies too closely, but the one I was looking at copied the real Bride recline and folding mechanism exactly so it should be safer than an OEM seat as it has the Bride safeties (recline only works on ****, folding is a separate positive/robust mechanism).
The biggest things are the materials and workmanship are cheap on the copies so the cloth will fade fast, isn't fire retardant the welds/materials are much more likely to break in an accident than real Bride.
Stock seats aren't great for safety.
There is no safety on seat recline/folding. I just started driving with a co-driver who wants a different seat position in my RX-8 and had the rude awakening of the seat back collapsing (probably wasn't set correctly after changing recline position) on a very hard braking transition from around 60mph and it was like one of the people in those silly Japanese core workout machine commercials. On my FC I also had a stock JDM rail break off completely racing with a 130lb passenger, though I never had a problem with the more robust USDM rails.
Bride Stradia
I haven't looked at the China copies too closely, but the one I was looking at copied the real Bride recline and folding mechanism exactly so it should be safer than an OEM seat as it has the Bride safeties (recline only works on ****, folding is a separate positive/robust mechanism).
The biggest things are the materials and workmanship are cheap on the copies so the cloth will fade fast, isn't fire retardant the welds/materials are much more likely to break in an accident than real Bride.
Stock seats aren't great for safety.
There is no safety on seat recline/folding. I just started driving with a co-driver who wants a different seat position in my RX-8 and had the rude awakening of the seat back collapsing (probably wasn't set correctly after changing recline position) on a very hard braking transition from around 60mph and it was like one of the people in those silly Japanese core workout machine commercials. On my FC I also had a stock JDM rail break off completely racing with a 130lb passenger, though I never had a problem with the more robust USDM rails.