C2 Seat leather on C1 Frame?

WildRacer

WildRacer

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Jul 2, 2017
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I've recently come across a wrecking yard with a C2 Cougar which has only done 45000Kms (28,000 Miles) and is a car which belonged to a member of the Aussie Ford Forums in the Cougar section (Which is like a desert these days) he also roamed around the 'other US' forum. I was lucky enough to spot it out of chance when I was driving down the road the yard is on. By sifting through his posts it looks like he's done a few modifications to the car and has also re-trimmed the leather seats. He became inactive on the forums in around 2012/2013, in which I believe he sold the car on. The next owner has obviously had an accident of some sort in it and it's turned up in this yard.

I have spoken to the owner of the wrecking yard and I asked if he was willing to part with the seats, he told me he has another two Cougars and said that he plans to put all the good stuff out of the C2 into a C1 he has. Although he is a little ill and his son is doing the majority of the work but the trick is his son is into Nissans and his dad is into Fords :eek:. His son even told me he wont be working on the Cougars at all until he finished his 2/3 Nissan projects, he's been working on one for 2 years and it's still not close to being done.

So anyway he offered me a price for the whole car which is a fair amount of dough for a wrecked Cougar. But knowing me it's too hard to resist, so I went over the whole car and looked around at some things I could take off it and put on my C1 Eibach, Front strut bar check, Dual sports exhaust check, custom headers check, among other things. So his son showed me around the car and said hop into the drivers seat. Being in a wrecking yard with other cars the space was quite tight. But I managed to get in and Holy Moly the seats felt A LOT better and more comfortable than my C1 seats.

So I was fluffing around trying to move the seat back and was feeling around and couldn't find the bars that control the movement but I managed to find the power height adjustment button and No heated seat buttons on either side?

I thought that was quite strange as I've never seen another Cougar advertised in Oz without the heated seats or power adjustments, I suspected it was standard kit over here.

So I am still considering the purchase as it is only a couple of miles away from my house. But my main question here is, can I possibly take the headrest, leather and padding from the C2 seat and reskin my C1 seats on my current one? to retain the power functions. If so, you may see a C2 on here wrecking for parts :D

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Drivers side:
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Passenger side:
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Sorry for the long read.o_O
 
I have no idea whether the internal frames are the same between C1 and C2 - there might be differences to account for the wider base and bolster - but the thing that immediately leaps out at me is the potential for the side airbag cylinders being different.

The bases are likely to be identical and swappable, though you then have the potential risk of losing powered tilt and lumbar support. Again, I've had C1s apart before but never a C2. Personally, I'd probably pull apart one of the C2 seats, and compare it to pics (there's some here somewhere) of a C1 with its clothes off.

As for the fact that they are leather but not powered or heated... You mention that a previous owner had them re-skinned at some point. Could he have meant that they were originally cloth and he re-skinned them in leather? See because I've only seen manual, unheated seats in cloth, (though to be fair my experience of C2s is very limited, let alone Australian Cougars).
 
Thanks for the replies! I'll dig into it a little further but the owner of the wrecking yard has another C2 with a pair of original leather seats but he wants $800 for just the two front and rear seats which is a bit of a stretch. I may wait a little while and come back to him in a month or so.
 
The Ford leather seats are part-perforated leather; the surfaces that most contact your back and seat.

It might be that the rear seats follow the style of the front, necessitated by the heated seat elements.
 
nvingo said:
The Ford leather seats are part-perforated leather; the surfaces that most contact your back and seat.

It might be that the rear seats follow the style of the front, necessitated by the heated seat elements.
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Yeah the rears follow the same pattern as the front

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Procomm said:
the modification is easy enough to just swap over the c1 base plate with motors and have the C2 foam and leatherette (y)
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Cheers for that mate, makes my decision a lot easier. :) Will they still look/feel like C2 seats if I put them on the C1 base?

TopCat1127 said:
Tell him they're worth 150 quid lol
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Haha I wish it was that easy mate, he's the non-negotiable type but i'll see what I can do (y)
 
Just another quick query, after I sat in the C2 with genuine leather seats in them (With the power options) the side bolstering on both the back and the bottom part were nearly rock hard. I thought this seemed strange as my C1 seats are very soft. So I checked the C2 with the re-trimmed seats and they were really soft like my C1s.

Does anyone know whether the genuine leather C2 seats are supposed to have the hard side back and bottom bolsters?

Cheers.
 
Mako said:
Yeah, they would be if they came off the line at Flat Rock.

I wonder whether WildRacer's ones are either C1s modified by someone - since C1s are a bit rubbish - or just worn out?
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I'm not sure if my C1s are modified but I have a second C1 (for parts) and those seats feel even flatter (but still soft) than the ones in my eibach.

I just thought the C2 with the original seats that the guy at the wrecking yard has might have been sitting out in the sun too long so they went hard? I haven't ever sat in another C2 apart from the one with re-trimmed seats (Which were originally cloth) to compare it to.
 
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