106 GTi Interior Fitting Guide - Saxperience

Predator_R32^p · 12th January 2008, 17:27

Information

This is a very popular modification to enhance your interiors looks (unless your a track slag and want to strip the car), not only looks good but they are so comfortable.

First thing you want to do is to source a gti interior, there are two types :-

Non Airbagged (thanks to mike cracknell for picture)

Airbagged

as you can see the airbagged ones just have side airbags built in, and in my opinion hug you better than the non airbagged ones

Best place to buy a set is:-

Breakers yards
Ebay
Scrapyards
Saxo forums such as here and www.saxosportsclub.com

they can range in price from 150 right up to 600 maybe more, remember set yourself a limit and stick to it

, look at the condition too there are a lot about that have the bolster cushions worn away, if in doubt ask for more pictures, also remember your old interior you can sell for up to 150 pound to make some money back.

Guide

First of all is to remove all the old interior, first of all disconnect the battery, and leave for ten minutes before starting, then disconnect the pre tensioner wires under the 2 front seats

Next you need to remove the 2 front seats, each seat is held in by T40 torx bolts, and they are located as below

These 2 are located in the middle of the car, and can be accessed by maneuvering the seat backwards and forwards

These two are located on the sides of the car and again can be accessed by maneuvering the seat backwards and forwards

Now you can start on the rear seats, for the bottom cushion (bit you place your bum on) all you need to do is lift the up whilst pulling, it will come off at one angle, take the cushion/s out

Next is the backrest/s these are pretty easy to get off 2 nuts on either side of the car, these can be accessed from the boot, then push the lever forward to release the seat

The solid cushion should come off after this but the split folding has a bracket with 2 slots in that allows the seats to pivot forward, all you do is push them forward and again at a certain angle they will just pull out

Now all the interior is out its a good idea to hoover the car. Next you can fix the brackets for the rear seats in place, there are more in total if you had the solid rear bench but if split folding rears then you wont need any, make sure you get all brackets with the gti interior

If you dont have the brackets as above you can order them from the dealers

Seat Fix Bracket (Number 6) - 8957G2 £4.90p each including VAT
Mounting Bracket (Number 5) - 8957G3 £10.02p each including VAT

The brackets are fixed in place by bolts for the bottom cushions and self tapping screws for the pivoting bracket (sorry for the bad picture)

Then all you need to do is put the gti interior the same way you took out the old interior, tighten all nuts and bolts up, lock the backseats in place into the brackets as above pictures show and connect the wiring under the 2 front seats, basically repeat the guide backwards

Airbag

You will probablies find that the airbag light will come on in most cars, theres a few ways you can overcome this

Tape over the light by accessing the dial pod
Take out the bulb on the dial pod (this isn't recommended on mk2 saxos with smd leds instead of bulbs as the leds run in series of 3, so if you take one out two others wont work)
Disconnect the airbag ecu located on the transmission tunnel under the carpet
You can also use a 2ohms resistor to link the two wires that are in the pretensioner wire together, so it loops back on itself

Doorcards

Steviet has kindly did a guide for fitting the 106 doorcards to a saxo

http://www.saxperience.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=127992

You can retrim the saxo doorcards in the same as the seats, dark grey alcantara is the exact match for this and will probablies cost you another 100 pound as its 50 pounds a metre in places, or you can use some faux charcoal suede, its near enough to the alcantara on the seats and about 4 pound a metre

Heres mine

Or

You can source some doorcards from a Saxo Desire, these are a very good match

I will be doing a guide on retrimming doorcards so watch this space, any questions or queries pm me or use the almighty search button

Thanks for reading

saxochap · 12th January 2008, 17:46

well done mate !

sure this will be of some use to loads of people. !

Predator_R32^p · 12th January 2008, 17:48

should do its asked everyday so thought whilst im bored ill get one done

steviet · 12th January 2008, 17:52

nice one pred . hopefully will stop all the 106 seat threads

stoney_182 · 12th January 2008, 18:19

awesome guide, sticky it if it hasnt been done already

bide_furio · 12th January 2008, 18:29

very good been waiting for someone to do this guide as its always asked! rep will be coming soon

pritchard9025 · 13th January 2008, 17:17

ive retrimed my door cards and cant seem too get the retrimed part too sit back right in ist originaln place. how did you do it thnx m8

andywiddss1 · 13th January 2008, 17:23

nice one mate

Predator_R32^p · 13th January 2008, 17:42

soldering iron and tie wraps cut into bits, melt them back on with the aid of clamps to hold them together whilst the plastic cools

im going to do a guide so dont worry, might be done by the end of the month

Berg · 13th January 2008, 22:59

nice 1 m8

lets hope people see it before they ask

cant work out the diagram, which part number is the middle bracket for the rear bench,
as mine didnt come with the bracket, is it the same as the vts one?

nazz1 · 13th January 2008, 23:17

good guide that mate,

I fancy a 106 interior

will probably still ask my mate to do it for me though

Predator_R32^p · 13th January 2008, 23:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by Berg

nice 1 m8

lets hope people see it before they ask

cant work out the diagram, which part number is the middle bracket for the rear bench,
as mine didnt come with the bracket, is it the same as the vts one?

its the one called the mounting bracket, ill edit that a bit then