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I just came across a set of navy blue leather front seats and rear seats for 300 bucks and they are in perfect condition. in my 99 contour lx i have ugly cloth seats with some weird pattern. is it possible to put these leather ones in? they are out of a 1998 contour svt they look the exact same but leather but i wanted to make sure before i bought them. thanks
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They should bolt right up.
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it looks like they would but what about the back seats? is that going to be realy difficult thats what im worried about the most
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The back seat isnt hard to talk out. I would tell you how to do it, but its been too long and I forgot some of the steps, like what size torx you need for the seat back  Try a search on removing the rear seat, many people have done it to run stereo wires, etc.
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i have a friend who bought some SVT COBRA R racing seats from a Ford racing shop and he jerry rigged and finagled with them until he got them in...took like a week for each seat, but he did it. they dont move foreward or backward though, so nobody can borrow his car unl;ess they are 6'6" and weigh 210 lbs
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Seats are very easy to take out.  I really need to right up installs and manuals!
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Originally posted by one03wannabe:
I just came across a set of navy blue leather front seats and rear seats for 300 bucks and they are in perfect condition. in my 99 contour lx i have ugly cloth seats with some weird pattern. is it possible to put these leather ones in? they are out of a 1998 contour svt they look the exact same but leather but i wanted to make sure before i bought them. thanks
hardest part is the door-side seatbelt anchor. It's mounted to the seat with a thread-cutting torx bolt, and there's no room for a bit. I used visegrips to get mine out. Test out the SVT seats real well, I found them to be too "bouncy".
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how do i get the backseats out then? i got the front ones out just no clue on how to get the back ones out.
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On my car (no fold down). Just pull the cushion up and then it may have some bolts (can't remember), once you pull it up (maybe forward a little) you'll be able to tell. Remove any bolts you find holding the back rest in and then (what I did) stand where the cusion was and pull toward you some and lift up the back rest so it unhooks from the car. It's sorta takes a while to figure out, but just look at it, you'll get it.
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Originally posted by ibub:
Originally posted by one03wannabe:
I just came across a set of navy blue leather front seats and rear seats for 300 bucks and they are in perfect condition. in my 99 contour lx i have ugly cloth seats with some weird pattern. is it possible to put these leather ones in? they are out of a 1998 contour svt they look the exact same but leather but i wanted to make sure before i bought them. thanks
hardest part is the door-side seatbelt anchor. It's mounted to the seat with a thread-cutting torx bolt, and there's no room for a bit. I used visegrips to get mine out. Test out the SVT seats real well, I found them to be too "bouncy".
Ah, so that's what a visegrip is. I had always heard someone say, "I've got your balls in a visegrip," but I never knew what that meant until today. I assumed it was just a really tight fist grip.
It gives that comment a whole new meaning to me...
Thanks ibub 
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