I posted this thread and got little response. So I'm going to post about how my install went and some of the problems one would run into. Also the lack of information about our cars is ridiculous! I know they are fairly new, but I guess everyone that owns one doesn't mod it at all.
First I ordered a set of planted brackets and recaro sliders without tabs. The seats I purchased had sliders but they had tabs and those will not work with our cars. Review on the parts
Planted brackets seem to have been made very well and looked really nice. Recaros sliders were a simple replacement and were what I was expecting. The planted passenger bracket attached to the seat no problem other then when I tried to slide the seat forward a bracket that is attached to the seat ran into the planted bracket and I had to put to washers in between the seat and the bracket to make room for it to slide freely forward and backwards. Before attached the two I places the planted brackets in the car and realized the stock bolts were not going to work all. The bolts take a special tool that you insert in the top of the bolt, but the bracket is completely covering the bolt. So I had to switch it to a normal hex head bolt. Once I figured these to problems out the passenger seat went in pretty easy. The driver seat had the same exact problem, along with the tabs that hold a seat belt harness were way to narrow for my seat. I had to bend the left tab out so the plastics off the seat wouldn't get messed up. Another small problem that I didn't read anywhere was the bolt that holds the original seat belt guide would not work. A normal bold with a lock washer was required to get the guild attached to the bracket.
I also went and purchase 4.7 ohm resistors to try and turn off the airbag lights. I tried the resistor on the yellow plug and with no success. My cars harness had very little slack and I could even pull it out of the carpet to really try and put the resistor in the plug. All the tutorials I found were on older rs4 cars and it made me think maybe those cars had different plugs and different wiring. So I'm not even sure if I was jumping the right plugs. Also there are zero companies that I found that sell a plug for the passenger side occupancy sensor. I hope someone can give some more infor on what to do about both these problems. If you want to post just put a resistor in there please don't post your info at all.
Overall I really like the seats, but wish they were a little more direct bolt in. I know you only attach the bracket but not exactly a bolt in my eyes. They feel much smaller compared to the stock seats. Which is fine for me. I do feel like they give you a lot more back support, long trips in the original seats would get me back pains and weren't very comfortable. For the price of these seats one might not want to do the mod, but I can say there isn't nothing like looking in your car seeing a seat of recaros!
Now to the pictures
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