Just wanted to share this with everyone so they can hopefully avoid similar situations.

I was recently in a small accident with my thirdgen in which I lost control of the vehicle on the highway during some slight rain. I thankfully avoided hitting anyone else or any large structures but I did go off the road and back on. Due to the small amount of force from bouncing around and spinning my passenger seat was bent in a more reclined position, and my drivers seat metal supports inside the seat completely snapped, rendering the seat useless and causing me a little back issues.

Moral of the story is, don't be a cheap kid like I was years ago when I bought these ebay seats for $150 each. It's worth it to pay for a far superior seat that could be the difference between life or death in a bad accident.

Drive safe and keep the thirdgens alive!

 

Never thought of that. Thanks for the heads up.

 

Any pics? Brand?

 

I will try to get a picture of the passenger seat, the drivers seat is long gone. It was a run of the mill Ebay seat, no actual brand on it

 

I fully agree... I have ebay red/black "race" seats in mine, and years ago before the roll cage went in, I was testing the car on a back road. Stopped, and launched the car and the driver seat back broke at the adjustment point. I was laying back looking up through the T top.

I got the car back home and welded the seat back together in the position I liked, then about 8 mo. later added a 10 pt cage. Still using those same seats but with the cage's seat cross bar, I don't have to worry about that happening again

 

yup sounds about right, just above the adjustment lever it snapped for me on black and red seats... luckily you found out the problem on a back road and not on a track