Over the years, I've always thought that the seats stood as one of the single greatest areas that could be improved in the 80, in terms of making it a more comfortable daily driver or long distance truck. This is not to say that it doesn't do these things well compared to similar platforms.
In a prior 80, a pair of IS300 seats were installed and they were ok. Recently, we tried some 1st gen Tundra seats but that proved difficult as well, given the track width. This ends up being the big issue with swapping in seats, as the track width is very narrow in the 80 compared to everything else.
So, with an upcoming trip on the horizon and no time left to hunt for the discovery or wrx seats that others are going with, I bit the bullet on a pair of Corbeau Sport Seats, along with their brackets.
To try and best match the factory seat color, I ordered SPICE from 4wheelparts. Turns out, Corbeau sent me tan which is a bit darker. No big deal.
Install took about two hours total, and that includes removal of factory seats and cleaning 20 years of junk beneath them.
I've not yet gotten much road time, but I'm happy with how they look and the initial quality. To me however, they are very very stiff. I'm hoping they might break in a little over time but we'll see.
The brackets worked, but not without a little convincing from a hammer here or there. One major perk to using these brackets on any seat, is that they allow you to put the sit back extremely far. The front seats almost touch the 2nd row in the full back position.
For those considering these on their own truck, I might suggest that you continue to hunt around for something else. For $600, you can get a pretty nice pair of used OE seats from another vehicle that has a modifying frame to make narrower slides work. To make it feasible, I'd even suggest using the corbeau brackets and slides since they worked fairly well.
In a prior 80, a pair of IS300 seats were installed and they were ok. Recently, we tried some 1st gen Tundra seats but that proved difficult as well, given the track width. This ends up being the big issue with swapping in seats, as the track width is very narrow in the 80 compared to everything else.
So, with an upcoming trip on the horizon and no time left to hunt for the discovery or wrx seats that others are going with, I bit the bullet on a pair of Corbeau Sport Seats, along with their brackets.
To try and best match the factory seat color, I ordered SPICE from 4wheelparts. Turns out, Corbeau sent me tan which is a bit darker. No big deal.
Install took about two hours total, and that includes removal of factory seats and cleaning 20 years of junk beneath them.
I've not yet gotten much road time, but I'm happy with how they look and the initial quality. To me however, they are very very stiff. I'm hoping they might break in a little over time but we'll see.
The brackets worked, but not without a little convincing from a hammer here or there. One major perk to using these brackets on any seat, is that they allow you to put the sit back extremely far. The front seats almost touch the 2nd row in the full back position.
For those considering these on their own truck, I might suggest that you continue to hunt around for something else. For $600, you can get a pretty nice pair of used OE seats from another vehicle that has a modifying frame to make narrower slides work. To make it feasible, I'd even suggest using the corbeau brackets and slides since they worked fairly well.
