Renegade 914 Seats, as seen on Pelican Parts Options

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Anyone using Renegade seats offered by Pelican Parts?
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Any comments?

[Toast]

I see there are a few things to be learned from this little thread...thank you gentlemen.

First of all, I asked if my office manager, Melba, would post this for me on my behalf. She agreed...but I ask that you 'gents' understand that she is just the messenger...and a really great employee of Renegade. So be nice...she really likes being a part of the 914 community.

Secondly, I see there are many that would consider a Renegade seat IF it didn't say "Renegade". For years, we figured "Sparco", "Momo", and "Recaro" could do it, so why can't we? Then, one of my best customers paid us BIG money to have his new $2000 Sparco seats redone for his converted 930 because the name "Sparco" reminded him of the little radios some of us would buy at Radio Shack when we were kids. So...if you ask nicely (ha-ha), there will be no "Renegade" on your seats.

Lastly, it is no secret that we use the existing cores supplied by our customers and build the seat as you have seen on this thread. The funny thing is, we had never had any failures to our rivet method since day one that we were aware of. Furthermore, all of us with 914's have 'our' seats and race the crap out of our cars. The only thing that I can figure is the core was brittle due to age and heat, or there was cause for breakage from a hard hit. If the seats were sent back, we probably would have found another core and fixed the issue. We have been known to do nice things for nice people! ;-) (**Toast says its because of Sean's short butt getting in and out of it all the time that it broke. teehee)

Our seats work perfectly with people that wish to use the stock back-pad without modification, that want more leg room, that desire a comfortable seat, and that don't want to monkey with changing the whole seat mounting system. I really like the tip feature of the stock seats which is maintained with our Renegade seats. The lower height is also desirable, especially when you wear a helmet. For the money, they work very well in the 914. We have many happy customers. I hope this little post (thanks Melba) will help clarify what has been said.

Thanks all for giving Renegade a chance to learn from past experiences. Now back to your normally scheduled programming!!!

Scott Mann
Owner
Renegade Hybrids

[andys]

I see there are a few things to be learned from this little thread...thank you gentlemen.

First of all, I asked if my office manager, Melba, would post this for me on my behalf. She agreed...but I ask that you 'gents' understand that she is just the messenger...and a really great employee of Renegade. So be nice...she really likes being a part of the 914 community.

Secondly, I see there are many that would consider a Renegade seat IF it didn't say "Renegade". For years, we figured "Sparco", "Momo", and "Recaro" could do it, so why can't we? Then, one of my best customers paid us BIG money to have his new $2000 Sparco seats redone for his converted 930 because the name "Sparco" reminded him of the little radios some of us would buy at Radio Shack when we were kids. So...if you ask nicely (ha-ha), there will be no "Renegade" on your seats.

Lastly, it is no secret that we use the existing cores supplied by our customers and build the seat as you have seen on this thread. The funny thing is, we had never had any failures to our rivet method since day one that we were aware of. Furthermore, all of us with 914's have 'our' seats and race the crap out of our cars. The only thing that I can figure is the core was brittle due to age and heat, or there was cause for breakage from a hard hit. If the seats were sent back, we probably would have found another core and fixed the issue. We have been known to do nice things for nice people! ;-) (**Toast says its because of Sean's short butt getting in and out of it all the time that it broke. teehee)

Our seats work perfectly with people that wish to use the stock back-pad without modification, that want more leg room, that desire a comfortable seat, and that don't want to monkey with changing the whole seat mounting system. I really like the tip feature of the stock seats which is maintained with our Renegade seats. The lower height is also desirable, especially when you wear a helmet. For the money, they work very well in the 914. We have many happy customers. I hope this little post (thanks Melba) will help clarify what has been said.

Thanks all for giving Renegade a chance to learn from past experiences. Now back to your normally scheduled programming!!!

Scott Mann
Owner
Renegade Hybrids

Where on your WEB site is there information on your seats?

Andys