I had my back seat out for the 1st time so I could remove and do a little R&R on my seat belt retractors .
For those of you with the inferior 1973 and early cars, the 1974 models have the front shoulder belt retractors behind the rear upper armrests. Anyway, the rear seats didn't appear to be held in place with any fasteners, and I was surprised to see they were built up on moulded fiberglass shells. I thought BMW started this with the E24's. I've also never seen leather attached with rivets, but obviously you couldn't use hog rings..
Where the earlier E9 rear seats done in the more traditional horse hair on springs manner? One nice thing about what I found is that the slowly disintegrating horsehair padding is entirely captured within the seat sheel so there's no mess under the seats.
Q: What's the big relay for (the one under the driver side rear seat base)? see last pic. Car is a carb'd model from new, so no rear fuel pump.
For those of you with the inferior 1973 and early cars, the 1974 models have the front shoulder belt retractors behind the rear upper armrests. Anyway, the rear seats didn't appear to be held in place with any fasteners, and I was surprised to see they were built up on moulded fiberglass shells. I thought BMW started this with the E24's. I've also never seen leather attached with rivets, but obviously you couldn't use hog rings..
Where the earlier E9 rear seats done in the more traditional horse hair on springs manner? One nice thing about what I found is that the slowly disintegrating horsehair padding is entirely captured within the seat sheel so there's no mess under the seats.
Q: What's the big relay for (the one under the driver side rear seat base)? see last pic. Car is a carb'd model from new, so no rear fuel pump.