G8 rear seat

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Re: G8 rear seat

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Yours didn't come this way? :D
2011 Karma 9c3 never in service, Setina trunk tray, trunk floor mat, H&R springs, skid plate, leather shifter, g8 rear seats, tint, rear spoiler, side markers, Holden badges, shark fin antennae, capriceV trunk emblem, series ll & afm emblems, red tail tips, lighted vanity mirrors, black headliner & pillars, G8 light switch, red light window switches, g8 gas pedals, powdered coated colored hubs, g8 matching color steering wheel & color interior strips & center ring.
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IIRC, that's a one-year or two-year-only option to have those cupholders (early model? GXP-only?). They frequently break, so having an operational set is a plus.
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Only 2009.5 (latest production) G8s come w/ rear seat cub holders.
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I wanted to do the switch and ordered these off of eBay from a salvage yard. I installed them easily and liked the pull down access. However the seats no longer matched and that started to annoy me after a while. So I got thinking and went to a place up the road and we started shooting ideas and came up with taking the inserts of the ppv and sew them into the g8 upper seat back. Then I took the skin off the bottom bench seat and replaced it with the ppv on the g8 bench and poof! Looks like oem seats!
2011 Karma 9c3 never in service, Setina trunk tray, trunk floor mat, H&R springs, skid plate, leather shifter, g8 rear seats, tint, rear spoiler, side markers, Holden badges, shark fin antennae, capriceV trunk emblem, series ll & afm emblems, red tail tips, lighted vanity mirrors, black headliner & pillars, G8 light switch, red light window switches, g8 gas pedals, powdered coated colored hubs, g8 matching color steering wheel & color interior strips & center ring.
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But what is your armrest from? It does not look like the one LSX Jerry installed with the big fold down? Is that a year difference between 08 and 09? Or custom job? DO not think you detailed it anywhere before did you?
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Re: G8 rear seat

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It folds down. Why did you think it wouldnt? The sticker said VE g8 gxp 1/11/08
2011 Karma 9c3 never in service, Setina trunk tray, trunk floor mat, H&R springs, skid plate, leather shifter, g8 rear seats, tint, rear spoiler, side markers, Holden badges, shark fin antennae, capriceV trunk emblem, series ll & afm emblems, red tail tips, lighted vanity mirrors, black headliner & pillars, G8 light switch, red light window switches, g8 gas pedals, powdered coated colored hubs, g8 matching color steering wheel & color interior strips & center ring.
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AH now I see the seam in the second pic. Thought the back was one piece since I could not see the seam. DOH!
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Following.
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Guys,

Does anyone know whether the cloth/vinyl G8 seats ever came with the armrest as well as the folding center section/cupholders/writing desk, and the late-run extra cupholders in the center leading edge of the seat bottom, or were these features only found on the leather, presumably "upper trim" seats?
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SBRMD wrote:Guys,

Does anyone know whether the cloth/vinyl G8 seats ever came with the armrest as well as the folding center section/cupholders/writing desk, and the late-run extra cupholders in the center leading edge of the seat bottom, or were these features only found on the leather, presumably "upper trim" seats?
the cup holder in the seat bottom was only on the 09 1/2 cars , and then only in the 14 SS

the center folding arm rest/cup holder in the seat back was part of all the G8's , i think the leather int , had the smaller arm rest that folded out of the larger one
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