Beemer Lab

If you're swapping seats round or retrofitting, then you will want to keep electric movement functions and may even want to retain the h...

In 2013 BMW changed the floor-pan layout of the F10 5 Series to accommodate X-Drive, Hyrbid-Drive and stuff, which in turn makes the fitmen...

The original parcel-shelf was in a sorry state, with several rectangular slots cut in it where Police lights had been fitted. The two in the...

Managed to find the right pre-2013 front seats on eBay to replace the incorrect fit ones [ https://beemerlab.blogspot.com/2017/05/f10-530d-b...

Swapping seats round in a BMW E21 3-series is a nightmare, thanks to the floor-mounts being two different heights. To fit level-based seats ...

After my disastrous few weeks I managed to get hold of a Bilstein strut-insert and get it onto the car along with the longer springs, meanin...

Stock fit works, but leaves big gaps. As with the front seats I used HSVTurbos build [ here ] as a rough guide. His rear bench-seat is the a...

Saw these absolutely divine Recaro sports-seats from an early E30 Baur cabriolet on eBay. They're all but identical to the Recaro/sports...

I'm all for keeping things so they can be converted back to stock later on, but fitting seats with the E21 base-mounts is a nightmare. O...

Had a go at fitting the passenger Recaro seat, this time using the Ford sub-frame and slider instead of the BMW one. The driver's seat I...