OEM Recaro seats and Takata?
 

Anyone know if the OEM seats and seat belts are made by Recaro and Takata?

I was originally planning on swapping them out for some Recaro buckets but I've fallen in love with our seats.

obviously........not


Unless You live in Japan. They are option at dealer.

Takata could very well have made the seatbelts as they make a bunch of standard safety items for manufacturers e.g. the huge airbag recall of Takata airbags.

I think the stock seats are fabulous. You could always go with the SARD seat covers to spruce them up a bit.

I made a list of who makes what a while back. The seats are made by Toyota Boshoku and the seat belts are made by Tokai Rika.

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=71898

Thanks! I went looking for that list a while back but couldn't find it.

Is this Ero Gori? LOLOL.

If I remember correctly from their investor materials, Toyota is one of Takata's top customers. All of their cool racing stuff (like their fast and furious green 6 point harnesses) makes up a very small fraction of their total revenue. I'm not familiar with Recaro but I would imagine it's more or less the same situation for them too.

As @Bristecom pointed out, neither company is involved with this car. I remember hearing that the Takata Drift seat was designed for the FRS/BRZ, but That might have just been marketing sweet talk :lol:

The one and only :threadjacked:

Yeah.

The stock seats are brilliant. Whoever designed them was a genius. At first I thought the upper bolsters were too aggressive, but I later realized it was just the super sticky upholstery. Reupholstered in leather, they are perfect. Best seat shape ever. :)

I really enjoyed the oem seats that was in my previous rx-8

Am I the only one who read this in a Gay voice lol

Yes and to add to this to see the scale of operations, the Toyota Boshoku is a parent/founding company of Toyota Automobile Corporation, predating the automobile division by 20 years as a cotton weaver, textile, fiber manufacturing equipment and supplies producer.
They make or tasks with partners, bulk of the fabrics and composites used in Toyota automobiles, as well as other cars, public transit and infrastructures, apparel, aerospace carbon composite weaving and baking, and advanced research for microfibers in scientific fields and manufacturing too.
Toyota Bosho supplies carbon fiber fuselage and wing sub-components, along with Subaru, and also seats on many airliners, trains, and bus, and public stadiums and theaters.

Recaro is actually a competing brand that does similar things in Germany, but some of the Racing "branding" has been tied in collaborative marketing projects to produce periodic special items to market the cars, such as the seats in the Toyota 86 GRMN Special Editions, as well as past optional equipment TRD packages. The 14R60 and few other projects have been TRD branded and supplied by BRIDE JAPAN as well.

Takata is a closely tied company that is part of Honda family of companies today, and also supplies nylon fiber components to a huge number of firms in the automotive supplier side products, bulk of that being interior fabrics, original OE seatbelts, SRS airbags, etc. They supply about half of all airbags in automobiles around the world today.

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Toyota Boshoku (Textile Manufacturing) is the founding origin of Toyota, established long before the automotive division.
Today, this firm still operates as parent, founding company of Toyota, and produces fine automotive interiors, advanced composites, and a world of advanced materials for lots of different things from common household goods parts to aerospace industry components.
Another reason Toyota's car interiors are so nicely appointed on many models with top notch crafting and finish.
You can see this intersting history of Toyota at the following museum in Japan, if you are ever in Nagoya. It's a really nice place to see to learn about Toyota, and it's rich history in operation.

http://www.tcmit.org/english/

https://www.facebook.com/Moto.Club4A...89?pnref=story

There is a large Toyota Boshoka plant right next door to where I work in Woodstock Ontario.
It is sad to listen to some of the workers whining about how they are "forced" to meet high quality standards and actually show up for work.

There are some interesting reviews on the plant but my vey favorite is this:
"production work, mostaly the same work no matter whereyou go
they require and eye for detaila and for you to show up to work, if you can do that then your ok"

http://ca.indeed.com/cmp/Toyota-Boshoku/reviews

I see this is an old thread, but I'll add this...

All seat belts, regardless of manufacturer of the vehicle, should have a white tag attached, stating the manufacturer of that specific seat belt.


And yes, belts in my FRS are labeled Tokai Rika, as stated by Bristecom and Moto-P above.