850 automatic gearbox for sale

Smudge - with the interior do you have the seats? let me know cheers

Smudge - please send pics - and thanks

It looks like there's a button just in front of where the seat belt clips in, is this the additional lumber support? I've never seen this option actually fitted to any seat of an e31

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thats actually the heated seat switches.

Oh I've never seen them there before

They were in this location prior to the facelift for MY 1993 (the switches specifically even before MY1992). You can see the pre-facelift status of the seats also in the following: non foldable rear seats, black plastic guides for seat belt (chromed from MY1993).
During that time the lumbar adjustment was part of the horizontal/vertical alignment switch. Later a lumbar switch of identical shape to the heated seats switch was used in said location.
The rear seats will be an easy fit only for pre MY1993 cars. Others´d have to remove & replace the parcel shelf and more.

Cheers
Reinhard

Pete, I have sent you mail regarding the seats they look just the thing Iam looking for, get back to me.

One question they look like silvergrey 0353 is this correct?

Thanks again

Steve

If we can do a deal I will pick them up

Reinhard Can I take it that these seats will fit into my 1992 850 without a problem?

It depends. MY1993 began in Sep 1992. Along with this came the designation Ci. You call yours a Ci - has your car been produced in or later than 9/92? Do you have foldable rear seats? If no Smudge´s set is the one you are looking for.

Cheers
Reinhard

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Later a lumbar switch of identical shape to the heated seats switch was used in said location.

Do the seats come with the lumber supports inside so it would be possible to retro fit this lumber support to the later sport seat?
I take it #8 is the switch in question?

A quick comparison of the basic & sport seat on realOEM show that the later sport seat didn't come with the lumber support then (#10)

Basic Seat


Sport seat

The lumbar support is in fact a number of things. What is pictured in the EPC is only a generic picture and does not explain the one used in the (later) E31s.
I cannot speak for the ones in use up to MY1993 as I have not seen one of those yet.

In other BMW series of that time the Lumbar support was a mechanical twisting pad.

In the (later) E31 it is a bladder that is pressurized/depressurized by a pump (in a bag) located shoulder high in a recess of the plastic frame.
It can be accessed once the seat back has been removed.

This is a somewhat similar set:

Sports seats can be retrofitted with lumbar support. The wiring is in the seat. It has been done but is a PITA.
Sport seats have never been offered with lumbar support - maybe sports and lower back pain did not go together marketingwise

The switch pictured in the EPC ain´t (quite) the one and the picture is misleading.
For the early E31s the lumbar adjustment was integrated in the seat back tilt lever (had this wrong above) and looked like this:

Pic taken off 91 US instructions found on http://www.wuffer.net.
One needed to push the button down and then either twist fore or aft to move/inflate the lumbar support.

This is taken from a late user´s manual and shows (nearly :D) what the switch looks like from MY1993.

You ought to find one or the other depiction in your car´s instruction book - possibly located in the glove box

Cheers
Reinhard

Thanks for the explanation Reinhard