355 Disintegrating Seat back levers 'crazy pricing'

Prices are going up across the board as recently announced by Ferrari apparently.

Good luck. Might just have to eat it.

 

Here's one for £22

https://www.superformance.co.uk/355/fittings.html

You have 3 seats?

 

There are 2 on each seat for B and GTS

 

I think the community will move towards 3D printing significantly in the coming years with the price & availability of a lot of parts making it more and more worthwhile.

 

I also am looking for a LH one of these, if you have the ability to draw it up in CAD I have access to 3D printers if it helps.

 

For my 355 spider, I bought a set of aluminum levers from Carnutdallas, they are black, gorgeous and won't wear out or disintegrate - ever. Maybe see if he's still manufacturing them.

 

I just broke one of these what a **** part.

 

I think he is looking for ones for a GTS or B. I was able to find 2 new ones from ferrari about 3 yrs ago and am very careful to grab them closer to the pivot to avoid cracking the rubber covering. Just a bad design.

 

Yeah, I have 2 original "spongy type" new ones for my spider, I keep them wrapped in bubble wrap in a box of spares since they are as rare as unicorns.

 

I think I'm going to start buying two of every part that I replace. Just sucks that a lot of these are going either no longer available or doubling in price.

 

That's exactly why I replaced just about everything in my car. Then most of the old parts I put back in the new boxes and stored them. Current parts on the car aren't going to get better with time and they're going to get harder to find.

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Quite a few things I've purchased in the past few years are now nla.. I literally just bought a shifter housing gasket earlier last year, now they are no longer available. A few years back I bought the clear euro turn signal indicators for like $150 a piece brand new from Ferrari, now they are impossible to find for $600 plus to mention a few

 

Hello Dayan
Can you post your 3d print file? I created one last week for the shifter gasket part 159389 and posted the file to the thread here: https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/posts/147919528/.

This will allow other members to refine the file or send it out to a print service if they do not have a 3D printer. We need to start building an archive of these files as the parts become NLA.

 

As mentioned previously, the 355 seats are the same as those found in many other 1980s/1990s cars such as the Ford Sierra Cosworth, Escort RS Turbo etc. These seats are made by Recaro and are called LS-C (1980s Recaro seats were modular so the backrest has a code such as LS or LX depending on the shape of the side bolsters, and the base has a code such as B or C which denotes the style, so for example the 355 style seats have an LS backrest and a C base thus giving a LS-C, the VW Golf GTI Mk2 optional Recaros had an LS backrest but a B base, so were called LS-B etc etc). These ranges of seats are also often generically referred to as Expert / Specialist or N-Joy. Spare parts for Recaro seats are available via a Recaro dealer, this company in the UK have the levers in stock and they seem to be a genuine Recaro part and aren't very expensive:

https://www.capitalseating.co.uk/backrest-tilt-release-kit-2

This company also have other parts available such as various handles/base webbings etc. If you require any replacement foams for these seats they are widely available either via a Recaro dealer or a few suppliers on Ebay, if you just look up "Recaro LS foams" you will find something. The side foams for the base are available, as is the centre base foam, seat base extension foam and centre backrest foam. Unfortunately the side bolster foams on the backrest don't seem to be available but this may change in future as Recaro have recently started manufacturing these seats again.
https://www.recaro-automotive.com/en/classic/recaro-classic-ls

Hope that's of some use....

 

Wow. Superb info.

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/154477374640

 

https://www.pro-touring.com/threads/84738-Recaro-Seats-Parts-Restoration