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How are Those Expensive scheel-mann Seats Doing? (9-month review)

TL;DR - The new scheel-mann seats are doing fine. The jury is still out on whether they are worth it (and will be for several years, I think. These seats are definitely the most expensive mod I've done to the Tacoma. I don't often post photos of the interior of the truck, but when I do, people always ask me about the seats. I wrote up the entire saga of finding new seats - which, if you're looking for a more comfortable ride is probably worth reading - as well as the installation and my initial impressions of the scheel-mann…

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I Got New Seats

TL;DR - the new scheel-mann Vario R seats are good, but they aren't for everyone due to cost. I'm adding this entry just to be able to remove the item from my list of "unchanged / still an issue" below. For all the details on my new seats, you can read my post here: Replacing My Seats with scheel-mann Vario R. At the bottom of the post are my first, second, and third impressions after several thousand miles of use. I plan to do a "one year later" review as well... in about a year. There's no question that scheel-mann seats…

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I Need New Seats

TL;DR - After 21 years, my seats are worn out and I need to get new ones or refurbish the ones I've got. It was somewhere in the middle of these trips that I really started to feel my seat being worn out. Until then, I'd felt like the Tacoma seats were pretty good - especially with the Wet Okole covers, and definitely better than the seats we had in the 4Runner (which had 270K miles). Over time though, the foam in the driver seat has worn out, and while it is still in fantastically good shape - compared to…

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