Changing the seats in an 11 seater troopie

Hi Ross, the reason you have not seen many of the 6 seaters as they came out as a special 75 series RV with stripes etc. Any of the bus companies will have places that make the bus seats, or go to a conversion place where they convert coaster type buses to campers, they wilkl have seats that already comply available, They are two seats or single and could be fitted to the troopy
Ray

I had a '93 model Troopcarrier (3 seater) which I had fitted with a
'Take 3' bench seat behind the existing seating. This must be done by an authorised installer to obtain the appropriate Compliance Plate changes. One important requirement was that the front passenger seat could be pushed forward by operating a modified lever accessed by people using the rear seating. There is no lever available on the market so I had to modify my own by reversing the original lever.

The original RV Troopcarrier passenger seat (front) pushes forward and then swings towards the center. I removed my original seat and fitted one of these RV seats and found it a big improvement. At a later date I then fitted 2 custom padded '75 series bucket seats and used the original modified lever protuding from the rear left of the passenger seat. This still allowed adequate space to alight from the vehicle.

I also made a small checker-plate aluminium step using the seat mounting points and the bottom seat-belt mounting bolt (passenger side). This prevented people slipping on the sloped vinyl floor immediately adjacent the rear of the passenger seat.

Something to be aware of is that three seater complianced Troopcarriers can never be fitted with the original side facing seats.

Hope this has been some help.