GU Front seats?

V8,

After market seats are not cheap, but if you do any amount of driving and suffer at all from a crook back, they are worth it.

When I brought the Troopie it started out as an ambulance. The front seats where change to Paratus. ARB stock them. The seats are not cheap, I think mine cost $1500 each.

The fact that I have started a trip with a crook back, so bad that I had trouble getting in the vehicle, and 4 hours latter when I stopped for fuel, jumped out of the vehicle and didn't notice any discomfort at all.

I will not go so far to say that the seats are a cure for all back pain but in tis case it sure did help me.

Stratos seats are the bottom end of the market (no pun intended) price wise,throughto Recaro and Paratus.

For what it is worth if you only spend a short time travelling to and from work any seat will do , but spend a few hours driving and good seats will be worth every dollar.

Wayne

Don't know about fitting into the GU, but my old G60 had a pair of XE Fairlane bucket seats, very comfy and good support where you mentioned. May be worth a look
Rolande

In terms of height, I had the same problem in our GU. The solution Rex Gorrell Nissan had was to fit 40mm spacers and longer bolts. Very simple and very effective. They also fitted an inflatable lumbar support into both seats which improved comfort significantly. Perhaps an auto upholsterer can rebuild your existing seats which may not be too much cheaper but at least there isn't an issue with making something else fit.

Cheers

Adrian

The seats in my 1991 Nissan Pintara Ti (sold years ago) were brilliant. I could do 8 hrs in the drivers seat and have no back pain etc at all. They were a grey velour though so maybe not much chop for a 4x4 for durability.

Everyone who drove that car raved about the seats.

My GU 's seat died at about 70,000 km. I could discern the metal framework under the thigh & cheeks of you-know-what. Quite uncomfortable after a few hours.

Got it re - amed/stuffed at a local motor trimmer in Norwood, Adelaide. OK now - cost about $ 180, I recall.

Better solution for ME than an aftermarket seat.

You could try a later model GU, ST that has the height adjuster on the side. It has the ability to raise the seat squab by approx. 25mm. That may not sound much, but does make a significant difference to position and driver control. Trouble is, they are like hens teeth from a wrecker so you do need to scrounge around. The Pintara seats, being Nissan also, may be worth a closer look too.

Thanks folks.

Any money you spend on good quality seats will be worth it.
we bought a pair of Scheel 201's in 1979, seven 4wd's later and 25 years they are still comfortable , have been rewebbed once and had new side cushions once but otherwise are original.
They are similar to Recaro's, people said we were mad to spend so much ($260 each from memory, but was a lot in 79) on seats but they have been worth every cent.

Finding one that will just "bolt in" out of another car will be almost needle in a haystack.

Your best bet is some form of aftermarket seat.

Check Autobarn, they have the Autotechnia seats for about $220each new. They arent bad, but they are NO Recaro..

Buy some second hand Recaros, or similar. Or just get some out of a Jap import, and fit them up, I did that with my rodeo yrs back.

Or maybe goto a Honda/BMW wrecker and buy some Recaros(thats what BMW use on lots of their models) and buy a base kit from Autobarn etc to mount them up,