replace troopy front passenger seat
Submitted: Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 10:18
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david
I need to replace the painful front passenger
seat in my 75 series troopy.
any ideas ? How, where, cost ? would be very much appreciated.
I'm in the Queanbeyan area next to
Canberra. Thanks
Reply By: Member - Mal - Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 11:53
Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 11:53
David,
Have a look at 2nd hand VOLVO seats. I fitted one in to a HJ60 very easily and they are veeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrry comfy and supportive.
Mal T.
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Follow Up By: david - Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 12:09
Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 12:09
Thank you Mal. How about the belts ? What did you end up doing with them ? re-positioning involved ?
Thanks again DAVID
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Follow Up By: Member - Mal - Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 12:24
Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 12:24
David,
I'm not sure about your 75 but in the 60 series the left hand passenger
seat belt female end just pulled through the old
seat and I cable-tied it to the volvo
seat so it was easy to get at . I then made a centre console and the centre
seat belt just lived on the floor behind the seats.
Hope this helps.
Mal T.
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Reply By: ExplorOz Team - David - Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 12:28
Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 12:28
David,
We replaced our troopy
seat with some out of another car. We purchased the seats from a wrecker and then went to a welding guy (who knew about
seat positioning) who made up some brackets to utilise the existing holes and
seat belt system. We also then arranged for an engineers cert to cover the work off in case of accident/insurance. All up I think the brackets and installation cost about $100 and the cert was $150. You may not need or worry about the cert but this is your choice.
As far as installing this type of
seat is was perfect and we sat in these during our two years full time travel. Be carefull when you install them because there are all sorts of comfort issues related to the
seat height and the exact angle to the wheel etc. I was supprised to find out that most drivers seats do not run at 90deg to the wheel and pedels. They are slightly off set towards to door ie you are pointing slightly about 1deg towards to door. I am lead to believe that the height and orientation make a big difference to the comfort. (It worked for us).Regards
ExplorOz Team - David
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Follow Up By: david - Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 16:20
Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 16:20
Thank you. This
forum is bloody brilliant, I only asked the question today and have had answers already. Fantastic. I'll be recommending you whenever possible. Thanks again. David Preston
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Reply By: Troopie - Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 16:11
Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 16:11
G'day David
I looked at the second hand
seat option, but eventually went down the more expensive route and put in a new set of Aerotech seats (cheapest of the mainstream seats). They were supplied with all brackets and utilise existing holes. Fitting them took about 1 hour in total, but I screwed about with a few other things while at it.
I reckon second hand seats would be fine - but if you can afford it, and don't have time or want to hunt/muck around with second hand ones - go with something like the Aerotechs (no association with the company other than being happy with the service and product I recieved).
Cheers
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Reply By: david - Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 16:15
Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 16:15
Thank you. Can you remember approx cost ?
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Follow Up By: Troopie - Friday, May 23, 2003 at 15:26
Friday, May 23, 2003 at 15:26
G'day David
Can't remember exactly off the top of my head - but have the receipt at
home - will
check over the w'end and post it on Monday.
I got the 4wd model
seat with the air lumber support (driver and passenger) - I think I spent about $1500 in total (maybe a bit more - I bought them at the 4wd drive show in
Sydney and was going a bit beserk that day) - anyhow, the other half loves not being chucked about on the old bench jobby!!!
I should mention - the only thing I haven't sorted out
well yet is the passenger side
seat belt. Where you plug the belt in isn't supported, so it flops around between the seats when not plugged in and sometimes ends up under the
seat.
Cheers
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Reply By: Member - Tony- Monday, May 26, 2003 at 11:03
Monday, May 26, 2003 at 11:03
David
I have replaced the original seats with a pair of buckets out of a toyota corolla, don't know which model but they have adjustable lumbar support, neck support and the passenger tilts forward and I can access behind the
seat easy. Instillation was simple, with the seats out I bolted a piece 0f 25mm RHS with 4 bolts on top of the original mounts and the corolla seats sat on it and bolted to RHS on the opposite plane, and the inside rear mount located in the original hole, the passenger side is captive and needs to be drilled out. The outer rear mount needs to be fabricated out of 40x8mm flat. The solid type
seat belt mounts out of toyota car bolt in and stick up where you need, take your old one to the wreckers with you as there are two types of buckle. From memory the seats were about $200 the pair, hope this helps.
Tony
The Ghost
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