Motor trimmer in Newcastle NSW

Hi Bob
I had the same problem as you, i found a motor trimmer here in Ballarat that cut my 3/4 seat down and I used the existing runners ,he did a great job,I think the cost was about $350.
Regards David

Bob

You may not necessarily need a trimmer to do it. It all depends on what is involved.

The photo below shows a pair of VN Commodore seats that I fitted to a Mitsubishi L200 ute five years a go. Mounting each seat involved bending two flat strips of steel, drilling eight holes and welding on four nuts.

Look carefully under the seat and you will see, bolted to the floor, a flat strip of 6 mm x 50 mm steel running from the back of the seat through to the front then turning down on an angle of about 45 degrees. There is a strip on each side of the seat and they are bolted directly to the floor with the original Mitsubishi bolts at each end.

The Commodore seats sit directly on the strips. You can see part of the two Commodore mounting spacers under the runners. The stock Commodore bolts pass down through the spacers and matching holes in the strips into nuts welded underneath.

That was all that was needed to mount them. Anyone who can weld could do it. If your seats could be mounted in a similar manner but there was more space under the strips, you would not even have to weld the nuts on. Yours might turn out to be as easy as that. You will have to check your car first then find seats that can be easily adapted.

One point to consider is you may need an engineer's certificate to satisfy the RTA if your car has been built to comply with any ADR rule that covers seat design and/or mountings. Even though the old L200 was a 1980 model, it did have to have a certificate.

Brian
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My suggestion is Out-of-Town 4WD at Barnsley. They did some work for me some years in rearranging seating in a Starwagon for me and were great. I pressume they still do this.