Well after my aborted attempt at replacing the standard steering wheel with a golf one have tried my hand at a front seat upgrade. Got some Rover leather front seats last week. Good condition and real comfy. Made some adaptor brackets to fit the standard set base, admittedly a bit over engineered. Fitted the passenger side, looks great but when Molly climbed aboard we found they are about 5 inchs higher than standard and her head was almost touching the roof! DOH! Back to standard and its 2 nil to the old tub.He really doesn't like changes to the cab area. Its either forget the idea , make up some seat bases from scratch or work out a stepped adaptor plate to bring em down 3 or 4 inchs. What has anyone else done?
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Love the title S49 - it sometimes feels that way!
Don't give up bud....
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Rebuild the T4 seat, foam and frames using the leather upholstery and foam from the Rover donors?
Build a new base to suit the Rover armchairs and the new height but keeping the seat functionality.
A friend used large box section steel and built in an under seat storage drawer for tools
Good luck!
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Altered one of the seat bases Red kindly picked up for me so it should be 3. 2 in my favour right. Wrong! Its too close to the handbrake and Molly trapped her fingers releasing the handbrake. You could get used to it but what if theres an emergency ? So the van creeps ahead 3.2 Could redrill and move over but may already be close to the door.Anyone want a leather seat suitable for the nearside of the van on a converted base. I'm sure this van has it in for me.
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