landrover11019
Active Member
It comes up alot about fitting different seats to a 110/90 and losing the underseat storage.
Here's how I did mine. I am not saying I am an expert, or what I have done will suit everybody.
By pure chance I was chatting to a driver at work and he said he had just bought a rover 220 turbo coupe for the engine, I asked what the seats were like, and he told me that they were in good condition and half leather. A deal was done and I gave him £50 for the pair!
I had to do some minor modifications as the seats on their original mounts were far to high. I cut off the original mounts so that I was left with the runners and seats. I joined the seats to the runners with nuts and bolts, and then bolted the runners to some box tubing, and then bolted the box tubing to some 3mm ally plate.
It would of been alot easier if I had a mig welder, but is still do doable.
You can fit loads of different seats to a defender, but chose wisely, you don't want a seat thats to bulky. I'm 6ft and 17 stone and the rover seats fit nicely.
I wanted to be able to access to underseat storage and battery, so needed to make the seats easy to remove.
On your landy, you will have the L shaped lips that the original seatbox cover plates slide into, I used these but had to raise them slightly so that the new seat plate would slide under; in this photo you can see the L shape lip with a screwdriver tucked under it;
Some piccys of the seats mounted to their bases;
The seat base in place;
I had to come up with a quick release way of securing the front of the seats, so I used these;
Both seats slide forward and tilt;
Now on to the anderson leads. Most people mount the plug for the lead in the passenger footwell, however, I did'nt want to do this as you still have to open the passenger door or lean over to plug in the jump leads.
My sister got me a set of brand new anderson leads from bolt-on-bits for xmas, I asked her to ask for the lead to the battery to be 2 metres long.
The reason for this is because I wanted to mount the plug under the bonnet for ease of access. I used Pclips to secure the cable to the chassis.
The new seats are very comfy and very supportive.
If I was to do it again, I would probably use saab or volve seats as they have flat runners.
Here's how I did mine. I am not saying I am an expert, or what I have done will suit everybody.
By pure chance I was chatting to a driver at work and he said he had just bought a rover 220 turbo coupe for the engine, I asked what the seats were like, and he told me that they were in good condition and half leather. A deal was done and I gave him £50 for the pair!
I had to do some minor modifications as the seats on their original mounts were far to high. I cut off the original mounts so that I was left with the runners and seats. I joined the seats to the runners with nuts and bolts, and then bolted the runners to some box tubing, and then bolted the box tubing to some 3mm ally plate.
It would of been alot easier if I had a mig welder, but is still do doable.
You can fit loads of different seats to a defender, but chose wisely, you don't want a seat thats to bulky. I'm 6ft and 17 stone and the rover seats fit nicely.
I wanted to be able to access to underseat storage and battery, so needed to make the seats easy to remove.
On your landy, you will have the L shaped lips that the original seatbox cover plates slide into, I used these but had to raise them slightly so that the new seat plate would slide under; in this photo you can see the L shape lip with a screwdriver tucked under it;
Some piccys of the seats mounted to their bases;
The seat base in place;
I had to come up with a quick release way of securing the front of the seats, so I used these;
Both seats slide forward and tilt;
Now on to the anderson leads. Most people mount the plug for the lead in the passenger footwell, however, I did'nt want to do this as you still have to open the passenger door or lean over to plug in the jump leads.
My sister got me a set of brand new anderson leads from bolt-on-bits for xmas, I asked her to ask for the lead to the battery to be 2 metres long.
The reason for this is because I wanted to mount the plug under the bonnet for ease of access. I used Pclips to secure the cable to the chassis.
The new seats are very comfy and very supportive.
If I was to do it again, I would probably use saab or volve seats as they have flat runners.
