Front seat fitting

A fairly straightforward task for the period between Christmas and New Year; fitting the new captain's seats.

First off, a quick goodbye to the old twin seat, you won't be missed.


Then onto removing; a simple case of unbolting the eight bolts holding the twin seat in place and removing the four that won't be needed for fitting the single seat:


Take this opportunity to clear up all those pasty crumbs!

Then onto removing the driver's seat. We split this one from the base so as not to upset the handbrake and all the wiring/gubbins underneath the seat.


We then split the passenger seat from it's base to sandwich in a Sportscraft swivel base. German quality, TüV approved, these can be purchased from a wide range of motorhome suppliers, ours came from Bluebird Customs.


One thing to note is that the holder for the various bits of wiring underneath a twin seat appears to be different from that of a single seat. With the help of a handy little L-shaped bracket made by JC of JC Motors (seen in the picture above), we were able to remount the existing wiring bracket without too much head-scratching.



Then it's just a matter of bolting everything back together and, hey presto, two comfortable seats with arms, a swivel-base on the passenger side and that much-needed walk-through gap in the middle.

The twin seat and single driver's seat are currently for sale, get in touch if they are of interest.

UPDATE: Now sold.