ES 300 Tdi front seat removal

I know all you guys out there can rebuild a Disco with your eyes shut and one hand behind your back, so please bear with an old fart who has just bought his first metric spanners and fancies a bit of tinkering in retirement. I need to remove the driver's seat for rebuilding. I have found a local company who repair coach seats who say they can do mine for me. They have a nice piece of leather about the right colour. Only problem is that Land Rover for some reason used a weird nut on the rear seat base. I believe that is 'progress.' Is it called Torx? If so, where do I find the correct spanner/wrench to get the blooming seat out?

Lol. Most motor factors, even halfrauds. They are indeed torx , Satan's screw.

Thanks, KJ. I shall instigate a search next time I'm in Wrexham. Curiously, McDonald Land Rover in Oswestry don't keep them.

You could try online. I confess that I do not have any decent large torx bits in my toolkit either, I can guarantee that there are none on my series 1 (the disco and 110 however are a different matter!)

I remember getting the electric motor pack out from under the seat of a previous ES 300 I owned, that was a bugger to do, can't recall whether I took the seat out. Turned out that despite cleaning all the Contacts out in the switch unit that that was the issue and a new genuine LR unit fixed it.

Whilst I originally thought electric seats were fun I find them a pain when you have to wait an age for them to motor backwards after the missus has been driving.

Use an Allen key

I purchased a small set of Torx bit set with a 3/8 adaptor a few years (ebay), seat belt points and the sunroof also use them as well as the seats and they are all over the place in modern cars so handy for the future.

Anyway u need size T50 for the seats.

Thanks, Chaps. Finally getting round to doing something about it, now the weather is improving. (My garage door is too low to admit Discos and the roof is asbestos, so modification isn't an option.) However, the people who are going to restore the seat have said they will remove it themselves, so all I've had to do is give the nuts a few squirts of WD40. She is due for her operation next Wednesday, so I may then be able to drive comfortably for the first time. Hallelujah! then she needs a new radio, most of the electric windows operate only when it suits them and the sunroofs - neither of which has ever leaked - need their motors and linkage sorting. The aircon has never worked but, heck, this is Wales so who needs aircon? Open the windows on hot days.

I removed the cooling fan two years ago and the temperature gauge never went above half way even in last year's warm Summer. And yes, I did fit a new thermostat in case the original was jammed open or missing altogether.

If your sun roofs don't leak I would leave them alone!!! Mine don't leak and I have disconnected the switch to stop any one trying to open them!!!

I hear what you say, discosrme! The roofs both worked when I bought it, two years ago, and there has never been a leak from that direction. Rain comes in under the doors and soaks the front carpets when the wind is very strong, but that's another issue. I have disconnetced the switch for the front sunroof and I don't use the back one because there's a catch somewhere in the linkage. It's a handy ventilator when the rear loadspace contains a big, black, wet German Shepherd!