Unless your rear seats were previously occupied permanently by large people, I'm surprised you notice much in the way of fuel economy gains just from removing them.
My Disco 2 almost always goes in with no rear seat. Has never failed yet. I believe he has to test what is there, but if you are bothered, take the rear seat belts out too!
I've owned and or looked after 4 discos, still have one and an RRC as well as the hippo, and the FL1 seats are by far and aways the heaviest. Put it this way, the hippo back seats have the middle seatbelt and buckle built into it, as well as the outer two buckles, with the outer two reels being on the C pillar as normal. However, by contrast,the Discos and by extension the RRC have their seatbelt furniture bolted to the floorpan. As such the hippo seats have to be sufficiently sturdy to keep the occupants restrained even though they have effective dynamic weight's of ~1,000kg in a head on crash scenario, so if you think disco seats that aren't seatbelt load bearing behemoths are hefty, you can imagine how hefty the hippo seat frame must be.
As far as I've seen on gov site, no. Just says if fitted to test belts.
The seat I am talking about, Disco 2 2000, has the whole of the middle seatbelt equipment all on it, plus the offside seat buckle. This is why the connection to the floor is so essential. The buckles do not come from the floor and through the seat base. so sorry but the Disco does NOT have their seat-belt furniture bolted to the floor pan. I can put up a pic if you wish. The strength for the central buckles is made by having big steel loops bolted to the floor pan to which hooks in the seat base connect. These are what release when you pull on the strap at the outer edge of the rear of the seat base.
No more than any other. Except the driver's of course!!
Sorry bud, I hadn't noticed it was a Disc 2 that you were talking about, I'm not familiar with them, but the way you describe them sounds mechanically very similar to the FL1 setup, including the integration of the buclkes into the seat and the use of the hard loops on the floor, so probably similar weights...
Maybe they never open the bonnet and look down!Any seats where the belts are attached is going to be heavy, simply because it has to withstand enormous loads in an impact.
Having removed many seats over the decades, I've experience a massive shift in weights of seats, from the 70s where rear seats were little more than a light weight mattress shaped to fit a car, all the way modern 8 motor front electric seats with integrated belt anchorages and 2 air bags, which are a 2 man lift as they're so heavy.
It's no wonder that modern cars are so heavy, as crash worthiness dictates items in the vehicle which keep passengers safe are super strong.
Slightly off topic, on another LR forum recently, there's been a thread about EVs, and how the tyres are more pollution than diesel (completely wrong) but the cause of this excess tyre wear is due to the weight of an EV. Now this forum is an LR forum, but it seems that most people on there don't have a clue about the weight of a modern LR, and then are pointing fingers at EVs because they've heard that EVs are heavy. I wonder how many would admit being wrong about this, if they were aware of just how heavy their beloved LRs are.
The car in question doesn't have the curb weight on the chassis sticker, only the MAM and train weight, and maximum axle weights.Maybe they never open the bonnet and look down!
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