Seats

Hi

I have had an ex-military 110 for 15 years and recently decided to repaint it. Which has turned into a total overhaul (apparently this a common problem with Land Rover enthusiasts!) so now I’m looking at replacing the military seats. I stupidly bought some BMW E46 seats as I’d seen on another forum that they fit, well they are too high! So now I’m asking the experts, which car seats have you successfully fitted into your 110s?

Thanks in advance

Personally I haven’t but there are a couple threads here recently about Mazda RX8 seats being a decent fit......

A good set of land rover seats. I know a lot of people complain about them, but just as many, me included, find them very comfortable. I have a set from a TD5 which I have replaced the foams on and find them to be incredibly comfortable, far better than the ones in her sirocco.
I have done some very long distance in them and got out the other end with no problems. Last year heading to morocco I did 1500 miles in two days each end of the trip and was quite happy in the standard seats.

I’ve been looking at the previous threads about seats and I like the idea of rear Range Rover seats, so that I can get three of us across the front. Anybody out there got any hints and tips about which ones and how to fit them?

(As much as I’ve had the Landy bug all my life and have owned this one for 15 years, I’ve never done anything to it! Any help I can get is very welcome!)

SelenaRGJ said:

Hi

I have had an ex-military 110 for 15 years and recently decided to repaint it. Which has turned into a total overhaul (apparently this a common problem with Land Rover enthusiasts!) so now I’m looking at replacing the military seats. I stupidly bought some BMW E46 seats as I’d seen on another forum that they fit, well they are too high! So now I’m asking the experts, which car seats have you successfully fitted into your 110s?

Thanks in advance

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This video from the guys @ Tirsbaek shows them installing some well priced heated seats. They seem to fit well with the only problem being that it is a bit harder to get to the battery box. Alternatively mazda rx8 seats are quite common.

Mazda rx8 seats are easy to fit and only 100 quid a pair.

As above, a good set of TD5 seats. I’ve done over 400 miles in a day and got out feeling fine.
Temporarily deaf, and with a wet leg from when it rained, but l could still walk.

Thanks guys, I’ve bought the RX8s, just got to fit them now!

Any chance of some pics as you do it?

I can try!

SelenaRGJ said:

I can try!

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Just buy a disposable camera, take pictures as you go, and get them printed. Then take pictures of the photos on you mobile device and upload then.

I think that should work.

For I could take pictures on my 1980s camera, have them developed as slides, project them onto a wall, take pictures on my mobile device and find a way of uploading them to this site.

I will try to take helpful pictures, not ones of arses hanging out of doors and the finished product! Which would be what I normally would do, however engineering pictures might happen too!

Sounds good to me

Upgrade the original seats to old park benches. They add character and can be found for free.

Hippo said:

Upgrade the original seats to old park benches. They add character and can be found for free.

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Trust da Hippypottymouth to come up wiv summat like that!
Speshully wen the cast iron starts to rust an spreads tinworm evriwear coz they've bin lefted outside in the athmos-peer and develupt orl sorts uf diseeezez!
But the doors'll never fall orft in the rain!!

Oldseadog said:

Trust da Hippypottymouth to come up wiv summat like that!
Speshully wen the cast iron starts to rust an spreads tinworm evriwear coz they've bin lefted outside in the athmos-peer and develupt orl sorts uf diseeezez!
But the doors'll never fall orft in the rain!!

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Only use park benches made out of wood only. Treat the wood with ronseal and it will outlast yer tratter.

Hilarious!

Ow I’ve posted another beginner question on a new thread!

Right here you go:

We’ve (I use it in the opposite way to the Queen where she means ‘I’, when I use ‘we’ I mean ‘someone else’! ) only fitted the drivers side.

So we cut off all the sticky out bits on the bottom apart from the gold nut. See picture.

We then put it in the Landy. I decided that I needed the height that comes with mounting it on the old rails with the squab as high up as possible. It has electric front and rear squab alteration up and down, electric rake and forwards and back. With the rail height as it is, the squab can go it’s full range to the lowest so my brother will be able to drive it comfortably too.

So we welded the rails to the original rails with a spacer at the back to compensate for the gold nut and to clear the ridge at the back. See picture.

Passenger seat to be done at a later date at it has different challenges. It’s a manual seat so no electric motors to worry about but access to the battery needed.

The plan is to run the wires from the seat into the cubby box and put rocker switches on the front of it to control the seat adjustment. By the ‘we’ in the picture!!

Next challenge I’ve given him is to fit Disco 2 jump seats into the back of the 110 in the picture, any tips welcome!