Series seats

hi never actually sat in a series but wondering are the seats same as defender I'm talking about the rails now like they slide forward and back and recline or was that too comfortable for Landrover?

Oh you make me larf.
They started as vinyl covered hardboard then got foam but raised you up above the windscreen. They then got sliders but only went back as far as the rear bulkhead.
They then got high backs that pushed you up against the wheel.
If your six stone and five foot two you can travel up to ten miles without hospital treatment but don't try to depress the clutch before the hand brake is off or even a surgeon won't be able to replace your kneecap.
Uncomfortable, yes. Worse if your tall and impossible if your portly.
I am 6'4", have a few extra pounds added and have stuffed the biggest bucket seats available in the already volumectricly challenged cab.

It just depends how much you want to fit in it, rather than how comfy it is.

Bobsticle said:

Oh you make me larf.
They started as vinyl covered hardboard then got foam but raised you up above the windscreen. They then got sliders but only went back as far as the rear bulkhead.
They then got high backs that pushed you up against the wheel.
If your six stone and five foot two you can travel up to ten miles without hospital treatment but don't try to depress the clutch before the hand brake is off or even a surgeon won't be able to replace your kneecap.
Uncomfortable, yes. Worse if your tall and impossible if your portly.
I am 6'4", have a few extra pounds added and have stuffed the biggest bucket seats available in the already volumectricly challenged cab.

It just depends how much you want to fit in it, rather than how comfy it is.

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I feel sorry for you I thought I was bad but being that high up isn't a bad thing if I fit a spare wheel on bonnet

If you want comfort your better getting one with rear passenger seats. At least the front seats slide back to them. Short wheel based versions need to have the bulkhead behind the front seats removed and even that only gives you a couple of inches coz of the fuel inlet pipe behind the driver.

Bobsticle said:

If you want comfort your better getting one with rear passenger seats. At least the front seats slide back to them. Short wheel based versions need to have the bulkhead behind the front seats removed and even that only gives you a couple of inches coz of the fuel inlet pipe behind the driver.

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I don't want a series don't tempt me either I'm going to buy a lot of series bits in Peterborough and create a series/defender look series windscreen roof back of truck cab mirrors light surrounds etc I think series seats would tie it together reconsidering now though as battery is under seat and fuses

Evan farmer said:

I feel sorry for you I thought I was bad but being that high up isn't a bad thing if I fit a spare wheel on bonnet

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Don't bother fitting the spare wheel on the bonnet. It collects rainwater, it limits visibility and it makes the bonnet difficult to raise and insecure. The only good thing is that it looks good.

Col

Colthebrummie said:

The only good thing is that it looks good

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That is the whole point of fitting one to the Bonnet!

Colthebrummie said:

Don't bother fitting the spare wheel on the bonnet. It collects rainwater, it limits visibility and it makes the bonnet difficult to raise and insecure. The only good thing is that it looks good.

Col

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Never felt that it limits visibility to any notable degree. Maybe passenger side front corner but not too bad.
If you bend and lift with your knees the bonnet with wheel on it is easy to lift and if you use the solid round bonnet prop it's perfectly secure when raised.
The spare does prevent the bonnet going all the way back up to the screen though ( if you consider that a problem).
The spare on the bonnet does a lot to stop the bonnet rattling too!
Most of all though, IT LOOKS SOOO COOL!!

Not sure I would put series seats in a defender though.
That would be a huge retrograde step with no advantages whatsoever!
But, as I always say, it's your Land Rover so do as you please! And enjoy it!
Rich

Bobsticle said:

Short wheel based versions need to have the bulkhead behind the front seats removed and even that only gives you a couple of inches coz of the fuel inlet pipe behind the driver.

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I had a brief look into this and found that bulkhead removal wasn't possible with series, only Ninety's & One Ten's onwards. Do you know different?

"if you use the solid round bonnet prop"
that's the broomstick then?

RobertP said:

"if you use the solid round bonnet prop"
that's the broomstick then?

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It's a td5 so I have it wouldn't dream of using older prop uncle almost got killed thanks to it

to answer original question, the early coilers did have same seats as series 3

callisr said:

Never felt that it limits visibility to any notable degree. Maybe passenger side front corner but not too bad.
If you bend and lift with your knees the bonnet with wheel on it is easy to lift and if you use the solid round bonnet prop it's perfectly secure when raised.
The spare does prevent the bonnet going all the way back up to the screen though ( if you consider that a problem).
The spare on the bonnet does a lot to stop the bonnet rattling too!
Most of all though, IT LOOKS SOOO COOL!!

Not sure I would put series seats in a defender though.
That would be a huge retrograde step with no advantages whatsoever!
But, as I always say, it's your Land Rover so do as you please! And enjoy it!
Rich

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I'm not sure yet but do series 3 seats have removable bases
And do they slide my original question as series seats would tie my series3/defender project

Evan farmer said:

I'm not sure yet but do series 3 seats have removable bases
And do they slide my original question as series seats would tie my series3/defender projec

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They should have removable bases as series vehicles also have toolboxes under the seats and mine do. In my series 3 the drivers side slides back and forward but the passenger side is fixed. I do have the deluxe seats in mine though, so rather than being equivilant to sitting on a wooden plank they are equivilant to sitting on a wooden plank with a thick blancket covering it!!

dag019 said:

They should have removable bases as series vehicles also have toolboxes under the seats and mine do. In my series 3 the drivers side slides back and forward but the passenger side is fixed. I do have the deluxe seats in mine though, so rather than being equivilant to sitting on a wooden plank they are equivilant to sitting on a wooden plank with a thick blancket covering it!!

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Thanks great might buy the deluxe seats sounds posh for a farm truck so all three have removable bases how come your passenger one doesn't slide broken or standard

yep, all three have removable bases. I dont know why the passenger one doesnt slide, it is standard, it is just a fixed seat frame so never had the sliding mechanism. I guess becasue sliding seats are only needed so children can reach the pedals and there are no pedals on the passenger side.

deluxe series seats had sliders on outer two seats, square frame ontop which the seat base jammed into (standard on station wagons, factory optional on others) normal series 2/3 slab seat just had fixed brackets to hold the back rest in place, seat bases just plopped on top held in with gravity (so basically both typles still have removable seat bases)

1983 coilers had the same seats above caried straight over although county station wagons had high back seats which looked a bit like pre 2007 defender seats. in any case my bro inlaw has a TD5 XS and the seat bases are still removable

Colthebrummie said:

Don't bother fitting the spare wheel on the bonnet. It collects rainwater, it limits visibility and it makes the bonnet difficult to raise and insecure. The only good thing is that it looks good.

Col

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It makes pedestrians bounce and miss the windscreen....don't have to clean the glass then.

Extra downside, at over 20mph the draught round the wheel makes the screenwash miss the screen entirely.

Re the seats, the bases on deluxe models are loose in the frames, outer seat bases both slide. A couple of inches. If that. I'm 6'6" and was a lot rounder than I am now, to be honest I never had much of an issue, other than the wiper not reaching high enough up the screen..the inch at the top was just in my field of view.

Swapped the SIII handbrake lever for a SII one cos I was fed up with the lever going up my trouser leg, and also whacking my knee on it.

Usually drive with my right elbow out of the open window. All weathers...Series Drivers are HARD.

dag019 said:

yep, all three have removable bases. I dont know why the passenger one doesnt slide, it is standard, it is just a fixed seat frame so never had the sliding mechanism. I guess becasue sliding seats are only needed so children can reach the pedals and there are no pedals on the passenger side.

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I'm 5ft 2 so I fit in a landy perfect with the seat slid slightly forward in offroad situations
Series 3 seats on my wish list of downgrades to my td5 now

My series must have had deluxe seats at some point. the backs are all deluxe, as is the whole cetre seat, but the bases are just slabs. I suspect that the fact the backs of the seats are torn to shreds and have very little foam left (mice!) probabaly explains this. The driver's seat definitely slides, nowhere near to any useful degree though, and only really forwards, which is no use to me. I'm not as big as Big Sandy, but I'm pretty big. There are little rubber door stop things on the backs of the seats which I too off. Gained around an inch! Bases are all removeable.

My 90 is a CSW and has the posh seats. The bases are removeable on that as well. Well, the passenger side one does for sure. The battery is under it so I suppose t needs to.