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KZN185 Drivers Seat is Messed
Hi All,
I'm having an issue with the padding on my driver's side seat.
Some history,
-I bought the car in March 2012
-I Noticed the front right seat mount was covered up, a bit odd
Inspected the mount to find out that the bolt must have been pulled out leaving a whole where the floor fixing is, the gent sorted this out with an anchor bolt and about 12 washers which looked like he had already pulled through a few times further damaging the floor mounting point.
-I had a mechanic re-weld the metal back together and rebuild the mount by welding a low profile bit of 3mm C channel so it could be tapped and used to mount the seat properly again, almost perfect, maybe 3mm higher than before.
-throughout this time I've been developing a lower back problem, started about 8 months ago
-I recognized my car seat as the main issue, when seated I seems to be sitting facing around 5 degrees to the left off centre
-after a long and painful series of phone calls to the wreckers and dealers looking for a replacement seat I ended up finding a Motor Trimmer who spent an hour and repadded the seat recognizing that the right shoulder padding had caved and the padding was not in great shape.
-His work was a great improvement for around a month, but now the seat is sliding back into the same poor state.
Can anyone recommend a good solution to get this issue resolved?
i.e.
Somewhere I can get a new seat for my truck (hopefully not too expensive, ARB said they could put something in for around $2000, geez)
Somewhere I can buy the foam padding for my seat?
This issue has left me with a sore back for a long time now and I've run out of ideas that won't cost me a great deal of money.
Let me know if you need more info,
Appreciate your time,
Dan
The gent who owned the car before me was a large guy and he has made the seat very uncomfortable.
I'm having an issue with the padding on my driver's side seat.
Some history,
-I bought the car in March 2012
-I Noticed the front right seat mount was covered up, a bit odd
Inspected the mount to find out that the bolt must have been pulled out leaving a whole where the floor fixing is, the gent sorted this out with an anchor bolt and about 12 washers which looked like he had already pulled through a few times further damaging the floor mounting point.
-I had a mechanic re-weld the metal back together and rebuild the mount by welding a low profile bit of 3mm C channel so it could be tapped and used to mount the seat properly again, almost perfect, maybe 3mm higher than before.
-throughout this time I've been developing a lower back problem, started about 8 months ago
-I recognized my car seat as the main issue, when seated I seems to be sitting facing around 5 degrees to the left off centre
-after a long and painful series of phone calls to the wreckers and dealers looking for a replacement seat I ended up finding a Motor Trimmer who spent an hour and repadded the seat recognizing that the right shoulder padding had caved and the padding was not in great shape.
-His work was a great improvement for around a month, but now the seat is sliding back into the same poor state.
Can anyone recommend a good solution to get this issue resolved?
i.e.
Somewhere I can get a new seat for my truck (hopefully not too expensive, ARB said they could put something in for around $2000, geez)
Somewhere I can buy the foam padding for my seat?
This issue has left me with a sore back for a long time now and I've run out of ideas that won't cost me a great deal of money.
Let me know if you need more info,
Appreciate your time,
Dan
The gent who owned the car before me was a large guy and he has made the seat very uncomfortable.
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