Bucket seat fitting.
03-22-2017, 01:52 AM
#2
Its a PITA to fit.
Space is tight and you will need to have everything nipped up, but not too tight so you can adjust in car. Then while in car, need to try and nip them up a bit tighter before removing and fully tightening up.
I need to re-do mine as the runners must be slightly out of alignment, meaning the seat is locked in place and wont slide freely.
My advice, take you time. Don't try and rush it and be very careful with the seats when putting in and removing. Easy to catch a bit of interior trim or body work with the metal rails.
Good Luck
Space is tight and you will need to have everything nipped up, but not too tight so you can adjust in car. Then while in car, need to try and nip them up a bit tighter before removing and fully tightening up.
I need to re-do mine as the runners must be slightly out of alignment, meaning the seat is locked in place and wont slide freely.
My advice, take you time. Don't try and rush it and be very careful with the seats when putting in and removing. Easy to catch a bit of interior trim or body work with the metal rails.
Good Luck
03-22-2017, 02:55 AM
#3
Its a PITA to fit.
Space is tight and you will need to have everything nipped up, but not too tight so you can adjust in car. Then while in car, need to try and nip them up a bit tighter before removing and fully tightening up.
I need to re-do mine as the runners must be slightly out of alignment, meaning the seat is locked in place and wont slide freely.
My advice, take you time. Don't try and rush it and be very careful with the seats when putting in and removing. Easy to catch a bit of interior trim or body work with the metal rails.
Good Luck
Space is tight and you will need to have everything nipped up, but not too tight so you can adjust in car. Then while in car, need to try and nip them up a bit tighter before removing and fully tightening up.
I need to re-do mine as the runners must be slightly out of alignment, meaning the seat is locked in place and wont slide freely.
My advice, take you time. Don't try and rush it and be very careful with the seats when putting in and removing. Easy to catch a bit of interior trim or body work with the metal rails.
Good Luck
03-22-2017, 03:16 AM
#4
Bolt side plates to the seats. Should be OK to do them up tight.
Difficult bit is making sure the rails are straight, allowing the seat to slide.
So side plates to rail and rail to car should be lose.
Then with it in the car, adjust and tighten up as much as you can, checking often to ensure a good slide.
Once done, remove from car and fully tighten the side plates to the rails.
Then put back in car and tighten the rails to the floor.
Sounds easy, but not so, as there is VERY little room to reach the fixings when the seats are in the car.
Hope that makes some sense.
Difficult bit is making sure the rails are straight, allowing the seat to slide.
So side plates to rail and rail to car should be lose.
Then with it in the car, adjust and tighten up as much as you can, checking often to ensure a good slide.
Once done, remove from car and fully tighten the side plates to the rails.
Then put back in car and tighten the rails to the floor.
Sounds easy, but not so, as there is VERY little room to reach the fixings when the seats are in the car.
Hope that makes some sense.
03-22-2017, 03:34 AM
#5
I agree, its not a hard job just fiddly and a pain to get the runners working properly. In fact mine still don't. That's on the list of things to do in the summer 
Last edited by har-vey; 03-22-2017 at 04:04 AM.
03-22-2017, 03:52 AM
#7
How I did mine was to make sure the seat was all the way forward as far as it could go on the sliders on both sides. I then installed the seat (where only the rear two holes for the bolts were accessible / visable), bolted the seat down finger tight and then slid the seat back to access the front two holes. I then torqued the bolts down properly.
By doing it this way, I didn't have to do any adjustment and the seat slides perfectly.
I used the eBay Buddy Club "copies" (actually better than the originals by all accounts, as the welds on the BC ones are prone to fail).
By doing it this way, I didn't have to do any adjustment and the seat slides perfectly.
I used the eBay Buddy Club "copies" (actually better than the originals by all accounts, as the welds on the BC ones are prone to fail).
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03-22-2017, 10:30 AM
#8
Also got the seat belt connector problem to deal with... Any suggestions on the seat belt solution?
03-22-2017, 10:09 PM
#9
Ouch! Hope you manage to sort out the sheared bolt. Know why it sheared? Was it tight (cross threading)?
As for seatbelt, I managed to relocate mine as I had custom brackets made, but believe Har-vey used the rear seatbelt buckles from an EP3.
I'm sure he will comment and confirm soon.
As for seatbelt, I managed to relocate mine as I had custom brackets made, but believe Har-vey used the rear seatbelt buckles from an EP3.
I'm sure he will comment and confirm soon.
03-23-2017, 12:38 AM
#10
Ouch! Hope you manage to sort out the sheared bolt. Know why it sheared? Was it tight (cross threading)?
As for seatbelt, I managed to relocate mine as I had custom brackets made, but believe Har-vey used the rear seatbelt buckles from an EP3.
I'm sure he will comment and confirm soon.
As for seatbelt, I managed to relocate mine as I had custom brackets made, but believe Har-vey used the rear seatbelt buckles from an EP3.
I'm sure he will comment and confirm soon.