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Re: Saab front seats
Posted: 27 Oct 2010, 14:37
by kevtherev
Yes they were.. the upholsterer filled them to look a bit more modern.
They feel like they were made that way, I can't tell that they are brown plastic underneath..All inclusive!!
Re: Saab front seats
Posted: 27 Oct 2010, 19:12
by foxley
That steering in the picture looks nothing like mine.
Is it smaller than the original?
Re: Saab front seats
Posted: 27 Oct 2010, 19:48
by kevtherev
Nope it's an optical illusion ..it's just fatter.
Just a caravelle steering wheel, same diameter or as near as damn it
Re: Saab front seats
Posted: 27 Oct 2010, 22:39
by toshT25
"I wouldn't call it grief"
Yeah no probs really, I'll probably go for saab (price wise and another thread?
(they're spot on actually, that blue van is a spitting image of mine) when I've a drive way to park on and a power source for an angle grinder and when I've also fixed the half dozen maintenance issues that need doing and the other half dozen glued temporary jobs I've already done lol.
I'm also just recovering from fitting an ortec spare wheel carrier the day before (sore muscles/ego) and a bloody stuck arm in the air vent ,arghh, 12 precision holes I had to drill with a rechargeable drill/300w inverter/? yeah it was easy, put it off 2 months thinking I'd have to rip half me wardrobe out until I poked around but it was grief until it was done.
btw I'm from Yorkshire
yeah lets not go there
Moan over.
Re: Saab front seats
Posted: 28 Oct 2010, 11:07
by ELVIS
Porsche tombstones are avery easy fit.
Drill out spot welds on old runners and remove them. Then just drill and mount rails for porker seats. Almnost exactly same width. Guess you could leave OE runners welded in and bolt thr them incase you ever wanted to go back to standard.
Re: Saab front seats
Posted: 29 Oct 2010, 19:22
by foxley
The steering wheel on Kevs van looks the dogs.
Where did it come from.
Re: Saab front seats
Posted: 29 Oct 2010, 20:29
by peasant
foxley wrote:The steering wheel on Kevs van looks the dogs.
Where did it come from.
Looks like it is the standard, smaller 42 cm diameter "thick" wheel that was fitted to vans with power steering.
The centre section (without the usual, ugly vertical strips) looks like the vanagon variant as fitted on US models (and some continental vanagons)
E D I T:
here's one currently on ebay
http://cgi.ebay.de/LENKRADABDECKUNG-HUP ... 3cb162cb7a
covered in leather, no less
Re: Saab front seats
Posted: 30 Oct 2010, 19:52
by foxley
The Saab seat I have are not like those on WiKi.
Thay are Saab 9-5 and the seat base looks different to the 900's.
Has anyone fitted my ones?
Any advice appreciated.
Re: Saab front seats
Posted: 06 Nov 2010, 15:31
by waltraud
Foxley. i have fitted saab 9-5 or 9-5 and best way i found was to take out anything in the way of just bolting unit to the floor or welding saab runners to floor. So i drilled out spot welds on old runners, but if you have angle grinder etc you can cut down the base on the saab seats to make them drop about another 40-50mm. T