My new interior + Buckets and Harnesses!!!!

Post by **340GLT** » 10 Nov 2006 01:44 am

Right i havent posted in a new topic in a while so i thought i would let you know how the car is going!!! i bought a Pair of Reclining buckets from Ebay a while back and they were delivered from Belgium with material to re cover the rear seats to match. Very pleased with the seats and very pleased with how easy Volvo made it for me to change them!!!
I dont know how other people have fitted buckets to their cars but These seats have standard spaced mounts underneath and to fit into the car all i did was remove the runners from a standard pair of seats, knock out the peened threaded inserts, elongate two holes bolt to seats and bolt to car!!! Seats were in in 15 mins!!!
The rears have been recovered with covers my nan very kindly made for me!!! Look very tidy, need to steam the creases out that all.
I have also fitted a pair of harnesses to the car, although the pass harness has a double release on it so you can still access the back seats, this aloows me to have three people in the car including myself.
Anyways i have included some nice pics of the car after it had a good clean!!!
Adam

Post by **jarlidge** » 10 Nov 2006 11:21 am

seen adam's car the other day and it looks very smart with the black interior.
well done adam

Post by **SteveP** » 10 Nov 2006 11:36 am

Very smart - tidy job as usual

Post by **classicswede** » 11 Nov 2006 10:42 pm

Looking good.

Adam your car keeps getting better and better.

Post by **340cbr** » 11 Nov 2006 11:00 pm

Almost perfect! Only need to change the engine

Post by **Ali** » 13 Nov 2006 11:12 am

Wahey thats better mate, they feel much lower than the standard seats?

Post by **340GLT** » 13 Nov 2006 04:42 pm

Just a bit!!! lol
Adam

Post by **Fuse** » 13 Nov 2006 05:04 pm

Very nice! I'm usually not a big fan of bucket seats, but those look REALLY good! Fits with the rest of the car really well. Good job!

Post by **sven360** » 13 Nov 2006 06:07 pm

Nice

Are those 3 pt harnesses?
I put some in mine to go up to Scotland but mounted eyebolt to existing rear seat mount bolt but gives bad angle for the belt as they are too central and the belts are at an angle-no prob for scrutineer but I didn't feel they were v comfortable

Did you put in new mount holes?

Post by **340GLT** » 13 Nov 2006 09:45 pm

Cheers for the comments guys. I dint want it to look to in your face so i stuck to black seats and belts.
Yeh they are 3 point harnesses, and i have used the existing rear mounts, the ones the lap belt mount to. Mine are very comfortable, is it possible that the eyelets in the seat could of been different heights?
Adam

Post by **sven360** » 14 Nov 2006 10:22 pm

Don't think so more case of rear eyelets being too central thus causing belts to run at angle-I'll check at some point-too cold tonight despite all this global warming but that's another story

Post by **340GLT** » 15 Nov 2006 12:02 pm

Ah you mean the belts run into the centre of the car not the centre level with the seat. Later cars with lapbelts have holes there.
Adam

Post by **petavius** » 16 Nov 2006 01:44 pm

Looks great Ad - well done ... again on another tidy job! Hope all is well down there in sunny Swansea

Post by **bennett** » 16 Nov 2006 03:34 pm

just need the BIG engine???

Post by **petefarrell360** » 16 Nov 2006 07:47 pm

Looking good mate, certainly different from the standard 300! Nice touches.
Pete