Metro seats again

Post by **Peetee** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:49 pm

A lot has been discussed on the subject of fitting front and rear Metro seats. I myself have written positively about this based on information I found on a certain other Minor site:
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2006-1/1 ... oseats.jpg
Whilst I have done this conversion myself for front seats
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2006-1/1 ... eatssm.jpg
now that I have obtained a rear set I can confirm that it is not a straightforward swap. The seat back is about 30mm too wide and as it is supported by a steel back it's not going to be a straightforward trim job.

Beyond this I have to find some way of bolting the seats to the rear panel and holding the base in place.

Post by SR » Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:48 am

seats look great pete, steve

Post by **jojax64** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 12:28 pm

Did the front seats go in without any type of modification?

Post by **Peetee** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:15 pm

I used Newton Commercial bases but it still wasn't straightforward. The seats wern't high enough and the runners were too far apart.

I've now removed all the brackets on the back of the rear seat and they still won't go in. The back will need some serious modification because the edge of the metal panel has a channel for the seat cover. he base is too wide at the wheelarch and the front corners do not match that of a 4 door Minor.

Post by **pskipper** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:04 pm

Looks great, I'm currently fitting seats from an old Nova to Rosie as with a simple front fitting bracket they bolt in Moggie Style and still give the 2 door tilt access. For the rear seat I've stripped off the Nova material from the seats, will unstitch it and re-fit it to her moggie back seats.

Wed May 10, 2006 2:01 pm

Provided a) you do not carry many people and b) you have a two door this solution worked for me..

The back rest became the base in my moggy, the seat cover comes off the back very quickly, I then screwed a piece of wood on to the metal back that butted up against the lip on the box section that the original seat sits on. Using wood has the advantage that you do not have metal to metal contact and is therefore quiet... nothing to do with the fact that I can not weld!

This leaves a small area at each end of the seat, I just made some little storage "cubby-holes" out of glass fibre to fill the gap.

The base of the metro seat then got ripped apart to form the back rest. I cut a piece of mdf up that fitted in the car, drilled holes so that the original bolts could go through and hold it all in place. I then cut the foam of the base to the new shape, pulled the fabric over and used a staple gun to hold it all in place.

The problem is that the ride in the back is not comfortable but as the car had no suspension travel and I can count the times I had people in the back of the car on the fingers of one hand this was not a problem.