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Offline Disco Matt

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« on: April 13, 2008, 16:49:25 »
I'm trying to make sense of the options for upgrading the cloth seats on my Disco. Obviously I'd like to go for a set of electrically adjusted leather ones from another Disco or a Range Rover Classic (IIRC the back seat bolts straight in and you can make a couple of adaptor plates for the fronts, am I missing something there?).

Main question is where are the seat controls mounted, and how hard is it to wire them up? I know there's a power feed wire under the drivers seat that isn't connected to anything but have no idea what it's intended to power.
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Re: Seats
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2008, 17:26:49 »
Hi

They are mounted in the sides of the center console on the Disco... In the side of the seats on a range rover...

You can get manually adjusted leather seats for a Disco. Much easier option IMHO



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« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2008, 17:47:48 »
Thanks - I was just trying to keep options open really as I'm likely to be prowling ebay on and off for the next few months for a set, and if I can get an electrically adjusted set that are in great condition and the right colour then I'd be willing to do the extra work to fit them. I'll bear in mind that I'd need the switches too if I found a Disco set.
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Re: Seats
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2008, 20:34:44 »
Switch location on a TD5
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« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2008, 21:05:28 »
Thanks - that looks like the photos I found of a TDI with them.
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Re: Seats
« Reply #5 on: April 13, 2008, 22:21:28 »
What colour seats do you want then? do you want RRC or Disco seats, Disco is obviously much easier to fit to a Disco but I wouldn't pass up a good set of leather just because they are manual.  The manual RRC seats have problems but not so with the Disco that I'm aware of.
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« Reply #6 on: April 13, 2008, 23:35:04 »
I'm thinking they'll need to be grey to look right, as mine has the grey dash. I would prefer a set of Disco seats obviously as that way I can get the folding seats in the boot to match, in fact come to think of it the extra thickness of an adaptor plate to fit RRC seats might make them a bit too high up for me.

So it's looking like grey Disco seats, manual or electric depending on what I can get hold of!
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Re: Seats
« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2008, 01:55:33 »
Good, so at least you know what to look for.  There are a few sets on Flea-bay now, one just ended for £150.

Unfortunatley I don't have anything to help you unless you wanted cloth RRC seats or beige Disco leather.  Shame.
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