Seats - from other cars?

piper1st · Post by **piper1st** » Wed May 02, 2007 3:22 pm

Being Volvo 480 owners ... do we have any other seat options other than the obvious (other 400 series seats)?? I mean, can we take seats out of other cars and put them in the front of ours?

I've heard that porsche seats also fit in some VW's etc, so does anyone know if we have any options like this?

Just a thought?

98kellrs · Post by **98kellrs** » Wed May 02, 2007 3:28 pm

Well I know Cobra Imola bucket seats fit

However from experience with fitting the Imola, the 480's seat rails are different from more "standard" sizes. They are a fair bit (30mm) wider than the Imola's brackets which are designed for fairly standard use. This unfortunately left the seat hovering between the two mounting brackets until I found a way of bending them to fit.

Perhaps seat from other Volvo's may be ok, but volvo aren't really renowned for their amazing upholstery are they?

Amonra · Post by **Amonra** » Wed May 02, 2007 5:52 pm

we had a 360 GLE with velour seats which were heavy duty ones. with 20 years of abuse they never tore, only the velour lost some hairs

piper1st · Post by **piper1st** » Thu May 03, 2007 10:37 am

98kellrs wrote:volvo aren't really renowned for their amazing upholstery are they?

too true and exactly my point! Lots of these fancy cars get Recaro seats etc, but nothing like that in the volvo's huh?

vins480t · Post by **vins480t** » Thu May 03, 2007 10:54 am

Honda S2000 seats fit the original slides

piper1st · Post by **piper1st** » Fri May 04, 2007 2:40 am

vins480t wrote:Honda S2000 seats fit the original slides

ahh haa, fantastic ... it's just like getting the first word in the crossword ... so now we can see what other seats fit in a Honda S2000 and we're rolling!

So how did you come to learn this info Vins? First hand experience?

chris1roll · Post by **chris1roll** » Sat May 05, 2007 8:08 pm

piper1st wrote:
98kellrs wrote:volvo aren't really renowned for their amazing upholstery are they?
too true and exactly my point! Lots of these fancy cars get Recaro seats etc, but nothing like that in the volvo's huh?

Thats cos the volvo seats are orthopaedically designed, which is why they are so comfortable, especially in the big ones.

piper1st · Post by **piper1st** » Thu May 24, 2007 9:04 am

Does anyone happen to have 480 seats out their car and sitting handy? If so, could measure the following for me?

Distance Between the two rails

The length of the rails

The width of the rails

Would be appriciated.

Ross

Roo · Post by **Roo** » Thu May 24, 2007 9:57 am

I'm sure someone could help although you could probably get these measurements with some crawling about.

I'm currently waiting on a particular model of car coming into the local scrapyard as i think its seats wouls suit the 480 well. should be about the right size too. At the end of the day you can always fabricate new mounts. Its the seat dimensions that are important.
Have you got some seats in mind?

piper1st · Post by **piper1st** » Thu May 24, 2007 4:33 pm

I was hoping for seats which would involve as little fabricating as possible! I'm actually quick suprised that each car (almost) has different rails etc. How come there's no 'standard'?

Anyhoo, Vins was saying that seats from a Honda S2000 fit the same rails, not found any others tho ...

Honda S2000 seats ...

These seats are a bitty OTT for the 480 in my opinion, but they do look quite comfy?!

Roo · Post by **Roo** » Thu May 24, 2007 4:37 pm

You have a PM!

piper1st · Post by **piper1st** » Fri May 25, 2007 8:44 am

@ Roo ... cheers.

@ Vins ... can you tell us more about the Honda seats please? Are they the one's your talking about? How easy was the transplant?

pol · Post by **pol** » Fri May 25, 2007 8:48 am

I really like those seats.

pol

98kellrs · Post by **98kellrs** » Fri May 25, 2007 10:08 am

Yeh I think they'd look awesome in a Black Metallic 480, especially if the rear seats were leather too

Roo · Post by **Roo** » Fri May 25, 2007 10:33 am

I'm not keen on the integrated headrest type seats. I never liked the ones in K.I.T.T so thats probably where it comes from.

I have an idea for seats but want to measure up and check availability first. It would involve butchering a set of jaquard seats for the material to get the look right though.

5781848 · Post by **5781848** » Fri Apr 05, 2013 10:58 am

Nice seats! But I'm install to my Volvo 480 ES RECARO front seats from Opel Omega B, sorry don't have pictures of installed right now. One problem - to enter rear seats you need to roll front seat mechanism, they not from coupe, but I'm never use rear seat for passengers and for me it's OK. REACARO seats is realy wonderful!

Volvo 480 Club Europe

Seats - from other cars?

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