Full Seat Replacement

[xusarmy]

I say we call Ryan @ West Coast Customs, I bet he could put it in.

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[timhood]

What I want is a 5th seat in the 2 door

The new defender even has a jump seat in the front (so the 2-door can seat 6! Now that is practical.)

Someone please figure out how to stick a jumpseat in this thing (or the dual bench seats in the back!

I know it won't be road legal, but for the once in a while squeeze it would be nice.

My f150 has the middle jump seat and it has saved us a few times.

2 Door Wrangler with rear jump seats

Old Defender

New Defender

I guess it depends on when/where someone would use that extra seat. It's no fun being behind the rear wheel unless you enjoy being bounced out of your seat all of the time.

 

[timhood]

I'd have to look again at pics but I'm pretty sure the rear seat is a single lower cushion. The seat backs are split to fold. I could be wrong. If the lower cushion is split it may be easier and/or less work fabricating mounts to get two new buckets set back there.

The two-door has fully-separate seat cushions--backs and bottoms. But that's not to say that they aren't both mounted to a common frame that may not have eight bolts in the ideal placement for them to be replaced by two separate seats like those Recaros OP showed.

 

[justinbmcbride]

They make modules for that ...

https://www.kohrmotorsports.com/product/ford-seat-airbag-bypass-resistor/

That was just a quick search but it's the same when swapping out a steering wheel with no bag, just trick it into thinking it's still there.

I just pulled the rear seats out of my 2-door, this looks like it might fit. I bought up two of them and will let you all know how it goes. Fingers crossed!

 

[1979]

For some reason I thought the airbags were in the trim along the roll cage (and not in the seats).

Don't ask me where I thought I read that though.

It’s not the actual airbags that are the issue. Modern vehicles seats have weight sensors in them that work together with the rest of the SRS system to deploy the airbags properly and safely.

No seat weight sensors, no airbag deployment.

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