Passenger seat to driver's coversion?

[AwakenNoMore]

Can it be done? There a mint passenger sport seat in the junkyard can I convert it with the hardware off my destroyed driver's seat? (Also a sport seat)

[bmwstephen]

simple trasnfer of upholstery. long story short, yes you can

[AwakenNoMore]

OK that is epic! I know what I'm getting tomorrow. By the end of the week everything but my headliner and dash will be in great shape.

[jrobie79]

is the headliner ripped? If not and you want to make it black check out colorbond products by bryndana, mine looks great 1.5 years later

[bastianshaw]

just bolt the pass seat in as is

[stamar]

Ya other than the seat belt the passenger seat works as is. In a way its an upgrade because there are slide backs on both sides.

[SHunter]

I opted to take the upholstery off of a nice passenger seat and install it onto my beat up driver's seat. This also gave me a chance to reinforce my bolsters where one of the welds had broken.

If you bolt a passenger seat onto the driver's side, you will end up with all the controls for that seat next to the center console and it will be difficult to adjust, not to mention looking odd.

Spend the time to do it right and you'll be much happier in the end. It's not too hard to do the upholstery but it can be a bit tedious. I would suggest buying a pair of hog-ring pliers. It will make it a lot easier. I didn't but I wish I had.

SH

[peytonracer4]

it can be done i did it. it was just a major pain in my ass. try to save as many hog rings as you can. you can remove them without cutting them (cutting them is pretty hard) but holding them with wire cutters and twisting.
i say this because i found out you cannot buy hog rings anywhere at all unless you buy them online. and it's hard to get sizing perfect.
also everything has to be swapped. you can't even use the back from the good seat because the tilt is on the wrong side. unless you have a sedan. then you might be able to just skip redoing the back and only need to do the bottom of the seat.
here's a diy that helps you take them apart. it's just one of many

http://www.esatclear.ie/~bpurcell/318isseat.html

[stamar]

harbor freight sells hogs rings and pliers.

[AwakenNoMore]

sadly i went back the next day and said seat was gone, just grabbed a pair on decent shape non sport seats. Sad day, pic will be up soon so everyone can see how bad the seat is that I'm replacing.

[rtwaits]

Subscribed! Interested to see the conversion!