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Old Dec 18, 2007 | 05:55 AM
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Lets talk seats

I'm looking to replace the bench seat in my 1985 truck and my original plan was to find a set of stock SR5 buckets. That plan has now been mentally round filed since most of the SR5 seats I have found are either the wrong color, torn up or look great, but the foam is ing the sack. I'm not really interested in trying to retrofit a seat out of some other make.

Which leaves me looking at quality aftermarket seats. Beard, Mastercraft, Corbueu and PRP. (Not interested in China crap bought off eBay or Autozone.

My requirements

Must have direct bolt in adapters.
Must use stock seat belts since I have no roll bar.

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Old Dec 18, 2007 | 06:03 AM
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I know you want bolt in, but civic seats will fit with almost no work (flatten the rear tabs and drill a couple short pieces of flat bar to reach the rear holes).
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Old Dec 18, 2007 | 06:13 AM
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What year civic? Just wondering because the 88-91 have a 13" width while '92 and up have 17" width. I've been perusing for seats as well so the later civic's might work afterall.
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Old Dec 18, 2007 | 10:22 AM
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How about reupholstering your old seats? Buy some foam, take the seat out, and use hog ring (you can get rings and pliers at ACE for cheap) to put it back together.
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Old Dec 18, 2007 | 10:35 AM
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not sure about your year, but i have a 91.

the 4runner bucket seats bolt right into it with NO modification.

I got some from a junkyard and they didnt match color either, but thats what seat covers are for.
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Old Dec 18, 2007 | 12:44 PM
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seats out of a chevy cavalier(2004) look good and easy to retrofit. The bottoms are really flat i justput some in a 74 bajabug(DD).I know you didnt want to fab seats but i got these at a junkyard for 75 bucks looked brand new
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Old Dec 18, 2007 | 01:17 PM
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You can get the SR5 seats recovered and refoamed relatively cheaply FWIW...
Corrola Supra seats will fit relatively easily I'm told and then you can have leather and so forth if you run a power supply the all the elec goodies will work also...
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Old Dec 18, 2007 | 02:15 PM
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Originally Posted by BluYot
What year civic? Just wondering because the 88-91 have a 13" width while '92 and up have 17" width. I've been perusing for seats as well so the later civic's might work afterall.
The later civic seats (like the 92+ you suggested) are supposed to bolt straight in after you bed the tabs on the rear flat.
Mine are 3rd Gen Civic (84-87). They bolted directly in to the front mounts after a slight tweak to the angle of the mounts. I grabbed a piece of 1/4" flat bar about an inch and a half wide and cut/drilled it to attach the rear holes in the floor to the rear seat tabs.
What they look like (sorry about the window in the way, my window reg fell apart that far down)

The retrofit part
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