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If only seats were L/R agnostic

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If only seats were L/R agnostic

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How much time and work would that save us? Tens of thousands of man hours, I'm sure.

For anyone who doesn't live/breathe Volvos, here's the explanation: driver's side seats wear out well before passenger sides... the leather.

If we could just swap driver's sides with junkyard passenger seats, life would be simple and easy. But it's not that easy to swap a L into the R driver's side.
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I have often thought the same thing,it would be nice!

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Post by abscate »

Who was that moron who thought that could work?

And who was that lady who saved the day, that fateful June?


The leather can swap of course, which is four seat removals, two installs , and four leather Swaps. Whew!
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abscate wrote: 25 Jun 2020, 03:38 Who was that moron who thought that could work?

And who was that lady who saved the day, that fateful June?


The leather can swap of course, which is four seat removals, two installs , and four leather Swaps. Whew!
Yeah,lol a lot of work, are they hog ring type?

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Oh yeah. You can do zip ties but make sure you buy long ones or you will have achy breaky fingers , 8 inch aren’t too short

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Post by callahanoffroad »

I really wish they were. I swapped the seats in my old Landy Cruiser left to right and once you got used to the seat adjustment being on the wrong side it wasn't too bad.
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