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Tim
| | Posted on Saturday, May 18, 2002 - 03:18 pm: | 
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Can jump seats from a discovery with rear air be used with a discovery without rear air ?
If so can the replacment panels be exchanged to fill in the holes left by the jump seats being removed? and if not are they expensive to buy?
TIM. |
Phillip Miller
| | Posted on Saturday, May 18, 2002 - 04:14 pm: |
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Tim,
This is a question that I can definitely answer! I purchased a set of jump seats from a salvage yard. They told me that the car didn't have rear air, but it did! The r/h seat is a straight match for the mouling from your current car. However the l/h mounting frame protrudes out about 18" more than the existing moulding. The major difference between the two moutings is that the l/h has a big frame, and the r/h one consists of just four small L-brackets. I would assume that somewhere you could order spare L-brackets for the r/h side and then you would also be able to use your existing moulding. If I can't find the l/h mounting brackets for mine, I'm going to go ahead and build a new moulding out of cabinet-grade plywood with some cubby-holes, etc. to store things like maps in and just replace the top moulding.
If you want to see what the area where you install them looks like I still have mine exposed and could take a photo and e-mail it to you.
Regards,
Phillip |
tim
| | Posted on Saturday, May 18, 2002 - 05:01 pm: |
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Thanks Phillip,
I would also like to clarify acouple of things.
Can the seats be installed with the same hardware but will just protrude a little further out than if they didn't have air or do I require totally new brackets to fit into my existing holes. also do you know how much a replacement panel would cost to replace the rear air panel right side?
thanks again for the input.......
Tim |
Phillip Miller
| | Posted on Saturday, May 18, 2002 - 11:08 pm: |
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Tim,
The l/h one is the one that is different when you have rear air. The Disco Series I has all the mounting holes drilled into the body panels (covered with little rubber bungs) for either the rear-air equipped or standard rear mounted seats.
I don't think that you would be easily able to replace the moulding on a disco I not-air-equipped with that from a disco I air-equipped. The reason for this, as I understand it, is that the l/h rear air has a different alpine window pane which serves as part of the duct work for the air conditioning. This would mean that the entire panels on the l/h side would need to be replaced, not just the lower half beneath the speakers which is the piece that you remove for the addition of the seats.
On the r/h side, all you have to do is cut your existing moulding to make space for the two L-brackets which affix to the r/h side panel of the vehicle. There are two additional brackets which affix to the floor which are required on the r/h side which require you to cut holes in the carpeting.
The l/h side frame fixes to both the floor and the l/h side panel of the vehicle and, I assume, would straddle some piece of air-conditioning equipment (probably a blower or something) if the car was air-equipped in the rear.
I would search for brackets that could be used on the l/h side. I believe that when I asked my dealer about brackets that it was about $90 for a set.
Hope that helps!
Phillip |
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