Convert car seat to office chair

aidanki

was watching a few reruns of topgear last night, and I see that the lads chairs are converted car seats

so anyone ever done it in practice, how did it turn out?

can't see why it wouldn't make a pretty comfy office chair?

next step up would be a seat from a car that has a massage function, but anyone ever done it with a conventional seat?

ironclaw

Recaro do office chairs but they arn't a clone of the racing versions. They'd actually be rather uncomfortable if they were. Best one's I've seen are the Harrier Jump-Jet ejection seats and associated office furniture. Looks very cool but completely unpractical.

If you knew someone handy with metal work and you did the wiring, no reason why you couldn't take a nice S-Class seat and make it into an office chair.

dutopia

I wonder if I could take out my Focus leather heated seat with electric adjustment, that'd be lovely.

aidanki

ironclaw wrote: »

Recaro do office chairs but they arn't a clone of the racing versions. They'd actually be rather uncomfortable if they were. Best one's I've seen are the Harrier Jump-Jet ejection seats and associated office furniture. Looks very cool but completely unpractical.

If you knew someone handy with metal work and you did the wiring, no reason why you couldn't take a nice S-Class seat and make it into an office chair.

Im actually handy enough at the metal work myself, it should be easy only wondering before I go off and get a comfy car seat for myself

Voodoomelon

Some inspiration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aWYOwyDn5g

aidanki

dutopia wrote: »

I wonder if I could take out my Focus leather heated seat with electric adjustment, that'd be lovely.

are the heating and cooling embedded in the seat or are they seperate

Muckie

Did this last year with an office chair.

Had two spare front seats.

Their not cool leather or Recaros, but still



Have a spare passanger seat if you want it

MAJJ

snapon also have chairs, pricy I imagine.

MAJJ

Nice job Muckie.

Muckie wrote: »

Did this last year with an office chair.

Had two spare front seats.

Their not cool leather or Recaros, but still



Have a spare passanger seat if you want it

aidanki

Muckie wrote: »

Did this last year with an office chair.

Had two spare front seats.

Their not cool leather or Recaros, but still



Have a spare passanger seat if you want it

spill the beans how difficult is it to do?

simply get a flat plate (timber even) and drill holes such that both the swivel bit and the original seat mounting holes can both be bolted to it

how come you didn't adjust your mounting plate so that the seat base is flat like a regular office chair?

the culture of deference

I meant to remove the front and rear seats from my 75 before I scrapped it.



The back seat would have made a lovely bench seat in the shed

Muckie

Took about an hour all in.

Nice plate on the office chair, and the car seat sat nicely on it.

Did a small bit of tack welding(careful not to burn the seat).

I'll take a fe pictures when i get home and put them up.

Highly recommend it.

mb1725

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Muckie

Hope that helps

aidanki

looks good, think this might be a nice little project for me

I wonder whats the best seat to go for as a starting point?

I will somehow have to add armrests to it, keep as much weight off my back as possible, bad back car crash..........

a seat out of a luxury car I guess, a lexus or something like that

a seat with airbags enclosed are they likely to go off if it falls over and hops off the floor

HandsomeDan

Car seats are a support/ comfort compromise.

Normal furniture has the advantage of not having to deal with moving around, and is more comfortable for it.

68 lost souls

Ive been thinking about this a lot lately too, was thinking also about how cool the engine table is, would be great to get a dead block and turn it into something like this