Where to buy unused rear passenger seats from 4x4's

Moomat

I'm looking for a rear bench seat for a commercial 95 Isuzu Trooper. It has Recaro front seats and I've no idea if the original rear seats were Recaros too.

Considering the amount of 4x4's that have been converted to commercial over the last decade or 2 there must be a huge stockpile of rear seats somewhere.

Anybody any idea where I could find unused or nearly new rear seats in Ireland? I've checked the usual suspects, Donedeal, Adverts etc

11wingnut

Try Kanes of Granard

cabb8ge

Rears were not recaro, that trooper a "bighorn" ?

colm_mcm

11wingnut wrote: »

Try Kanes of Granard

I wish I could type what I'm thinking

biko

Post in Wanted thread in 4x4 forum.

my friend

Moomat wrote: »

I'm looking for a rear bench seat for a commercial 95 Isuzu Trooper. It has Recaro front seats and I've no idea if the original rear seats were Recaros too.

Considering the amount of 4x4's that have been converted to commercial over the last decade or 2 there must be a huge stockpile of rear seats somewhere.

Anybody any idea where I could find unused or nearly new rear seats in Ireland? I've checked the usual suspects, Donedeal, Adverts etc

Not for human passengers?
They won't be insured unless you sort all with Revenue and your underwriters

hallo dare

colm_mcm wrote: »

I wish I could type what I'm thinking

Hehehehe!!!

Red Nissan

The seats that come out of 4x4s in the conversion process are destroyed.

Moomat

cabb8ge wrote: »

Rears were not recaro, that trooper a "bighorn" ?

It's the shiniest, cleanest most underused big horn around! Its the lwb Irmscher model to be precise, only 90k miles on it.

Was the material standard issue on rears?

Moomat

my friend wrote: »

Not for human passengers?
They won't be insured unless you sort all with Revenue and your underwriters

Yes, mostly human! I'm aware of the regulations. It will possibly be getting converted and registered as an expedition camper.

Moomat

Red Nissan wrote: »

The seats that come out of 4x4s in the conversion process are destroyed.

I was hoping they weren't! Is that a stipulation in the process?

elperello

Mostly they are taken home by the owner when they collect after the conversion and get stuck in the back of a garage/shed with a vague notion that they might come in handy. A few want ads on the usual sites should flush out a few.

Red Nissan

Moomat wrote: »

I was hoping they weren't! Is that a stipulation in the process?

Sadly yes, I was surprised myself but it is a stipulation. Oddly enough, one company makes a bonfire out of them [or did a few years ago] ~ one rule being obeyed and harming the environment in the process.

Moomat

Red Nissan wrote: »

Sadly yes, I was surprised myself but it is a stipulation. Oddly enough, one company makes a bonfire out of them [or did a few years ago] ~ one rule being obeyed and harming the environment in the process.

That's a shame, burning those nasty tax dodging rear seats at the stake! I wonder did many escape?

11wingnut

colm_mcm wrote: »

I wish I could type what I'm thinking

So you delt with the boys .Did you get a vat receiot?
Iknow they are chansers .but when i bought a new trooper off them they ware 2.5kpunts cheeper and a higher spec than anywhere
i bought a landcruiser off them and sold it two years later for the same mone. This was the good times .

Bandara

Red Nissan wrote: »

The seats that come out of 4x4s in the conversion process are destroyed.

No they are not

I have mine in storage

my friend

Bandara wrote: »

No they are not

I have mine in storage

I guess you're living the dream

Moomat

The front seats. I'd like to match the material as closely as possible.

Red Nissan

Bandara wrote: »

No they are not

I have mine in storage

I'm talking about the importers who convert to commercial.

Bandara

Red Nissan wrote: »

I'm talking about the importers who convert to commercial.

Hi Red

Maybe I'm getting the wrong end of the stick here.

My own commercial 4x4 was picked by me in the UK at a main dealership, it was then purchased, imported from the UK and converted for me by a company that converts them etc and it was delivered fully VRT'd and converted to me. I then paid them for it plus an agreed fee for their time and work etc

They asked if I wanted the seats and I took them. My brother bought exactly via the same process ?

Red Nissan

Bandara wrote: »

Hi Red Maybe I'm getting the wrong end of the stick here. They asked if I wanted the seats and I took them. My brother bought exactly via the same process ?

This is a private process. Technically you converted the car yourself.

Commercially all 4x4s arrive as saloon cars and have the windows, seats, ancillary items like seat belts, extra power points all removed. A flat bed cargo shelf is then fitted.

The removed seats are destroyed and it then gets its custom clearance and goes on sale as a commercial.

There is no onus on a private conversion to destroy the removed items.