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Old Apr 26, 2012 | 09:18 AM
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This may seem odd but I have a cool idea i want to try out. My AutoShop teacher has a pair of old saturn bucket seats. I was thinkin about swappin them in for my bench seat in the back of my 99 sport!
please leave any comments/addvice for my idea!
Any pictures would be greatly appriciated!!!!
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Old Apr 26, 2012 | 09:27 AM
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Measure first. You'll need some angle iron to weld to the Jeep body and to use for the new seats to bolt to. You'll probably want to mock up some kind of center console to go between them as well if you want a "finished" look. The problem I have with swapping out the bench for buckets is that you lose the ease of access to the under-seat storage.
Old Apr 26, 2012 | 09:29 AM
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... and an extra seat. You would lose cargo space as well because the Saturn buckets would be longer. Not to mention they wouldn't match...

I wouldn't, but if it makes you happy...
Old Apr 26, 2012 | 09:36 AM
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Originally Posted by no rdplz
Measure first. You'll need some angle iron to weld to the Jeep body and to use for the new seats to bolt to. You'll probably want to mock up some kind of center console to go between them as well if you want a "finished" look. The problem I have with swapping out the bench for buckets is that you lose the ease of access to the under-seat storage.
well i will still be able to acess the space underneither simply by slidding my hand under.
as for the center, that space will still be there as well so im thinkin either a cd rack, or a smaller sub woofer (8-10 inches)

And the seats are tanish just like my interier
Old Apr 26, 2012 | 10:16 AM
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Don't forget you wont be able to fold down the buckets for big stuff like the bench does.
Old Apr 26, 2012 | 10:40 AM
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Don't do it.
I did this over a year ago and hated it.
Biggest pain is you can't see out of the back window for crap!
Seats will sit too high.
Loose leg room.
It sounded like a awesome idea at the time.... It's not.
Old Apr 26, 2012 | 10:41 AM
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And this isn't fab btw. It should be in Cherokee chat.
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Originally Posted by odgreen89on35s
Don't do it.
I did this over a year ago and hated it.
Biggest pain is you can't see out of the back window for crap!
Seats will sit too high.
Loose leg room.
It sounded like a awesome idea at the time.... It's not.
do you have any pictures???
Old Apr 26, 2012 | 11:50 AM
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Originally Posted by crazycart94
do you have any pictures???
Some where on this site there are pics.
Old Apr 26, 2012 | 01:13 PM
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Originally Posted by odgreen89on35s
Don't do it.
I did this over a year ago and hated it.
Biggest pain is you can't see out of the back window for crap!
Seats will sit too high.
Loose leg room.
It sounded like a awesome idea at the time.... It's not.
That's not what you said in post #3.



https://www.cherokeeforum.com/f58/fo...ts-back-98776/

Old Apr 26, 2012 | 01:20 PM
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Here ya go. It looks like complete *** but he did it.

https://www.cherokeeforum.com/f59/re...racket-100343/


I wish this forum had the "related threads" box at the bottom. I get tired of searching up threads for people.

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Old Apr 26, 2012 | 06:03 PM
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Ive been wanting/ thinking of doing this also! If anyone has more pictures post them up!!
Old Apr 26, 2012 | 07:39 PM
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Originally Posted by lowrange2

That's not what you said in post #3.



https://www.cherokeeforum.com/f58/fo...ts-back-98776/
That was a long time ago. Lol I started to hate them.
Old Apr 27, 2012 | 12:25 PM
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Originally Posted by lowrange2
So, did you report it or did you just that and continue surfing?
I reported it. Lol
Old Apr 27, 2012 | 12:28 PM
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It must be lunchtime.



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