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The seat in my 2004 +4 wont go back quite far enough. The rear of the seat back collides with the spring cover that intrudes above the floor.
I know this is quite normal but, as I intend to lower the seat as well, has anyone tried 'relieving' either the back corner of these seats, or the spring cover?
cheers, Colin
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I removed the spring covers on the roadster when I lined out the cockpit with Dynamat.
The covers are generously sized and a bit basic, it would be easy to make new lower covers. Actually custom GRP covers would be ideal...
Peter,
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No longer driving Tarka, the 2014 Plus 8...
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See update 45 - it includes some close up pics on the spring covers and how to go about making some replacements from aluminium... it's not hard. http://www.talkmorgan.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/78408/34
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The seat in my 2004 +4 wont go back quite far enough. The rear of the seat back collides with the spring cover that intrudes above the floor.
I know this is quite normal but, as I intend to lower the seat as well, has anyone tried 'relieving' either the back corner of these seats, or the spring cover?
cheers, Colin Yes, I completely removed them on my 08 4 seater when we reduced the very high seat plinths to about 1", (we being Shaun of AWSC and me working in their trim shop) then we made some card ones to see how low we could go without fouling. We ended up cutting a major part of the plastic cover away and covering everything in a sheet of leather, as Shaun said look at the hole a few inches away to see its not watertight there anyway ;-). I managed to get the seat really close to the floor, so much so I had to bend the slide handle up to clear the floor. Only downside, and this only happened when parking in a field, over very rough ground at slow speed the rear spring movement could be felt touching the seat. Removing the seat afterwards showed the leather had been crushed but not split on both sides of the car. I have some photos if I can manage to post them of the before and after of an 08 4 seat and by comparing the cushion height with the wood centre console you can see how much they can be dropped, on a 2 seat the height above floor would be the same but on the 4 seat they start higher so the effect is more dramatic. Will try and post photos in a moment.
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The seat in my 2004 +4 wont go back quite far enough. The rear of the seat back collides with the spring cover that intrudes above the floor.
I know this is quite normal but, as I intend to lower the seat as well, has anyone tried 'relieving' either the back corner of these seats, or the spring cover?
cheers, Colin Yes, I completely removed them on my 08 4 seater when we reduced the very high seat plinths to about 1", (we being Shaun of AWSC and me working in their trim shop) then we made some card ones to see how low we could go without fouling. We ended up cutting a major part of the plastic cover away and covering everything in a sheet of leather, as Shaun said look at the hole a few inches away to see its not watertight there anyway ;-). I managed to get the seat really close to the floor, so much so I had to bend the slide handle up to clear the floor. Only downside, and this only happened when parking in a field, over very rough ground at slow speed the rear spring movement could be felt touching the seat. Removing the seat afterwards showed the leather had been crushed but not split on both sides of the car. I have some photos if I can manage to post them of the before and after of an 08 4 seat and by comparing the cushion height with the wood centre console you can see how much they can be dropped, on a 2 seat the height above floor would be the same but on the 4 seat they start higher so the effect is more dramatic. Will try and post photos in a moment. Photos posted and they have just popped up.
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I removed the rear spring covers on my 4/4 back in 2002, when I replaced the rear springs. Eager to see what the result was like, I chucked the seats back in without replacing the spring covers.
I thought at the time that I might get road dirt coming up past the spring, but it just doesn't seem to happen, the rear bulkhead trim covers most of the hole anyway. The spring covers are still not fitted to the car, and I can't think of a pressing reason to fit them, they certainly impede rearward movement of the seat. A simple piece of leather or vinyl would be perfectly sufficient to replace them with if one didn't want to have the springs visible.
Tim H.
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Guys, thanks. I am fortified in my resolve etc.....
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