Renault furniture

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

After a comment schakal made, it did seem criminal to throw away the interior out of the car ive stripped. Driver's seat is buggered, but the passenger seat is reasonable and the rears are pretty good.

So yesterday in work i went on the hunt for a suitable base for my new desk chair. I found one, sadly it already had a seat attached to it Wink

, so i took it away to one of my little hidey-holes for 'modification'. The actual seat portion unscrewed easily, and found its way stealthily into a skip. The back rest part however was attached with 2 big rusty roll pins which i couldnt get out. So i did my usual and kicked, jumped on and bashed fuck out of it with a hammer until it eventually basically sheared off.

Leaving this:

then i made up some little wooden strip things to 'clamp' the seat to the base with screws through the holes on those 2 runner things.

The finished article. Needs a bit of a clean, but you just know that this bad boy 16v chair will be ace for sitting and watching a DVD. Shame the drivers seat was knackered or i could have adjustable lumbar support too Smile

The height adjustment on the seat is as low as it can go, so i think i will remove the subframe and make up a plywood plate at work tomorrow to screw straight to the bottom of the seat and then screw the base to that.

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

Oh yeah...next up: the rear seats becomes a garden bench for summer Cool

Level 9 User Joined: 09 Mar 2005 Posts: 453

thats quality is that Very Happy

Site Subscriber Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 589

I like it

Level 7 User Joined: 06 Sep 2004 Posts: 230

Don't we need a how to on that Cool

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

I thought about that, but how you do it will depend entirely on the specific design of the individual donor chair you use. Even in the room i got this one from, i looked at several, all of which were different. I picked the one which i thought looked like it would be easiest to bodge onto the bottom of my seat.

Retroholic Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 5685

Is it stable?

Site Subscriber Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 2281

Class invention. Trevor Bayliss would be proud.

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

they are a pain in the arse tbh as they are rather large and get ion the way.

The rears are good for a bench like you say but again bloody big and a pain in the arse because of it.

George had one of my front seats set up as a pc chair for a good while

Spammer Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 5717

i can see you playing racing games on xbox sitting on that seat Laughing

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

tidy darts! does it tilt?