REAR LOAD BAY SEATS
After child number 4 was born, and child number 1 was dating a 22year old, the prospect of any sort of family outing was a bit of a nightmare. I still have the rear bench seats, but I wouldn't be too chuffed to sit in them for any distance my self. So I ordered some new forward facing fold up seats for the rear load bay in the 110. £364 later they arrived (ouch!) from Exmoor Trim (that was including seat belts and upper seat belt mounts).
The seats are pretty good quality, however they are only seats....so don't build your self up into some frenzy....
Fitting the seats: Easy. Fit them at the rear of the cabin so that when they are opened up, they are a few inches off the rear window. Three 8mm bolts with spreader plates (supplied) on a big hinge one the side of the seat frame. Send your mate under the wheel arch to fix the nyloc nut onto the bolts. One done, you can tip the seat up into the folded position (below right pic).
The seat won't stay there if you charge around a bend, so I fitted the strap that came tied to the leg to the screw that holds the trim in the rear of the 110. I don't know if that's what its for (you get no instructions), but it seems to work. That's it, seat fitted.
Fitting seat belts: not so easy Fitting the belts isn't too bad, its fitting the trim back around them tidily that will have you pulling your hair out. Start by removing the rear window trim and loosen off all the side trim (but you can leave it attached at the middle row B post)
Put the top anchor point (£8.50 each) up against the lip and drill you holes (yes, you will drill outside on the rear of the body). I didn't know which way to put it, so I eventually went for the second picture below on the right. Either way, you going to cut the interior trim.
Then refit the side trim and cut it to fit with a Stanley knife as you go. Take your time. You need to cut a hole where I have marked a black dot (below left). Below right is the rear fixing bolt on the outside rear of your Defender body.
When you have fitted the side trim back, you can start on the rear trim. Its a fiddle, but I managed despite the 2 year old giving me a hand..... It should look like this...or better
Then you move to the inertia reel and the other end of the anchor mountings. Below you see the red where the reel & tail end are fixed just behind the rear lights. The green line is an angle iron bar underneath you should be aware of. You can see it on the picture on the right that was taken from underneath with the Filler (green) and rear cross member (red) in shot.
The finished item looks good. Head room isn't brilliant, but I can fit just (I'm 6'2"). Leg room is big enough for a horse and you can still fit in bags/tents/small pushchair etc..
The only thing I haven't shown is the floor mounted anchor for the seat belts. Basically you need to drill through the floor and fit the spreader plates behind the floor. You could do this on a 110 without removing the fuel tank...if you were resourceful!
However my tanks leaking and I'm taking it out next week anyway so I'll put up more pictures then if I can.
