Guest kevinmac Posted April 3, 2004 Report Posted April 3, 2004 anyone know where i can get my hands on a set of captains chairs with armrests Quote
fozzer Posted April 3, 2004 Report Posted April 3, 2004 Try www.environsales.com last time I contacted them they had seats wings and bonnets left in stock.RegardsGraham Quote
Guest nimrod Posted April 3, 2004 Report Posted April 3, 2004 What sort are you after? the front drivers/passenger or the rear seats? if its just the rears your after, convert your existing by sticking a set of arm rests on them Quote
Guest nimrod Posted April 3, 2004 Report Posted April 3, 2004 Although they seem to be very expensive as a retro fit job when bought from the dealers the arm rests are needed if you are are going to run with the middle seat removed and the outer two moved inboard, we found that the people in the seats fell/slipped out the sides more easily due the lack of support and anything to lean on! ie. the door! when we tried it, so we run with the middle seat inplace but folded down and no falling out occurs :) Quote
Guest kevinmac Posted April 4, 2004 Report Posted April 4, 2004 i need the middle two as my sharan is a six seater Quote
Guest nimrod Posted April 4, 2004 Report Posted April 4, 2004 It may be easier then get the arms from the dealers and fit them yourself than to keep looking for a set of seats in the right trim colour, apart from the finacial outlay it doesnt seem that difficult a job to fit the arms? Quote
Dally Posted April 5, 2004 Report Posted April 5, 2004 nimrod Could you help by explaining how you fitted them.I spent some time 'feeling' around for the hole that would need them to be screwed into but struggled. Is the hole threaded or will a nut have to be held behind? Quote
Guest nimrod Posted April 5, 2004 Report Posted April 5, 2004 I only have armrests on the drivers and front passengers seats, but the garage from where I bought my Galaxy from had one in that they were fitting arm rests to two of the rear seats, the seat cover is removable which gives you access to the frame and allows you to located the position the holes need to be, on the seat I looked at it had the captive nuts in place, but I cant say if all rear seats do? I havent had the urge to strip my seats down to see if it possible on mine, yet! Quote
MrT Posted May 9, 2004 Report Posted May 9, 2004 Does anyone know if all the car floors are cut with the floor slots for all the seat positions? My car is a six seater and for the middle row there are 8 mounts on the floor (4 per seat) My old seven seater had 16 mounts for the middle row. Quote
Guest Murdock Posted May 9, 2004 Report Posted May 9, 2004 The floor plan already has the mounting for the 7 seat option. Its just a case of cutting the carpet and fitting the floor mounts.I also have the 6 seater and investigated the possibility of increasing my capacity to 7 seats, but the removal of the arm rests and the lack of matcing seat trims made me change my mind. Quote
MrT Posted May 10, 2004 Report Posted May 10, 2004 I went for the 6 seater after having the 7 seater with the middle row, middle seat with only a lap belt which I viewed as unsafe. Later on I found the newer Galaxies had a full three point belt in the middle. However now I have a cool box and I am thinking about putting that in the middle row between the two captains chairs when required. The middle armrests would certainly be able to stay but I am not sure if the outer would catch the door. As an aside, I was getting sick of the difficulty in tilting the back row chairs. The handles on the sides were against the CD player and Air-con respectively and you could not reach them. I had to rely on the red pull chords. However today I discovered that the tilt handles were only held on by two clips and a weak spring, so I swapped the handles round. They are now between the chairs where they can be easily reached. Quote
Mussey1 Posted May 11, 2004 Report Posted May 11, 2004 I noticed some captains chairs on ebay. Mussey1. Quote
Dally Posted August 2, 2004 Report Posted August 2, 2004 Help! Have gone and bought some armrests. Problem is though I'm stuck about how to fix them. I've stripped the seat and there is no captive nut there. In fact there are just a number of holes and slots - none of which will hold the armrest fixing on its own. I have been to ford and VW both say there are no further fittings available - all is on the armrest. I am in possession of two types of armrest (see pic). The on on the left is from ford and is the only one they do. It is intended to fit on permanently. The one on the right is a vw one and I can only assume is a 'removal' one as is described in the sales literature for the sharan. Nimrod, you indicated that you saw one being fitted at a ford dealer - can you give any more info on this please. Anyone else out there who may have tackled this one?? Quote
Richmond Posted August 3, 2004 Report Posted August 3, 2004 The arm rest on the right in the photo' looks as if it's a push fit; are there suitable holes into which you might push it? (Try to avoid receiving red squares when answering this question.) Quote
Guest fredt Posted August 3, 2004 Report Posted August 3, 2004 Dally any chance of a picture of the outer side of the arms? if there is a cap on it? then prise the cap of and see whats under there? Have gone and bought some armrests. off Ebay? from the guy whose girlfriend left the keys in his car! and it got stolen? Quote
Guest fredt Posted August 3, 2004 Report Posted August 3, 2004 As I said in the above post remove the caps on the arms outers and under there is a bolt torx headed job IIRC? undo it and the two bits that look like they are part of the arms are actually the mounting brackets! these you secure to the seat by the means of a..... N 013 971 3 OVAL HEAD PANEL SCREW B4,8X22 according to my info? that's for the arm on the right, I am still looking for the mounting info/system for the left arm :D Quote
Dally Posted August 3, 2004 Report Posted August 3, 2004 fredt, How did you guess that?? The one on the right is from him but the one on the left was purchased from my local Ford Dealer. The Ford ones fitting is integrated into the armrest and I have the torx bolt and cap with it. The torx bolt is supposed to screw into a captive nut in the side of the seat backrest but no such nut is there. With the VW one, the spigot assembly is bolted by a similar torx bolt but I could not rationalise the holes and slots in the side of the seat back with these. It looks as if there sould be a further plate that should bolt onto the seat backrest into which this would clip into for easy insertion and removal (note the indent on the large spigot - this suggests it may push fit as Richmond suggests). Will try and post some pics tomorrow. The TIS disc is useless on this issue. Thanks so far guys. Quote
Dally Posted August 4, 2004 Report Posted August 4, 2004 Fredt As promised - a pic of the vw spigot version is attached. I took the plastic cap off and there is no hole or screw underneath it. It appears to be an all in one piece jobby. There has to be some interim part that fixes to the seat backrest and the armrest pushes into it. Help! BTWFredt - what is a N 013 971 3 OVAL HEAD PANEL SCREW B4,8X22 ? what might it look like? Am I being stupid (perhaps been stupid buying these!) Cheers. Quote
Guest Andyjflet Posted August 5, 2004 Report Posted August 5, 2004 Dare I suggest stripping down the front seat to see what can be done ? Preferably the nearside in case you need to drive to the dealers to get parts.....Oh and by the way I'm pretty sure there is a thread on here somewher with this title and I'm sure someone has done this job, but I think he had to strip the seats down. Quote
Guest fredt Posted August 5, 2004 Report Posted August 5, 2004 N 013 971 3 OVAL HEAD PANEL SCREW B4,8X22 .......... is the screw used by VW to fix the arm locating bracket to the seat frame, from what I can gather from the parts list for the seats, the bracket with the two studs on it is fixed to the seat frame by the OVAL HEAD PANEL SCREW and then the arm is bolted to that it may be different for your arm? but I can only find two arm to seat fixing methods! one where it bolts straight to the seat and the other where it bolts to a bracket similar to yours I will try and dig out the picture later and post it, although its not a very high quality picture :lol: it may be of some help ? Quote
Dally Posted August 5, 2004 Report Posted August 5, 2004 Thanks guys. Went to VW again today. After much discussion and persuasion by me that there must be something in between,, they have now ordered acouple of brackets that they think fit on top of the seat side and they say it is colour coded according to their parts system. They now accept that this may be the bit that the armrest pushes into and clicks in place. Will get them on Monday. No such luck with ford though on their version. Showed them the stripped down seat and they have concluded that as there is no captive nut welded to the seat, only the captain seat option will have them. Suggest personal innovation as to how these may fit. Still thinking. Cheers Quote
Dally Posted August 10, 2004 Report Posted August 10, 2004 vw failed to obtain the brackets - on back order and will have to wait.However, I have found a picture that shows what they look like. Quote
davec Posted August 14, 2004 Report Posted August 14, 2004 i made up some brackets but they are fiddly to do then migd them on,had a welded nut in they are from 18g steel but have to be folded and welde so they dont bend as people often lean on them to get in etc.they also get in way of fridge a bit so the pull off ones would be better if id known they were available.Am thinking of making stand for fridge to lift it about 6" for my new galaxy to save the hassle Quote
Dally Posted August 14, 2004 Report Posted August 14, 2004 davec You didn't happen to take any pictures did you? I'm still awaiting the brackets from VW! Quote
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