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| darwin1 Member Since: 03 Apr 2011 Location: Worldwide Posts: 28  |
Try jlrparts.net
No affiliation at all, but I upgraded to the Autobiography seats in my 110 at couldn't be happier. |
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7th Dec 2022 3:59am |
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| TexasRover Member Since: 24 Nov 2022 Location: Paris Posts: 795  
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Sorry for hijacking this thread, but I own a 2002 Td5 110 and been reading about front seat options. With the Puma being pretty much the same body, is it correct that puma seats can be swapped into earlier models without any changes (same 4 bolts)? So all you do is get a set of seats and you are good to go?
The rear seats (110) seems to attract more discussion. I take it you cannot easily swap the 60-40 seats of the earlier 110s to the Puma seats, which I presume are 3 individual seats. I will be following this thread with interest. Thanks yall for sharing your knowledge. |
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7th Dec 2022 9:43am |
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| irishpaddy Member Since: 28 Oct 2021 Location: god knows Posts: 13  
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i think lucari can do this to the seats as well
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8th Dec 2022 12:07pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 16884  
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To the best of my knowledge (since I haven't actually done it) you are correct. The "receiver" for the seat belt is attached to the seat, but as far as I know is also the same on a TD5 and TDCi. The Puma seats are generally considered to be significantly more comfortable than the TD5.
Assuming that you means the second row seats, Puma rears are 60/40 split but use a completely different mounting system to the TD5, and it is this which makes retrofitting them into a TD5 tricky. At least one, possibly both, of the chassis cross-members to which they attach are different. There are threads on this forum showing how the conversion can be done. The Puma second-row seats are not great for comfort (better than TD5 though) but have the huge advantage of having head-restraints. It still amazes me that it took so long for LR to realise that these are a good idea! |
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8th Dec 2022 12:29pm |
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| Linds Hanson Member Since: 16 Jan 2021 Location: Cornwall Posts: 442
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Puma seats fit everything back to 85 and no seat belts arent attached to the seats in any way, the Puma centre row seats can be fitted with the retrofit kit from YRM
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8th Dec 2022 2:36pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 16884
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You are of course absolutely right, they're not. I don't know why I momentarily thought they were! Brain fart or senior moment I suppose 
Apologies for being (uncharacteristically, I hope) misleading. |
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8th Dec 2022 3:18pm |
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| TexasRover Member Since: 24 Nov 2022 Location: Paris Posts: 795
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thanks all for the feedback. I will be working on hunting down a pair and will check the YRM website.
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8th Dec 2022 4:06pm |
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| Stacey007 Member Since: 25 Sep 2015 Location: Cheshire Posts: 3693
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 Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Upgraded ours around 3 years ago from std XS to autobiography.. tricky (the first one) but so worth it 
New foams, headrests, heaters, covers etc... before Click image to enlarge after and my helper who I needed as sometimes you NEED three hands
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8th Dec 2022 6:31pm |
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| jpboost Member Since: 13 Apr 2021 Location: Gatwick Posts: 374 
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Hi all,
An update on this. Thanks to another forum member, I picked up some new genuine premium leather seat covers, along with new foam, heater pads and the various trim strips, pins etc. Before I start, I don't suppose anyone has the set of instructions for exmoor's (or OEM development's) premium upgrade kits? I'm fine with the notion of a like for like retrim of the puma seats (and there's plenty of YouTube videos of these), I just want to make sure there's nothing extra I need to allow for with the premium conversion. Tbh, I'm just procrastinating, and should just get on with it.... I'll take some pics on the way through. Cheers all Jon |
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30th Dec 2022 7:18pm |
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| nidge n Member Since: 04 Feb 2012 Location: Cheshire Posts: 714 
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good luck, i think a few fellow members will be interested in your project.
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30th Dec 2022 10:05pm |
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| Oldowner Member Since: 26 Dec 2018 Location: South west Posts: 602 
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I have done the conversion some years ago, nothing too bad although the seat backs were very tight to get and and required a lot of persuading to get the front and back clipped together on the long main fastening.
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