The long awaited package from Exmoor Trim arrive yesterday, containing the new front seats, door cards, cubby box and rear load bay liner.

Originally LGL had 3 seats across the front but with the additional gear lever for the overdrive and lack of realistic seat belt mounts, the middle seat has been ditched in favour of  a cubby box. Nobody wants to be a passenger in the middle seat from experience… 3 in a row seats do allow for a convenient place for a proper lie down and a snooze… with ones feet out of the window.

The cubby box will provide some additional storage space for the necessities required for motoring in Switzerland and the continent. (first aid kit, hi vis, warning triangle, light bulbs, paperwork, passport, logbook, chewing gum, change for the carwash, random receipts, USB cables, wholly hat, gloves, assorted screws, bolts, fuses etc…)

The front seats and door cards are finished in a close replica of the original elephant hide vinyl. They match the rest of the original interior trim panels every well. It’s important for such things to match… right?

Front Seats…

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New seat backs fitted. The tatty old drivers seat base and back have been removed. Such was my enthusiasm I didn’t take pictures prior to starting out.

 

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The seat backs come in two flavours. Bolt or split pin. LGL has split pin seat backs. The brass washers didn’t fit vey well and had to be drilled out to fit correctly.

 

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Drivers side installed

 

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Passenger side installed

Cubby Box…

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The cubby box sits centrally on the removable panel

 

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The 4 holes measured up and drilled

 

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Fixing kit and spacers

 

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Everything bolted up to the removable panel

 

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New seats and cubby box in place

Door cards…

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A sight I hope everyone is familiar with waiting for the new door cards

 

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The entire “card” comes in 3 parts

 

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Base and arm rest fitted. Each section is drilled and fitted to the steel frame of the door with stainless self tapper screws.

 

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Upper section fitted

 

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Drivers side cockpit. Quite cosy in there.

 

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Repeat with the passenger side door

Rear Load Bay Liner…

I have the same product in the back of the Defender. It has an element of sound attenuation it’s extremely hard wearing and reasonably comfortable to sit on… even for winter camping.

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Dynamat…

 

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The matting needs to be trimmed around the seatbelt mounts

 

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Much smarter in the back now 🙂

 

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Drivers and passengers seating and door trims installed

 

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Cockpit 2017. I have some new rubber mats to fit but they can wait until everything is finished

 

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Original seats

 

…FIT THE ROOF ANDY…

Hmm… we’ll see…