Height adjustable Passenger seat.

[Busboy]

I have a 2005 Connoisseur SE tourer with Sandstone leather electrically adjustable seats I am looking for a passenger seat that like the drivers is height adjustable , I assume that this was an option for the UK market but standard on LHD models, does anybody have such a seat? or information on where I can get one.

[Arctic]

Hi Keith.
First off did you receive the seat clip i sent you FOC. some time ago now.
https://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/for...d.php?t=327202

Also i do have these, they maybe could convert a left hand seat ?
HHL100360.
https://rimmerbros.com/Item--i-HHL100360

https://rimmerbros.com/Item--i-GRID001870
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HHL100400
https://rimmerbros.com/Item--i-HHL100400
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[SD1too]

Originally Posted by Busboy

I am looking for a passenger seat that like the drivers is height adjustable , I assume that this was an option for the UK market ...

Hi Keith,

Are you looking for electric height adjustment as you have the top trim level? This was indeed an option on all models in 2002 but by the 2004 facelift brochure it had disappeared completely.

I looked into this a few years ago and three options emerged:

1. Buying a RHD passenger seat with the height option fitted.
2. Buying a LHD driver's seat and changing the upholstery if necessary.
3. Fitting the extra motors to my existing passenger seat.

Unfortunately all presented practical problems. No-one wants to sell just one seat from a set. There were no sets for sale with the electric passenger height option. Sourcing a LHD seat from abroad is an onerous and expensive task even if one was available.

That left me with converting my existing seat. I discovered that the standard fore/aft and recline motors on the passenger side are basically mounted on the seat runners in a simple arrangement. However the rise/fall and cushion tilt motors (there are two) are mounted on a more complicated frame which sits on top of the runners. This is also true of a UK (RHD) passenger seat except that there is no cushion tilt motor fitted! Then there's the different switchgear to consider probably involving changes to the connectors. It's a project not to be taken lightly!

With the comprehensive equipment available on high trim level Rovers, I don't know why the company didn't provide passenger seat height as well.

Simon

[Busboy]

Hi Arctic.

Didn't I thank you ? that's bad of me I'm so sorry, and the clip fits fine, I met you at the national at Gaydon, we had a brief chat I may have thanked you then but TBH there was a lot going on that day so I can't remember, as for the motors I'm going to study the innards of the seats and see if a conversion is doable.

[Busboy]

Thanks for the time and effort by going in to that in great detail, so as for sourcing the extra motors and all the agro involved I certainly won't go down that road, so I think my only option is a LHD drivers seat and change over the covers if necessary, it would no doubt be more expensive that way but far less agro ( in theory anyway

[Arctic]

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Originally Posted by Busboy

Hi Arctic.

Didn't I thank you ? that's bad of me I'm so sorry, and the clip fits fine, I met you at the national at Gaydon, we had a brief chat I may have thanked you then but TBH there was a lot going on that day so I can't remember, as for the motors I'm going to study the innards of the seats and see if a conversion is doable.[/QUOTE

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HI Keith.
That could not have been me as i did not attend Gaydon, maybe someone else if you do need the seat mechanism let me know i have a couple which i will be selling soon at a good price.