Thread: Fitting a Middle Centre seat in the perentie

Originally Posted by Jerry777

I'll try and get some pics when I'm done, having serious issues getting seating approved just a long and expensive road, will be opening a new blog requesting info to try and keep engineers costs down. Thanks

I have an appointment with mobility engineering on Friday to see what they reckon - also looking at getting a roll bar. It looks like I might have to swap the passenger and drivers seats to get it to for without the adjusters getting in the way.

Hi everyone. I'm new to this website and I'm trying to work my way around the site. I'm after some help. I have the option of buying a ffr perenti 1989 ex military vehicle. I have driven it and fell in love, the trouble I have is that I really need to install an additional seat for my daughter. She is 2 years of age. I understand there will be a cost to modifying the vehicle but what a vehicle to explore the Northern Territory in. My question is, is it possible to add additional seating into this model and for them to be compliant to allow children seats to be secured. Any help would be awesome. I don't want to miss out on the car but I need to think of my daughters safety as a priority. Thanks

You can fit a Defender middle seat in between the front seats but you might have to move the outside seats out to their original positions first. AFAIK they were moved inboard for the ADF but the original holes are still there, they are on mine anyway
A bigger issue is engineering the change to the number of seats
Best bet is go and speak to (face to face) a senior person at you local vehicle registry and find out from them if it will be allowed and the name of any local qualified motor engineers
If you go forward with the change he will tell you what mods he wants. Far better to speak to him before you do anything
The mod has been done by others here but good luck anyway
Regards
Phil

There is a GS for sale on Facebook that has seatbelts for the rear bench seats and apparently all legal. So it can't be impossible.

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hi there is this a 4x4 perenti Which seat did you for to fit mate. I have a young daughter I need to put into a child seat so I'm guessing I would have to add a bar behind the seats in order to provide an anchor point for the child seat in the middle so it is compliant? Any ideas or advice would be grateful. Thanks

Originally Posted by Tom Watkins

hi there is this a 4x4 perenti Which seat did you for to fit mate. I have a young daughter I need to put into a child seat so I'm guessing I would have to add a bar behind the seats in order to provide an anchor point for the child seat in the middle so it is compliant? Any ideas or advice would be grateful. Thanks

Hey mate I'm working through this now with mobility engineering in hornsby nsw. Morry that works there seemed confident it could be done and said he'd get back to me - I haven't heard anything back yet , but I'll call him soon as it's been around a fortnight. Edit: yes it's a 4x4 .KLR automotive can also definitely put the seat in but not sure about the child restraint. I was only trying to go through mobility for the child restraint as they're around the corner and also looking to get a roll Bar engineered

Wouldn't a CRAB bar from a 110 wagon work? It would have to go behind the front seats rather than the rear, but the capping is the same width apart.

There is a "CRAB" bar for sale in marketplace adds on here