Fridge Slide replacement for rear seats.

[Convinceme]

After reading the thread started by PostHistory about his excellent vehicle setup, I thought I should pull my finger out.I didn't want to hi jack the thread, but there did seem to be a bit of interest in the slide mod. I've gained lots of insight and information and wanted to put up some info about a fridge slide replacement for the rear seats.
I bought the Disco from another member on here in December last year and it came with a fridge slide and the mounting hardware to put a fridge slide in place of the passenger side rear seat. I've never used it, I got a set of Drifta drawers and fridge slide instead.
I put it in the car for the first time last night, it took about 30 minutes to get the seat out and about 15 to get it back in. 5 bolts in total plus the one holding in the seat belt.
1st remove the tie downs. Then the left hand trim and cover of the seat release mechanism, revealing 2 bolts for the seat.
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At the rear of the backrest there is a black plastic cover, get inside that and there are 2 more bolts.
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The trickiest I found was lifting the cover off the single bolt at the front.
Slide the seat forward slightly and lift out.
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The slide is attached to thick ply with holes drilled for use of existing bolt holes. The right hand side is supported by three pieces of pipe 2x 127mm towards the back and 1x 105mm at the front, left hand side 3x bolts and washers into existing spots.

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I believe its an ARB brand slide from what I was told by Drifta, theres a nice little spot under the base for storage provided by the cutout.
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Hopefully the info is useful, if I can make more measurements for those interested in building the same, I'm more than happy to help.

Steve

[Epic pooh]

Thanks for that, your comments and pics may yet motivate me to remove mine and fix the highly annoying rattle that is currently kept at bay by shoving some recovery gear in a strategic spot. Awesome !

[connock]

Love that idea, great

connock

[BMKal]

Very well done. Has given me some ideas on how to do mine. Still tossing up whether to fit a set of drawers - but may not now that I have seen this idea.

[BobD]

Steve,

The two rear seats are joined together. You don't mention how you separated them so I assume that yours were already separated by the previous owner, which made things much easier for you. If you did separate them, can you please indicate how you did it?

Bob

[Convinceme]

Steve,

The two rear seats are joined together. You don't mention how you separated them so I assume that yours were already separated by the previous owner, which made things much easier for you. If you did separate them, can you please indicate how you did it?

Bob

Hi Bob

The seats weren't joined together when I took them out, on my particular model I wouldn't see the need. There's 5 bolts on each seat holding them down and nowhere that I could see that they attach together, they are a pretty close fit. It wasn't until I managed to get all the plastic covers lifted that I worked it out, hence why it took so long to get them out as opposed to putting them back in. I reckon it would be a struggle getting them out of the back if they where. I could be wrong, I'm only going on what I have in front of me. Sorry I can't be of more help.

Steve

[BobD]

Thanks Steve. I thought that must be the case. They all have the bolts that you are talking about but they are also joined in the middle with a flattish plate and rivets of some sort and are an absolute pain to get out in one piece. I agree that there doesn't seem to be any reason to join them but perhaps it is to do with the factory installation process.

Maybe the previous owner or someone who has done it will see this and comment on the best way to separate them. When I took mine out I just left them as they were manufactured and reinstlled them when I finished my trip, so they are still in a single piece.

Bob

[Lanceanot]

“1st remove the tiedowns. Then the left hand trim and cover of the seat release mechanism,revealing 2 bolts for the seat.”

Steve, great post thankyou however, after removing the tiedown bolts, I’m stuck at removing the trim as I can’t work out how to remove the cover of the seat release mechanism. I’m a bit wary of applying too much force to the unknown.

Could you explain the trick to removing this cover?

Thanks, Craig

[Convinceme]

“1st remove the tiedowns. Then the left hand trim and cover of the seat release mechanism,revealing 2 bolts for the seat.”

Steve, great post thankyou however, after removing the tiedown bolts, I’m stuck at removing the trim as I can’t work out how to remove the cover of the seat release mechanism. I’m a bit wary of applying too much force to the unknown.

Could you explain the trick to removing this cover?

Thanks, Craig

I've taken a couple of extra pictures (with the iphone, so not that great) and I'll do my best to explain how I went about things. As its been done before it may be easier on my car, parts removed etc. as BobD pointed out.
After removing the tie down points, using finger nail with minimum persuasion I started at the rear right side of the cover on the locking mechanism, pretty easy with fingers to pull it up. As in the picture there are two double lugs on the top of the plastic cover and two single ones on the side. I then lifted the lower edge, again with fingers, and it came away easily.
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Once the cover was off, the carpeted section is held in place at three points. At either end there is a spring type clip ( sorry the picture isn't so good)These are attached to the plastic trim on the car and the carpet covered part is pressed into these

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These bits can be prised apart again quite easily, friction only holding these in place. The third point is in the center and looks like a lug and slide type of fitment.

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Once the end clips are released the carpeted section can be pushed forward releasing the lug, then removing the carpet bit and exposing the seat bolts. This is the most difficult bit to get back on.

Hopefully this makes some sort of sense, hard to write down not knowing the correct names of parts

More than happy to clarify anything else.

Steve

[PostHistory]

This way seems much better as a permanent solution. like the old adage goes ....... there is more than one way to skin a cat