mk2 mondeo saloon bench fitted to give 3 seats u will need a slght extention for seat belt anchors and a lap belt never tried to fit the back rest should fit with not to much problems
mondeo 3 seat bench
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I really ought to learn to read posts properly! My bad! Oops! lol....Old Farts Syndrome....lol
Very interesting mod............ I would love to do this to my car but I have got the Ivory V6NOS seats in mine so it will have to remain the same. Good job.
shouldnt think it as a mod as oe seats and its not really modding it even my insurance company thought it was 5 seater till i told them it only had 4
Probably best to tell 'em tho - don't want to go giving 'em any reason to find excuses.
OE = Original Equipment. Those seats are not OE to the Cougar. Despite the insurers playing dumb to it having 4 seats, its usually a tactic. Don't think for a second that if you had a situation resulting in a claim that needed an inspection that they wouldn't do their best to get out of it. That's practically handing it to them by having a 3 seat base with only 2 seat backs.
Changing a cars seating capacity is something you need to notify your insurers of and I think inspected also. The car was not equipped for 3 seat belts in the rear and does not have factory spec mounts or fittings for such.
If the whole lot was changed and the necessary action taken to verify its legitimacy then fair play! Certainly be a bit more practical but height in the rear is limited already, would it not significantly reduce seat height by removing the buckets?
I have to agree with Kully here, if you modded the car to carry 5 people and had a bump whilst carrying 5 people, I wouldn't be surprised if your insurance company decided the insurance was invalidated with that undeclared mod.
Seating capacity is also recorded on the V5 so that would need to be amended to reflect the change.
I think there's a safety issue going on here too - cars with three seats in the back usually have a 60/40 split arrangement so the split in the backrest is not at the centre of someone's spine. If you managed to get the backrest done too then it would be different. I wouldn't fancy sitting in that centre seat.
I never realised that was the reasoning behind a 60/40 split! I have had a car in the past though (1994 Hyundai X2) that had a 50/50 split. I seem to recall that my 1998 Corsa was 50/50 too, but I could be mistaken.
I don't know if that is the case regarding the 60/40 split but it seems pretty logical. To me anyway
You are not mistaken Rich, as I too have had cars in the past with 50/50 split seats. However, if you look at most modern cars now, they are mostly 60/40 split.
it's an interesting 'change/mod' to make seating more comfortable, and well thought.
but as V6Singh has said, there are implications in terms of seating capacity and safety issues re seatbelts etc
tread with care!
but as V6Singh has said, there are implications in terms of seating capacity and safety issues re seatbelts etc
tread with care!
That 60/40 split thing is really interesting John - I never thought of it that way.
Interesting mod by the way. Not one I would do since I never haul more than 3 people (plus self) but it actually looks like a good idea for making child car seats more stable.
Interesting mod by the way. Not one I would do since I never haul more than 3 people (plus self) but it actually looks like a good idea for making child car seats more stable.