[SSSIERA]

so ive noticed a few people mentioning about having cracked seat mounts, it seams to be a prety common problem. dose anyone know what causes it.

[Fatzook]

Shitty thin steel and poor seat mount/ floorpan design. Just keep an eye out for it, and WHEN it happens, get it repaired properly.

[SSSIERA]

too late, already migged it

[Rossco]

I noticed mine when I put autotechnica seats in mine. will I have a problem getting it engineered next week?

[hutch]

Fatzook wrote:

Shitty thin steel and poor seat mount/ floorpan design. Just keep an eye out for it, and WHEN it happens, get it repaired properly.

+ Fat bastards lol

[shakes]

Fatzook wrote:

Shitty thin steel and poor seat mount/ floorpan design. Just keep an eye out for it, and WHEN it happens, get it repaired properly.

With mine, (rear of passenger seat)

- I ground everything from the area so I could see the end of the crack.
- drilled a hole with a 30bit at the branches and end of the crack
- welded, cold gal'd and then primed and painted


I was thinking I could cut some 2mm plate that I have laying around to approx 50mm square, drill a hole centre for the bolt to go through and tack in where the foot of the seat base sits. To possibly spread the load a little.

Or how else should I have fixed it and whats a bette way to strengthen it?

My other idea was remove the captive nut, run a strip of ~4mm x 50mm or so mild steel as a strap under the floor to both the rear mounts with 8.8 Bolts and nylocks underneath.

[whincup]

shakes wrote:

Fatzook wrote:

Shitty thin steel and poor seat mount/ floorpan design. Just keep an eye out for it, and WHEN it happens, get it repaired properly.

With mine, (rear of passenger seat)

- I ground everything from the area so I could see the end of the crack.
- drilled a hole with a 30bit at the branches and end of the crack
- welded, cold gal'd and then primed and painted


I was thinking I could cut some 2mm plate that I have laying around to approx 50mm square, drill a hole centre for the bolt to go through and tack in where the foot of the seat base sits. To possibly spread the load a little.

Or how else should I have fixed it and whats a bette way to strengthen it?

My other idea was remove the captive nut, run a strip of ~4mm x 50mm or so mild steel as a strap under the floor to both the rear mounts with 8.8 Bolts and nylocks underneath.

mines done it in exactly the same spot, my plan was just to weld it up then put some metal plate as you said either side to distribute the weight more evenly...

[shakes]

The problem with distrubting the weight more evenly is it's very possible to move the stresses and cause more damage.

Be interested to see people who are more in the know's opinion on making a bigger plate for the mount to rest on, vs making a sandwhich style plate underneath the floor.