Looking to do a leather interior in the malibu. Will g8 rear seats be anywhere near the right size?
Rear seat swaps?
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i remember seeing a 4th gen camaro interior and maybe a newer grand prix i will try and find the links it looked really nice but mind you it will take some work
There's a member on MonteSS.com called Clutch Grabwell. He's done some work on the interior of his car. He modified a Caddy Eldorado rear seat to fit his car (he said it was alot of work), and he's using newer GTO front seats. I've heard of some people using seats from newer Monte Carlos (year 2000 & up). I changed the seats in my Monte about a year ago. I used a backseat from an '84 Buick GN with the Lear Seigler seat option (very hard to find), and I'm using front seats from a '96-'98 Pontiac Grand Am. I had the seats re-upholstered to match the interior of the car in a combination of cloth & vinyl, and had an "SS" logo stitched into the front seatbacks. I think it turned out pretty well. I inquired about using leather when I had the seats recovered, and the shop owner told me that the cost of the leather material would add about $700.00 to $800.00 to the cost of the job. The vinyl material that they used has a grain in the material that looks very much like natural leather, and I've had a few people mistake it for leather.
Most GM bucket seats that have been produced over the last 30 years, have the same mounting bolt pattern for the seat track mounts. There are probably some seats that don't, as there are exceptions to every rule. When I was shopping around for seats for my Monte, I tried seats from an '89 Firebird, the same '84 GN that gave up its rear seat for my car, a seat from my daily driver 2004 Cavalier, and the Grand Am seats, and all of them bolted directly to the G body bucket seat tracks. That does give you a fair bit of choice, without having to alter seat mounts, to get them bolted to the proper G body seat tracks.
Hope this helps. Good luck. Let us know how it works out.
Most GM bucket seats that have been produced over the last 30 years, have the same mounting bolt pattern for the seat track mounts. There are probably some seats that don't, as there are exceptions to every rule. When I was shopping around for seats for my Monte, I tried seats from an '89 Firebird, the same '84 GN that gave up its rear seat for my car, a seat from my daily driver 2004 Cavalier, and the Grand Am seats, and all of them bolted directly to the G body bucket seat tracks. That does give you a fair bit of choice, without having to alter seat mounts, to get them bolted to the proper G body seat tracks.
Hope this helps. Good luck. Let us know how it works out.
I have a late 90s bonneville leather seat set that fit pretty well in the rear. I don't have pictures a the moment though. the fronts don't fold forward though
I made a hybrid seat from a 93 bonneville, and my original rear seat... took some work and backyard engineering, but I have rear headrests and center armrest now, along with the matching fabric and color to the front seats I grabbed out of a FWD cutty from around the same year (I did have to nodify the bolt holes to make them fit the original mounts)
cut the original upper rear frame
cut the upper rear bonneville setup for the armrest and headrests... (the seats in those are solid foam with embedded framing)
welded everything in, test fit, and started assembling the cover to fit... (rear seat just needed to be covered, no mods really necessary)
oddly enough, I don't have a pic of the finished seat, and it's buried in a closet until I start getting the interior back together... it looks like a bonnie seat that fits the regal the way it's supposed to
cut the original upper rear frame
cut the upper rear bonneville setup for the armrest and headrests... (the seats in those are solid foam with embedded framing)
welded everything in, test fit, and started assembling the cover to fit... (rear seat just needed to be covered, no mods really necessary)
oddly enough, I don't have a pic of the finished seat, and it's buried in a closet until I start getting the interior back together... it looks like a bonnie seat that fits the regal the way it's supposed to
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