Hi all
Now please be seated, this is a strange and rare event. Yes I am posting something and there's no question involved.
My 2003 has just about everything I could want except the vented seats and this is the real killer no lumbar support. I'll have to live without a cold butt but I do need the support so I installed my own. And surprisingly enough it works really well.
If you want to know what I did read on, if not I'd leave now as you'll be bored in no time. Those that have got this far will realise I'm not much at writing instructions! I don't even have any photos but if anyone wants any I'll take the seat back off and get a few.
I bought one of the inflatable cushions that is intended to sit on the top of the seat itself so you can move it around. Not for me - that would spoil the look of nice leather. I got mine from that internet site that sells everything and is named after a big river in South America for £25. It is a very well made bit of kit too, especially as I could have spent a whole lot more for the same sort of thing.
So I removed the seat back for a bit of a look and couldn't believe how easy it appeared to be and was!
With the internals on full display I used a sturdy hook to remove the springs holding the centre mesh to the frame to allow me to fit the deflated cushion between the mesh and the padding of the seat proper. This allows a bit more movement when sliding the cushion in and saves on swearing and scraped knuckles too!
The cushion came with a protective case which had to go leaving just the "balloon" and a piece of memory foam. To make it easier to slide into place between the mesh and the seat padding I used a couple of pieces of reasonably heavy polythene so that things moved easier. It took but a few minutes to work it in and down to what seemed like a good spot, which as luck would have it turned out to be perfect.
Now with the cushion in place I came to the issue of the hand pump and where to put it. Now this is where luck played it's trump card because in the metal frame there is a hole in exactly the right place! so I ran the pipe through here to the leather outer skin. Now I have to be honest and say I was somewhat nervous about making holes in that but there was no option. I used a very sharp blade and made a hole a little larger than the pipe which slipped through easily. I then slid a shiny grommet over the pipe and fitted it in to the leather - hence the slightly larger hole, connected the hand bulb pump thing, put the springs back and got in to try it out. Lovely, so seat back back on and job's a good'un. All in all for less than £30 and half an hours work I have a sensible lumbar support system in the seat. Chuffed!
Anyone make it this far? Take a gold star for perseverance. I take my hat off to you, well I would if I had one on.
Now please be seated, this is a strange and rare event. Yes I am posting something and there's no question involved.
My 2003 has just about everything I could want except the vented seats and this is the real killer no lumbar support. I'll have to live without a cold butt but I do need the support so I installed my own. And surprisingly enough it works really well.
If you want to know what I did read on, if not I'd leave now as you'll be bored in no time. Those that have got this far will realise I'm not much at writing instructions! I don't even have any photos but if anyone wants any I'll take the seat back off and get a few.
I bought one of the inflatable cushions that is intended to sit on the top of the seat itself so you can move it around. Not for me - that would spoil the look of nice leather. I got mine from that internet site that sells everything and is named after a big river in South America for £25. It is a very well made bit of kit too, especially as I could have spent a whole lot more for the same sort of thing.
So I removed the seat back for a bit of a look and couldn't believe how easy it appeared to be and was!
With the internals on full display I used a sturdy hook to remove the springs holding the centre mesh to the frame to allow me to fit the deflated cushion between the mesh and the padding of the seat proper. This allows a bit more movement when sliding the cushion in and saves on swearing and scraped knuckles too!
The cushion came with a protective case which had to go leaving just the "balloon" and a piece of memory foam. To make it easier to slide into place between the mesh and the seat padding I used a couple of pieces of reasonably heavy polythene so that things moved easier. It took but a few minutes to work it in and down to what seemed like a good spot, which as luck would have it turned out to be perfect.
Now with the cushion in place I came to the issue of the hand pump and where to put it. Now this is where luck played it's trump card because in the metal frame there is a hole in exactly the right place! so I ran the pipe through here to the leather outer skin. Now I have to be honest and say I was somewhat nervous about making holes in that but there was no option. I used a very sharp blade and made a hole a little larger than the pipe which slipped through easily. I then slid a shiny grommet over the pipe and fitted it in to the leather - hence the slightly larger hole, connected the hand bulb pump thing, put the springs back and got in to try it out. Lovely, so seat back back on and job's a good'un. All in all for less than £30 and half an hours work I have a sensible lumbar support system in the seat. Chuffed!
Anyone make it this far? Take a gold star for perseverance. I take my hat off to you, well I would if I had one on.
