While either seat can be mounted on either side they are in fact right
and left specific. As to whether the difference amounts to much may be
open to debate but VW made them different for a reason. If you mount the
passenger seat in the driver's position the lever for adjusting the seat
track position is in close proximity to the parking brake handle. This
means that while sliding the seat forward your hand may strike the
parking brake lever and possibly become pinched between the seat release
lever and the parking brake lever.

The passenger seat has both adjustment levers on the right side. The
driver's seat has only the tilt lever on the right and the slide lever
on the left.

Mark

JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:
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> of course.  vanagon seats are not right or left specific.  just lift lever
> and slide fwd and raise that little metal triangular tab when it comes to the
> stop-tab so you can slide them out of the tracks and then swap them
> chris