Just tape a lawn chair seat pad to the oem seat your good to go.  A buddy did this in his 71 fastback as well as the mirror broke so he taped a Compact
Cosmetic mirror to the stem and it was a day night mirror. Just flip the lid down if the lights behind you were to bright. Ive got pics but cant send them to the
list. C-ya Jonce

>I do not have armrests right now and I miss them - the '85 GL has armrests.
>I considered transplanting but now that the '85 is going to a friend I just
>couldn't do it.

>On 10/24/07, Roger Sisler <rogersisler2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Your seats sound like those without arm rests.  I like the arm rests.
>> Changing a Vanagon seat is easy to do. There is a tiny  triangular shaped
>> piece of metal on the outboard track, near the front. Lift it with a screw
>> driver and just slide the seat all the way forward till it comes off the
>> end of the tracks. Kinda like chewing gum and walking all at the same
>> time.Be careful.
>>
>> If anyone has replaced Vanagon seats with arm rests, with seats without
>> armrests, how do you  like them?
>>

>--
>Thanks,

>Jeff
>'90 Carat (Grover)
>'86 (We call this one Parts)
>'85 GL (Preparing to move to a new Home)
>'78 Bus (Melissa) Patty's Bus

Jonce Fancher

56 Single Cab
66 Sunroof Bug
66 Variant Squareback
66 Porsche 912
71 Sunroof Bus
84 Vanagon "Gottfried"
85 Vanagon Westi
2003 10 Passenger Sprinter

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