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I Just doubled the value of my truck!

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I just picked up a set of new Corbeau Sport Seats in grey cloth with extra lumbar. :p: Pics: http://picasaweb.google.com/thejtk/CorbeauSeats

Yes, the cost was about $1045 :eek1: with tax so my truck is worth about twice as much now (now I just need to put my $2500 road bike on the back). It's expensive, but they were bolt on and are comfortable. My old original seats were so bad as to keep me from the mountains with the dread of sitting in them for more than an hour.
Instead of a new pedestal and sliders, they came with flat metal brackets to adapt to my stock hardware. That was actually the only issue with install. The supplied brackets were flat, but the stock sliders are curved with the locking hardware sticking up in the middle. Some bending and body weight to get everything lined up and they were installed.

The only negative I can see is that because my stock seats were so bad and the Corbeaus so expensive I actually considered replacing the Blazer. This caused me to make the mistake of test driving a 2003 Z71 Tahoe. Bad move. Now I have to buy one. Although the Corbeaus bought me the time to find a nice one.

Now that I can take road trips again, I think I'm going to go climb a 14'er tomorrow (I was thinking Huron if anyone is interested). I'll post some impressions after sitting in them for 7 or 8 hours this weekend.
 
What year Blazer do you have?

So these seats and mounts were true BOLT ON, no fab work?

Ive been toying with replacing my seats with some suspension seats but I want true bolt ons. My pass. seat is the tilt up type though.

PIcs look good though, thanks for sharing.
 
more like, in todays economy, you devalued the value of the seats actually. :p:

don't think just because you installed $1000+ seats, your going to get that much more for your truck if you were to sell it...

i have a lot of cash involved in a different project truck i have here and i'll NEVER see what i put into it :crazy:
 
I usually go the easy route and fill up the gas tank
 
badmix said:
What year Blazer do you have?

So these seats and mounts were true BOLT ON, no fab work?

Ive been toying with replacing my seats with some suspension seats but I want true bolt ons. My pass. seat is the tilt up type though.

PIcs look good though, thanks for sharing.
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1987

Yes, true bolt on. If you look at the bracket in the pictures, the bolts that are welded to it go in the holes on the sliders and the outer holes on the bracket line up with the holes on the seat. For that, I reused the original bolts and not the ones they supplied because they gave ones that need a hex wrench and I like the leverage I get with my socket wrench. But, the brackets required some bending to fit over the curve on the sliders (if you call that 'fabrication').

When you say your passenger seat is the 'tilt up type' do you mean that it slides forward when you put the back down? If so, you'll definitely lose that functionality. Probably with any aftermarket set you buy.
 
4xcrazy said:
more like, in todays economy, you devalued the value of the seats actually. :p:

don't think just because you installed $1000+ seats, your going to get that much more for your truck if you were to sell it...

i have a lot of cash involved in a different project truck i have here and i'll NEVER see what i put into it :crazy:
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Oh, I know. That's why I kept the original seats. In case anything happens and I need to part with the truck I can pull the Corbeaus and sell them separately. From what I've seen on Ebay, I should be able to get at least half my money back even 5 years from now.

I like to tell people how cheap it was to buy my truck, but I don't tell them that I've probably spent more than twice that on maintenance and upgrades over the past 6 years. That's never coming back.
 
joshkbomb said:
1987

Yes, true bolt on. If you look at the bracket in the pictures, the bolts that are welded to it go in the holes on the sliders and the outer holes on the bracket line up with the holes on the seat. For that, I reused the original bolts and not the ones they supplied because they gave ones that need a hex wrench and I like the leverage I get with my socket wrench. But, the brackets required some bending to fit over the curve on the sliders (if you call that 'fabrication').

When you say your passenger seat is the 'tilt up type' do you mean that it slides forward when you put the back down? If so, you'll definitely lose that functionality. Probably with any aftermarket set you buy.
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No, mine dont SLIDE, they literally tilt forward, the WHOLE seat. its only bolted to the floor by 4 bolts in the front and there is a latch for the back and a cable to tether the seat from going all the way forward.

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badmix said:
No, mine dont SLIDE, they literally tilt forward, the WHOLE seat. its only bolted to the floor by 4 bolts in the front and there is a latch for the back and a cable to tether the seat from going all the way forward.

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Wow, what year is your truck? I've never seen that before. It's hard to say, but you'll probably need different brackets than me. Send an email to Corbeau support with that picture and your truck's info and they should be able to tell you what the deal is (that's what I did).
 
Very nice.

My 79 has the tilt passenger side. I don't remember if my 76 did or not.
 
Yep, I have the exact same passenger seat in my '86 K5.

edit: that makes no sense. :) My passenger seat is the kind that flips completely up as well. Not bad except everyone tries to just slam it back down instead of pushing the lever forward and setting the seat down. It's a stupid little thing I know, but it still pisses me off.
 
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looks like you could bolt that down w/o the stack of washers, it would just recline the seat more, looks like you gaining some height from stacked nuts between seat and mount, depending on how picky you are about seat placement, you may could bolt everything w/o any spacers and it still bolt up.

i had a 82 cab/blazer frame...i bolted Honda crx seats in it, i used small pipe with correct bolt welded in & screwed that into seat it was cool.....i welded 3/8th sae bolts on the other end of cutoff pipe, ..stuck those bolt threw the floor used large washerz,..i cut all the pipes different lengths to keep the seat level from side to side and tilted back a little kept shortest mount 2-3'' long,..when i sat in it & it was like a little import, the hood was high, rather low from inside, you couldn't see over the dash, your furthest view was the ''bill'' on the dash top. if you raised up you could see the hood just fine and drive accurately, but bumming around town i sat back, and b/c most people was looking up to see in, i sat low enough in cab they couldn't see anybody,,..i put a pair of dessert flags on the end of my bumper w/pipe hangers that have set screw and clamp onto a beam
 
The recline/slide seat came in like '87 or '88? I know mine came out of a 1990 and I was in an '88 once that had it.
 
'88 and up is for sure the "sliding" style, no tilt on the seats. They also use the pedestal type mounts where the seat frame is bolted to a separate box which is then bolted to the floor. According to Corbeau they have brackets to accommodate both styles.

jms said:
Mastercraft seat on stock driver's side slider bracket.
Stack o'washers in the back is a try to compensate for the seat being worn out over the last 5 years, not sure whether that'll stay that way. I could take the seat apart and tighten everything...

My passenger side is the flip-forward kind as well. Just bolting a Mastercraft seat to that results in the seat being way to high.
I've modified that flip bracket to work, but since it's a hack, no pic :D. But nobody rides over there anymore...
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Good luck with that. Looks like it'd snap right off in an accident. :eek:
 
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