Any non-armrest 200 series middle row 60/40 seats, or 40/20/40 without a folding arm rest, other places in the world?

[CharlieS]

I tore the second row of my my middle seat apart because it has a worn pivot part in the arm rest. The ($5) part is not replaceable by itself (grrrrr). I've got ideas about how to cobble it together, but don't want to do a hack.

I also have no use for the folding armrest, so I'm thinking about whether I could just replace it with a solid 60 seat back from a 60/40 split seat, or a 40/20 seat back that doesn't have a folding arm rest part.

Are there any ROW 200 models that have a 60/40 seat, or a 40/20/40 without a folding arm rest? Which model? Which countries?

Maybe I can source a second row seat back... It's probably cost prohibitive, but I'd like to explore it.

 

[CharlieS]

I just had an alternate thought after I posted this - maybe I can just find an upholstery shop to make me a matching seat cover for the 20 section and just leave out all of those unnecessary (to me) armrest parts. Pad it out with some foam to fill the space and cover it with matching leather. That might just be the ticket.

 

[Fisher23]

Seats from a wrecking yard are usually really cheep. There is a computer network system that connects all the wrecking yards and they can see what all the other yards have in stock.

 

[CharlieS]

Any chance you have a link handy? Google search didn't pull up anything useful.

 

[bloc]

I believe he's referring to car-part.com but I'm not sure how it would help, as that seat config wasn't offered here.

You got me curious so I dug into the parts programs. They do make what you are asking for in the gulf, but no airbags.

 

[CharlieS]

Thanks. Maybe I can find a cheap low mileage 60% side replacement to toss in there? Thanks for the address!

 

[Fisher23]

Any chance you have a link handy? Google search didn't pull up anything useful.

It is not available to the public for free. I forget the name of it. You need a subscription, user-ID and password to use it.
What I do is call my local wrecking yard and they look for me. They usually want the part number.
Then they can see every wrecking yard that has the part that uses this system.

The problem with wrecking yard parts though is they likely didn't check to see if that part of the seat was working correctly.

My self I'd likely go with liquid weld or something similar.