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Posted By : Dean Rayner, 09-Sep-2006,
03:30pm
Hi
Has anyone got these fitted to a car with a soft top? I appear to be having great problems with clearance at the top of the seet.
When the hood is down the hood frame juts into the rear of the seat, which has to be pulled as far forward as possible. I can't drive it like this!!!
To get the hood frame down, it takes two strong people with care and patience. To pull the frame arround the upper quarters of the seats.
Your experiences would be welcome
Dean
Club Buckets and MK III Spit
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Posted By : Michael Charlton, 09-Sep-2006,
04:47pm
Which seats are these ?
Mike
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Posted By : Jonathan Binnington,
09-Sep-2006, 07:38pm
caution, photographic genius in action
can't make out what the problem is, care to expand?
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Posted By : Dean Rayner, 09-Sep-2006,
08:05pm
These seats - bought from the club shop.
The problem (other than my photographic ability) is the seat are too wide. The will not allow the hood to lower.
You can eventually lower the hood by prizing it past the seats, but only if the seats are fully forwards. Not a good position for driving.
Basically the top of the seat where your right sholder blade is too wide.
Club Buckets and MK III Spit
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Posted By : Colin Wake,
09-Sep-2006, 08:18pm
try putting some spacers under the outside half of the seat runner to tilt the top of the seat inwards.
Colin
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Posted By : Chris Taylor,
09-Sep-2006, 11:55pm
I'd have a word with the club shop on this one. For seats being sold by THE club specialising in Spitfires, to apparently not fit one of
the most popular Spitfires is a little worrying.
These seats have been sold by the club for some time now so I would expect someone else has experienced this issue (and perhaps found a
solution).
If the seats do NOT fit, then at the least the Club Shop should be issuing some sort of caveat to potential purchasers. The problem may not
exist with Mk1 and Mk2 Spits which have a different hood mechanism, and there may be a little more space in a Mk4/1500, but the Mk3 is
hardly a rarity!
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Posted By : Michael Charlton, 10-Sep-2006,
00:05am
The seats are obviously not right.
Any bespoke/original should fit and have plenty of space for hood frame to lift without any 'jer,jer,jiggling'
You should take this up with the club shop
Mike
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Posted By : Tony Beverley, 10-Sep-2006,
03:13pm
Hi we had the same problem, when we bought the Mk3 last year, she had sports seats in and both of them had nasty tears where the hood frame had
been digging in, I've nearly finished rebuilding her now and am in the process of fitting the seats from my Mk2 into the Mk3 because of the
seating problem, like someone said earlier, the hood frame on the Mk2 shouldn't cause a problem, that doesn't help people who want these sports
seats in their Mk3's
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Posted By : Dean Rayner,
11-Sep-2006, 11:12pm
Hi
Just to let you know.
The hood has now been fitted by TRGB and a fine job they made of it too!
The chap fitting the hood noticed the part where the hood frame connects to the headder rail was not pivoting like it should. (I didn't
know it should move!!) So when the hood is being lowered it allows the frame to move slightly outwards to clear the seats.
That said, it is still a two man job, but there is some chance that it may be useable. I intend to file the mounting frame bolt holes to
shift the seats inwards a little and add a small packing piece to tilt the seats slightly towards the centre of the car.
I will let you know.........
Dean
Club Buckets and MK III Spit - Update
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Posted By : Kevin
Rochfort, 12-Sep-2006, 00:05am
Dean,
Nice looking car.
Don't forget to bring it along to the All Triumph Day at Duxford this comming Sunday (17th Sept) for us all to drool over.
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Posted By : Andrew Sanderson, 28-Dec-2006,
03:19pm
I have the same problem with my mk3 spit and bucket seats (not club).But being over 6FT I have to have the seat as far back as possible and if the
seats are on runners my head is above the wind screen frame. So seat is bolted straight to floor pan and tilted inward,(not a great look). But still
the hood frame catches the corner of the seats. One other problem I have found is that I now cannot wind windows up or down, leg in the way (my leg)
Any one fitted electic windows in a spit?
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Posted By : Colin Wake, 28-Dec-2006,
04:18pm
Philip Willcocks had occassionally working Electric Windows in his Mk3 Spitfire before it caught fire.
So it can be done.
Cheers
Colin
