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I bought these seats for my recently purchased 1997 Wrangler Sahara. The stock seats were old, worn out, and must have gotten wet in the car's past life as they had an unpleasant odor about them.
The seat itself is decent quality, though uncomfortable for me as the seat bottom bolsters make for a tight squeeze. I am 6'2" and 220 pounds, so figured it was just that I am a big guy. But a woman friend of mine who is all of 125 pounds says they are uncomfortable for her, too for the same reason. Not terrible for around town, but I won't be making any long trips in my jeep.
My real problem is the quality of the mounting and installation materials. Though the brackets included let you install this in pretty much any recent Jeep, the materials were shoddy. Installation was a pain to begin withthere were no instructions included so I had to download them from the internet. Once I did, they were not clear at alllots of detail on how to remove your old seat, but installation of mounting hardware is given as "use the bolts, nuts, and nut plates included to install as shown in the diagram and figure...". Not intuitive, and you can barely see the pictures. It is very difficult to make out orientation of the parts. The diagram provided simply highlights which holes to use, but doesn't show how to orient the parts. Also, I am pretty sure the pictures of driver and passenger side seats are backwards, making it all the more confusing.
Also, the "nut plates' are four long, narrow metal plates with a nut welded on the end. Great ideashould have made it easy to push the nut into the corners (once you figure out which holes to use) and drive the bolt through to attach the seat mounts. However... of the 8 nut plates that came with my 2 seats, 5 were screwed up so bad during the manufacturing process that they couldn't be used. When they welded the nuts on, several nuts had slag from the weld inside the threaded hole; on several others the holes were not threaded properly, and on one the nut was half missing from welding damage. This made it impossible to use these parts, and I spent hours fishing nuts and washers up into the seat cushion corners and then fishing a wrench onto the nuts to secure the bolts. Also, the bolts included were about 4 inches longcrazy, because it I used them they would have gone all the way up into the seat bottom cushion. What should have been an hour job took me the better part of a day and two trips to the hardware store.
The plastic trim pieces used to cover the seat hinges were cheap tooboth broke when I tried to install them according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Once I finally got them installed, they look great but are not very comfortable. Wish I had bought something else. I will have a hard time buying from Rugged Ridge again, given the shoddy overall materials and workmanship.
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