Long time lurker here, hoping to become apart of this Land Rover world. So I just entered into the world of Land Rover with a bang.
I just purchased a 1998 Disco and the seats are pretty rough, among a bunch of other small issues. I've looked at several different options for replacing them or recovering them.

One question I had was can you pull the entire seat from a Disco II and put that into a Disco I? I have found a couple of really good looking Disco II seats locally, that have all of the motors and seat heaters still in them. But I wanted to reach out here and see what options I had.

Also how frequently do the seat motors go out? I pulled the drivers side switch, and cleaned and rebuilt it, and I still have two motors that aren't really doing much of anything(forward and backwards, and the rear vertical movement). I still have to check to fuses and see if the motors are some how bound up. But finding Disco I seat motors has proven to be a challenge.

 

I am going to do this, from what I read you need to modify the tracks some on d2 seats but doable

 

Someone has done this. You have to weld some small angle iron to the tracks if I remember correctly. Do a search you will find it. Very good write up with pics.

 

Basically anything will fit if you modify the brackets enough.
If you have the ability to weld it shouldn't be a problem.

 

This should help:
https://landroverforums.com/forum/di...-disco1-54948/

 

Awesome!!! Thanks for the link. So from all of you, how much better are the D2 seats? I'm really just wondering if it's worth the time. I have the parts and the ability. Just wondering if the seats are that much better.

 

There I can't really help - I've never even sat in a D1. I can tell you that the seats in my 2003 D2 are excellent, though

 

D2 seats are more like American car seats, comfy, d1 seats are like frigging old crappy tractor/backhoe seats, they suck and I hate them and mine are heated power I can only imagine how bad the manual ones are

The crappy d1 seats almost stopped my wife from letting me buy her the lr3, I assured her the seats would be more comfy

 

my leather 95 D1 seats with the plastic weird headrest are amazing. if the lumbar wasn't as worn as it is (i have it all the way out) these would be one of the best seats i've experienced in a car. i guess they are pretty different than the 96+ ones.

 

I gotta figure out something for the trashed seats in my '95. I'm either going to put my '98 seats in there or source some RSX seats.