I repurposed an 80s Toyota car seat as my new desk chair and all I'm wondering is why the fuck more people aren't doing this. Comfiest AND cheapest desk chair I've ever had by a huge margin.
God I fucking hate this piece of shit phone why's the fucking picture flipped son of a bitch
>>2784651great idea Anon! I'll definetely keep this in mind next time I see a disposed car seat.
>>2784651desk chairs have better support, don't weigh a ton, have arm rests, don't require modification, and are cheap as fuck
How many people have farted in that chair, though?
>>2784651I've been meaning to do this exact project for a year now but put it off till after winter thaws. What did you use for leg structure and how did you mount it? I had figured the sturdier nature would neccesitate a lower structure more similar to a bar stool but it looks as though in your case a regular office chair supports it well enough. Also how heavy was it? Did you take it out of the vehicle yourself or was it already removed for some reason.
>>2784660Not enough for my liking
>>2784651Nice stains. How many times did you shit in that seat?
>>2784690Only once…brussel sprouts and beer
I like arm rests.
>>2784657But it's comfy and also cheap as fuck>>2784660see >>2784663>>2784661>What did you use for leg structure and how did you mount it?Hand-me-down DXracer base. Seating portion was completely rooted. Cut a 3/4" plywood piece to the size of the seat rails, bolted the board to the base and then the seat to the board. It's jank but it works.>Also how heavy was it? Did you take it out of the vehicle yourself or was it already removed for some reasonNo heavier than the DXracer that came off of it. I know a guy who hoards spare parts for my exact model of Toyota (Starlet EP71) and I asked him if he had a spare seat laying around.>>2784690This was just after assembly. I just hit it with a wet vac the same day. Brand spankers ever since>>2784704You can just attach some if you want them
They look surprisingly good with a set of matching arms, I took all the rails off mine to keep weight down.>>2784738>But it's comfy and also cheap as fuckCan confirm, they make surprisingly comfy office chairs.
>>2784651because they are heavy af, most would be tippy backwards and the chair part of the chair is rarely what fails. that said I've seen plenty of repurposed car seats at anywhere that has or works on junk cars.>>27846524chan doesn't process metadata, metadata that says which orientation the photo is. the photo when posted will ALWAYS be "bottom to the right". cropping, open+rotate+save in almost any app or just holding your phone right (always landscape with bottom to the right). my problem is my pics are often too big for 4chammels faggot limits.
How many times have you seen a car seat with 100k miles on it, and the seat is cracked or deformed or otherwise worn out?100,000 miles at (avg) 30 mph is 3333 hours of seat time.I bought a cheap Ikea chair three years ago. I work 40 hours a week at my desk job, so in three years that's AT LEAST 6200 hours of my ass sitting in this chair.My Ikea desk chair is still practically "like new," and it looks a hell of a lot better than any car seat I've ever seen with half as many ass-hours in it.
I do my internet browsing on a hard wooden chair. Because I don't live on the computer.
>>2784827Leather just looks like that. Seat in the OP came out of a 120k mile car. Cloth and foam padding are all fine. Granted it's a passenger seat, but point stands. Driver seat was also in good condition.>>2784792>and the chair part of the chair is rarely what failsThe only reason I even thought this would be a good idea is because car seats are in my experience far more durable than office chairs. Foam cushioning completely flattening, pleather peeling away looking like the ending scene of Terminator 2. I figured if car seats stand up to 30 or more years of abuse and managing to still look good, surely they can handle a few more years in a home
>>2784651show how it looks from behind and from bottom side
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>>2785022And the seat back
>>2784651>I repurposed a chair as a chairit's hilarious how serious you are
>>2784651actually did this with a 4th gen mitsubishi eclipse passenger seat I got out of a junkyard probably 7 years ago now, cut the tracks off of it welded an 1/8 inch steel plate to the bottom of the remaining structure then welded the existing structure of a worn out desk chair to it9/10 would do again retards are paying way too much for gaming chairs and don't even get the option of reclining (if you balance it right, which I did )
I mounted a high back swivel bucket out of a 73 monte carlo on my monkey ward riding mower it was titts….people driving by just laughed. A recliner would have been epic
>>2784651I met a guy who did this. Had a near fatal experience when the hydraulic piston in his office seat failed and it fired a rod up into his buttocks. He nearly bled to death. (Surprise butt sex!)He got a seat from a 1984 or '85 Toyota Celica Supra. Super comfy.
>>2784651>40 years of mold, water, sharts, piss, dust, food droppings
This would be kind of cool if you did it with a fancy seat from a newer model luxury car and connected power to it so you had a chair that was heated, cooled, lumbar massage, etc. and just in general significantly more comfortable than some beat up old seat from a 30+ year old shit box. But getting one of those would probably cost so much that you might as well just buy a fancy office chair unless you somehow find a parts puller that doesn’t give a fuck about reselling valuable pieces
>>2785065I repurposed a car seat to function instead as a desk chair you pedant.>>2785197Idk if you got the memo but you can just clean things.>>2785209It would be cool but it'd also be a lot more expensive, a lot less durable long term, the "it's heavier" argument would actually make sense, and I think you underestimate how comfy 80s car seats are. I'd much rather this than a newer economy car seat, that's for damn sure.
I saw a photo once of someone who had done that with an ejection seat. I've always thought it was cool as hell.
>>2784657Good vehicle seats are far better engineered and more rugged then office chairs. One of mine is attached to a power recliner base on a dolly I fabbed with locking casters so even in eventual crippledom I shall be comfy.
>>2784827Cars are a far less temperature controlled environment than an office and are slid on and off rather than sat on.
>>2784651im on my second one.make sure you get the ones that are sprung underneath.
>>2785209upick junkyards are kino because they don't give af, a seat is just a seat.
>>2785209The key is you have to live within driving distance of a Pick-N-Pull junkyard to get one yourself. If you have to get one shipped, forget about it. But if you can go physically get it junkyards generally don't differentiate between 100k car seats and an OBS Ford car seat. They all have a 'seat' price, typically $50-$70. Find the nicest car you can see and grab the passenger seat since they will always have less wear than the driver's. Pic, a junkyard's price guide I just pulled.
alls I need it to be is wide and the ability to hold 700 lbs
>>2785237>Idk if you got the memo but you can just clean things.Not thick, multi-layered fabric car seats. You will never be able to them thoroughly clean
>>2786301yep, you can. remove the entire seat cover, and put it in the god damn washing machine. did it with my car after spilling protein shake into the passenger seat and it ran down between the seat and back.
>>2784743>ancient white brick on the deskis that the rosetta stone
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>>2785190I heard of this happening and saw a video of such a thing in extremely cheap Chinese chairs in China as well, because they lacked the steel plate underneath to protect you from such an incident.>>2784651put a sheet of steel or something on top of that plywood between you and the hydraulics.
>>27846524chan doesn't republish image metadata because one time metadata accidentally revealed that MH370 was a hoax to get the US into a war in Ukraine.
>>2787010i'm not seeing what this unnecessarily blurry image proves. the post was made 11 days after the disappearance and manifest was made public. anyone could've posted it.
