Anyone make a BMW seat into an office chair?

[G. P. Burdell]

Has anyone ever converted a factory BMW seat into an office chair? I'm not talking about the powered computer chair

[ponq]

Sounds heavy and expensive, but I would definitely rock one in the office. I actually would like a vader.

You would need a very heavy base to bolt a car chair on to.

[Ludicious]

Well... it seems most of your weight would be in the frame and motors... which you wouldn't need for an office chair. I have a friend that worked at a place that built leather car seats... and he said they had various ones made into office chairs.

Would be pretty cool...

[MR 325]

An E#) sport seat would do fine with me!

No motors in that bitch! :)

[SilverBeam]

If I ever took my seats out for racing seats, and just had two stock E46 seats lying around. Sure, I'd make them into an office chair. It would take a little bit of work, but less money than buying a new chair. The only disadvantage I could see would be the lack of an arm rest, but I'm sure a little ingenuity could fix that too. And since I don't have motorized controls, the E46 seats would work well... damnit, now I need Recaros so I can have a sweet E46 office chair.

I'd rather use the seat out of a 7. Something ubber comfortable with lumbar support. Now THAT is the ultimate office chair. May be heavy and unsupportive in a car, but quite nice while at a desk, I would imagine. But I have a bad back, which is the only reason I cringe at the idea of sitting on a vader while at the computer all day.

[racecar]

doesn't sparco or recaro already have something like this?

also, how the hell do you even get into the seat on that thing

[G. P. Burdell]

Recaro and others sell complete, ready-made office chairs. But we're talking about taking our favorite BMW seats and making them into office chairs.

[ponq]

I've got a few old office chairs, more of a safety risk than anything sitting around the office, if anyone has some old seats. I could weld up a bracket to bolt the seat onto the post, and we have a test chair.

Now who has a chair?!?!

Hell, I'd be willing to make a comfortable living room chair w/o castors.

[Evan e21]

Ive seen a few on ebay that people have made, i think a Vader office cair would look sick!!!!

[bigmansM]

I was thinking of this actually, i was going to put a sparco and pull my vader out and use it as an office chair. Damn somone beat me to it, scratch that!

[tylerblue]

My friend made his stock seats into TV chairs, does that count?

[v.b.]

vadar office chair

[tEckniks]

vader seats would be a pretty tight office chair

[sirtiger]

that is a funny chair...haha...

[montaillou]

Holy thread resurrection, Batman!