Anyone make a BMW seat into an office chair?

**G. P. Burdell** · 12-03-2003, 10:00 AM

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

**ponq** · 12-03-2003, 10:54 AM

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** · 12-03-2003, 11:03 AM

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** · 12-03-2003, 11:21 AM

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

No motors in that bitch!

**SilverBeam** · 12-03-2003, 01:19 PM

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** · 12-03-2003, 01:29 PM

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** · 12-03-2003, 01:32 PM

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** · 12-03-2003, 07:20 PM

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** · 12-03-2003, 08:04 PM

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

**bigmansM** · 12-03-2003, 11:36 PM

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!