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What a well timed post! I recently discovered this myself as needing to upgrade from a single passenger seat to a double ahead of our 1 year olds first festival in a couple of weeks!

Was lucky enough to find a Mk2 Expert at the local scrap yard with the double seat in good condition. Bolt holes in the seat frame line up perfectly with the holes in floor of our van from where I've taken the old seat out. Result!

Now for the fun and games, and where I could do with some advice if possible? I went out to fit the new seat this evening, expecting a quick job, but have run into an issue.

I intended to remove the bolts from the frame that came with the new seat, in favour of reusing the bolts that came with the seat that I have taken out from our van, as I know with confidence that these will fit the floor of the van without me needing to drill into the chassis to modify.

However, I've run into some difficulty removing the bolts from the frame of the new seat (all of which are the thicker size and so will not all fit in the existing holes in the floor of the van).

As you can see, the bolt type is different to Torx ones that came with the original seat (and what I can see you have on your van in the above picture)

But I'm struggling to take these bolts off, as it appears to me that the wheel nut style nuts that are in use, are the wrong way around!? So I am not able to get the socket wrench on it to remove!

Is this by design, or has someone put the nuts on the wrong way? Either way, the result is that I can't get enough grip on the nut to hold it in place whilst I use a socket on the bolt. So the whole lot just spins around without loosening, or tightening.

Am I going to have to get a bolt cutter or something on these to break them off?! I'm hoping I'm just being dense here and missing something really obvious!

Thanks guys, have enjoyed reading through and seeing the pictures in the camper conversions sub-forum. Can see I already am running into the same issues/questions that others have which is encouraging.

First step this weekend is see what I can do with getting a better seal on the sliding doors. Seems I have the same issue that many have come across, in that over time the door isn't sitting quite as flush as you'd hope.

I'm less worried about the noise when driving, more about the fact I get quite a bit of a leak when the rain is particularly heavy!

After I've got it water-tight, it's insulation and ply-lining.