Rear Head Rests

Step 1

Go to a scrapyard and find an Orion ghia, they have rear head rests. Make sure you have your cordless drill with you and a sharp knife.

Step 2

Remove the head rests and fixings on top of the seats (the small black round parts that the headrest slides into), slash the rear seat open as violently as you like to expose the rear head rest brackets inside the seat. Drill out the rivets holding the brackets in, remove them and leave the scrapyard.

Step 3

Now the harder part (but not too hard!). Take out your back seat, seperate the two halves (the cushions from the frame), you will be left with two pieces of metal and two pieces of cushion. Get your new head rest brackets and try to position them on the inside of the seat frame... it doesn't work right? Well get a hammer and make the bracket get intimate with the seat frame. If you have got this far then thats the worst over with. Now weld the bracket to the frame (make sure you have lined them up properly, taking into account where the cushion will come to).

Step 4

Now back to the slashing again, start cutting away some of the foam from the inside of the seats to accommodate the protrusion from the brackets (don't cut too much or the seats will become uncomfortable). Once this is sorted put the cushion and frames back together.

Step 5

Now make holes in the top of the seat down into the head rest brackets, now put the black round plastic covers on to the top of bracket, pukka or what? Now the head rest can just slide in and be used the same as the front ones. Also note they are really comfortable!! The type of headrest you used can be easily changed, the legs that go down in to the bracket must be retained (they are smaller and closer together than those found in the front seats), but the top part of the head rest (another metal frame) can be swapped for other styles of head rest, XR2 or whatever you like (just two screws holding the head rest legs and top frame together).