Converting SUV bench seat to captain seats

Hi there guys

I have a question I need your expertis. I have a 2007 Honda CR-V with second row bench seats here is the photo

I want it to look like the SUVs with 2 captain chairs with arm rests

So, what brackets and railing types I can use for the convention?

Thanks

To be like this

Were captain’s chairs an option on that vehicle? If not, then you would not be able to order the needed parts from Honda.

Perhaps a body/collision shop could help you.

Ones you fabricate for yourself.

This is not a smart-donkey answer, it is reality.

I don’t know if this exists, if Honda offered captain’s chairs as an option, you would need to find a pair from a junkyard (not so easy with an 18 year old car) with ALL the bolts, brackets and seatbelts. Now remove your old seats. You might get lucky and find the bolt holes in the floor already to allow you to install the captain’s chairs. Yay!

If Honda never offered such seats, lets say you find some seats in the junkyard that more or less match your seats from some other car. Now YOU would need to make the adaptors to fit those seats into your CRV. They would be less safe for your passengers if you aren’t an engineer experienced in seat design and mounting. You might find a shop to mount them for you but more likely the answer would be a hard NO because the legal liability for the shop would be enormous.

All for an 18 year old SUV worth $4000 max. Sorry, reality bites.

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Look for a custom upholstery shop, if they can’t do it, no body will/can… As mentioned, to many ambulance chasers in the world for most shops to mess with it…

It doesn’t look like Honda offered a trim level with rear captain’s chairs. That means you will have to cobble something together. Are there captain’s chairs that fit? Maybe a later year CRV might have them and you could find some at a junk yard. You will also need seatbelts and probably airbags. There is also floor attachment and carpet to cover the new hole between the seats.

Pretty sure no year CRV had captain’s chairs. As others have said, if you really want this, and are willing to spend big to get it, go to a custom shop. We’re talking thousand+$, not hundreds, I’d guess.

You can buy them, but you need to determine if they’ll fit.

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Question got asked on a CRV forum, same answers as here, nobody said ‘yes, I’ve done it’. Only Youtube I could find was some shop in Indonesia.

I bet OP wants a divider between the 2 seats to keep kids apart.

Maybe, but it seems like child seats would accomplish that.

Our solution to the hair pulling was a minivan. The seats were far enough apart that they couldn’t get at each other. Before that all three were in the back seat of a Taurus. My most successful way to stop them was to call them by name: Moe, Larry and Curly. Amazingly the know who I was talking about and stopped fighting.

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Your current seats do block a lot of road noise and a CRV needs some quiet.

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