This is an updated post written on 6th June 2025.
Consider this our journal because it has been a journey.
Before moving back to NZ, we knew the Todd Motors assembled Chargers have a somewhat different interior to the OZ counterparts. But until we stripped down some and took apart and studied what’s lacking, we did not realise how saggy the seats were.
The journey has been to fix the foundation first. This means working out why the seats were saggy to begin with. And it was not just because the Charger is 50 odd years old. Apparently the seats were saggy and un-supportive from new, which we could totally understand why after studying the construction of the seat frames.
So apart from replacing EVERY single factory seat spring in the bottom seats, we also discovered that the bottom seat frames had unused(!) holes in the frames which could take additional springs. Richard made up some new springs and added them to the back of the seat. As well as this, reinforcing springs were added to the middle and also to the two front folded springs. We each sat on the seat to test it out and we are now both satisfied that this newly ungraded seat would be better than before. Now we consider rebuilt seats to be better than factory!
