Reviews for Corbeau E2051NS Passenger Side Seat Adapter for 03-06 Jeep Wrangler TJ & Unlimited

Highly recommend them

Works great but the instructions really didn't help much. It is difficult to install but I think that it is worth it to keep the tumble feature.

They add 2 inches of height to standard seat height. Great product but hard to install. I had to drill out the holes

I originally posted this on Corbeau's site, but they seem to have scrubbed it because it's negative. I'll post it here so the rest of the Jeep community gets to see it. To their credit, I raised holy heck with Corbeau about the problems below and they refunded me for the brackets. But, the story still needs telling. Original review:

The short story is, Corbeau should be embarrassed to sell these. They look like a high school shop project, and the "linkage" to actuate the tumble feature is ridiculous.

The tabs that mount to the existing tumble bracket are not well-designed for structural stability. This is a safety item, keeping the seat in place during a crash, and the full force of your body is held in place with cheesy looking welds on a bent tab. It should really have some gussets for safety. The tabs look like they were bent on a bench vise instead of a brake or, you know, using actual angle. The holes were in totally different positions on each of the brackets I got, neither of which lined up well with the factory bracket, but in different ways. The driver side one was so bad I had to wrestle with it and drill out holes for hours trying to get it to line up. The powder coating (or paint or whatever it is) is all compromised as a result of all the violence I had to impart to make it fit.

The tumble "lever" is a hilarious rube-goldberg sort of thing, which is flimsy and rattles against the bracket and the seat. It doesn't have a return spring, detents, or anything. Every time you operate it, you better be sure you get it fully back to the resting position. If you don't, you could leave the tumble bracket half-actuated, which could, again, be a safety thing if it were to slide forward while you're driving (or in a crash). On both of mine, the bolt that provides the pivot point for the rube-goldberg machine was *WAY* too long and contacted the factory bracket very strong, and wouldn't even move. The short arm was also bent significantly, making it worse. On both brackets, I had to replace the supplied bolt *and* bend the arm to be horizontal before it would move freely and actuate the way it was supposed to. My guess is they ran out of the right size bolt and some apprentice that assembles these just used something else. Seriously, it's like twice as long as it should be.

If I had known how bad this was, I wouldn't have bought it and would have just fabbed up something myself. But, I had scratched up and modified these ridiculously-expensive brackets by the time I got it all to work, so now I'm stuck with two of these $140 "shop projects." I will go back and figure out some better way to actuate the tumble mechanism, and will weld in some gussets while I'm there for safety.

Corbeau, I hope you're listening... You should remove these from your site, or lower the cost and change the name to "template for a real solution".