This video describes how to turn around the seat in the 2nd row of a Nissan NV Passenger van. I have a 2015 NV 3500 SL model, but I’m pretty sure this should work fine in all years 2012-present.
As requested i’m gonna show you how you can turn the second row seat backwards in the nissan nv i have a 2015 3500 sl passenger van but i would expect this would work in all the vans 12 through 15 right now i have the 2 pot of seats in the second row in the forward position though i’ve already unclipped the back so i can be ready to turn it around one thing i want
To note is note how the legs are not centered under the seat so the closed leg is right at the edge of the seat there’s another leg right in the middle and then the seat overhangs on the left side when you turn the seat around that overhang will overhang where the single seat would go in the second row which is why i have the cover plates in i’ll just have two seats
In the second row here’s a close-up of the seat mounts on the far right side of the van right behind the driver’s seat the reason a lot of people think it’s impossible to turn the seats around is because of the width of the mount points for the front and the back they are clearly thinner but they are not too thin also notice the two mount points this is for the
Forward position this is for the extended legroom position one thing you will note is you cannot turn around the seat in the forward position without modifying you know perhaps cutting this hole a little bit bigger with a you know a disc grinder or something i may do that but i’m not going to show that today you can turn this turn the seat around into the more rear
Position the extended leg room position to face the back and then you could of course put the third row further back in the extended leg room position as well we don’t do that currently which when the seat is turned around there’s only about 10 inches between the seats it is kind of tight here you see the only tool i’m going to use today and you also see that my
Front forks are a little bit scratched up so i showed you the seat mount points were pretty skinny in the back mine actually fit in without modification i am going to use the clamp just to show you how i made it a little bit easier so i didn’t have to force it so hard and it slides in real easily you may need to do a little bit more modification depending on how
Thick your welds are on your rear mount points but like i said without modification i could turn mine around and force it in a little bit hard you can see it kind of scratch some of the paint off what we’re going to do is basically take the clamp and just squeeze these metal forks together ever so slightly i only did it for 30 seconds maybe only brought these about
A sixteenth of an inch closer together just to make it easier to go in and out here you can see i’ve squeezed the the forks in just a little bit maybe an eighth of an inch you can see it’s squeezing this rubber landing pad a little bit but when i remove the clamp these will spread out again and i will have only moved in these these two forks just about a sixteenth
Of an inch now i’m gonna put the seat into the with the seat in the rear position you can clearly see the overhang now we actually keep a little tub there under the under the overhang the other thing i want to show you is when you have three seats in the back and the two turned around they do offset each other so even though there’s only about i don’t know 10 to
12 inches between the seats everyone’s legs are offset from themselves so you don’t have quite a lot of me bumping of course i have small kids you can see several car seats here they don’t have their feet overhanging the seat very much anyway but that’s how you can turn the seat around in a nissan nd one last quick note i did move both of the driver and passenger
Front seats extra far forward just while i was behind the seat manipulating it around i will move them back but in this rear position even you have to have the seats forward a little bit also it does create a nice little storage place behind this second row we keep a nice tub in there allows us to throw some bags and things in there it’s pretty convenient
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Nissan NV Passenger Van Rear-facing 2nd Row Seat By mazinbenny