Reviews for Corbeau E2050NS Driver Side Seat Adapter for 03-06 Jeep Wrangler TJ & Unlimited

Very happy with the tilt mounts...highly recommend

Took some time with a buddy to get this to line up with the stock seat mounts. Holes didn't line up perfectly. With some elbow grease we got it in and works great.

These adapters are well built and function properly but they were a pain in the arse to install. I had to drill out the holes to get them to line up. They also add 2 inches of height to the stock seat height which is taking time to get used to as I’m 6’2.

i bought these because I wanted to keep the functionality of the fold and tilt of the factory seat because I throw stuff behind the seat all the time.

First things first, the instructions that came with the product and the ones posted on this site (they are different) are useless. Neither of these had anything at all to do with the product provided, the pictures didn't match the product and the process on the instructions that came in the box only addresses removing the old seats but no guidance at all on installing the bracket or what to do with the release cables.

The bolts for the release mechanism were too long and needed to be cut in order for the mechanism to function at all.

As previously mentioned, none of the bolt holes lined up to mount the adapter to the bracket. We had to drill all of them out in order to get anything to line up at all. it took pretty much three of us hold the seat and manhandling the bracket to get the bolts in.

Also as stated this bracket makes the seat sit about 1.5" higher. When I was sitting in my stock seat evaluating the impact of the extra 1.5" it seemed like I had more than enough headroom to accommodate the extra height. It may be a combination of the extra 1.5" and the new seat but there is not much headroom left at all and I'll probably need to add some roll bar padding to be on the safe side. Also the extra height with a slightly taller seat creates a clearance problem on the fold and tilt where the seat hits the roll bar (Poison Spider Trail Cage).

I like the look of the seats and the intent of the functionality of the bracket but will probably be fabricating my own before long. Definitely not worth the steep cost for a less than effective product. The extra height is nice for line of sight off road--til you knock yourself out on the cage.

Going to give these a low rating unfortunately, as:
- Design of seat release to allow passengers in the back is really bad. I can't get mine to work and there is a long bolt that interferes with the existing seat bracket.
- extra inch of heigh as mentioned by other customers is a bit of getting used to.
- bolt hole tolerance is 0mm. You have the seat on its side to install these bolts, but the weight of the seat makes is incredible difficult to line up. I was running with 3/4 bolts for a while before fixing.
- the price is insane for a fabricated piece. If you have the skills, make your own. These are nothing special.

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".

The holes don't line up nicely at all, a trick I'd recommend for other is to use the bolts you pulled out of the other seats as they are longer and give you more play, my other huge issue is the adapter lifts you up, I am 6-2 and now my head hits the main hoop of cage and I sit way too high