Captain chair to bench

I'm looking to swap 2 captain chair black leather for a bench seat black leather. Change in family needs. I'm Orlando. FL. Is anyone looking to do the opposite? We could trade.

No bench in my '17. There are three (3) separate seats and the outer pair are very similar to the "Captain's" seats just without arm rests. I know several folks here have converted from "bench" -- remember it's not a bench -- to separate seats by removing the center seat and adding arm rests. Reverse seems possible.

Should be threaded mounting holes for the middle seat under the carpet.

-- Chuck

Don’t forget seatbelts and wiring for seat belts.

Just added a middle seat to mine today

Looks great!

Want to share the details? Source of the center seat, ease of conversion, carpet, etc?

Are there seatbelt sensors on the 2d and 3d rows? Had Expeditions since 2007 and don't recall any.

-- Chuck

Yes please share the source of the center seat and how you installed the center seat between factory bucket seats with armrests?

Interested as well

Here is a really good link on how to do it. I converted mine to a bench. I found my seat on eBay for $450 after delivery from seller partsboxbelton. The seats can be pricy just keep your eye out. I then bought some black leather repair patch to cover the holes where the arm rests went. The only thing is this doesn't get you the ability to push a button in the back to fold the center down it is all manual. You have to get a new wiring harness and button just not worth it. Though you could wire one if the seats in parallel to control the middle and let's say the left one

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leulemes said:

I'm looking to swap 2 captain chair black leather for a bench seat black leather. Change in family needs. I'm Orlando. FL. Is anyone looking to do the opposite? We could trade.

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As far as I know, the “captain’s chairs” in the second row are literally the EXACT same chairs as the bench. The only difference for the “bench” seat is that the factory doesn’t add the inside armrests to the chairs and they bolt in a center seat. I ordered mine with the bench and it even still has the seat cut-outs where the armrests would’ve gone if they didn’t put in the center seat.

So you shouldn’t have to “swap” anything, just buy the center seat section and add it. There have been several people on here that have posted about doing it, and they’ve indicated it wasn’t too difficult.

PhoenixRizez said:

As far as I know, the “captain’s chairs” in the second row are literally the EXACT same chairs as the bench. The only difference for the “bench” seat is that the factory doesn’t add the inside armrests to the chairs and they bolt in a center seat. I ordered mine with the bench and it even still has the seat cut-outs where the armrests would’ve gone if they didn’t put in the center seat.

So you shouldn’t have to “swap” anything, just buy the center seat section and add it. There have been several people on here that have posted about doing it, and they’ve indicated it wasn’t too difficult.

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The turnoff to me is having to remove the armrest and repair the buckets where the armrests were. I'm sure there is some 3rd party center console with seat or actual seat that could retrofit between the buckets?