Can anyone bring me up to speed on what is available now to turn the standard Ford E350 seats in a Class C into swivel seats ---- especially if the coach floor is 3-4 inches higher than the cockpit floor.Called Discount Van and Truck and got a very vague answer if they had something that would fit ........ and a comment about it might only swivel part way.Just came back from the RV show in California and Coachmen was chest pounding about a new swivel base made only for them by Atwood. I think you have to have a level floor for this to work as it won't clear the floor in coach if higher than cockpit floor. Demonstrations were awkward as salespeople struggled to get it to slide 45 degrees towards rear of coach and then swivel around.Please let me hear what you've got on all of this.Thanks

This post is 11 years old and Jeff hasn't been on here in 2 years so not sure if you'll get a response. But the pictures show the seats swivel and face rearward. If by go to the back you mean move around the rv, I would think you could do that swiveled or not.

I did see that thread - but there were two things there that would not be applicable - it is on a Chev with smaller doghouse and it also appears the floor of the coach and the cockpit are level with each other. Appliction I am looking at has a 3-4" floor difference which might cause clearance problems when seat swivels and then you also have to think about the person's legs coming to rest on a higher surface. Coachmen rep said the floor heights not being the same are why other manufacturers don't have swivel seats.

I would like to find the same kind of swivel passenger seat, because my Itasca's coach floor is 3-4 inches higher than it's E450 cab floor. I would even like a passenger swivel seat that could be raised a bit when swiveled so as to put the swiveled passenger seat up higher to almost match the other coach seating heights whenever the cab seat was swiveled to face backwards.By the way, the reason that coach floors are higher than cab floors is to provide a "basement area" along the outer under-sides of the coach. For example, our Itasca has taller outside storage cabinets for much better storage than Class C rigs with the coach and cab floors being the same height. I consider this a good feature of a Class C, even though it means that the readily available simple passenger seat swivels makes necessary almost a straight-out leg position for the person sitting in the swiveled passenger seat.

Here is quote from Forest River forum on the one they are using now - which I believe is the same Atwood product that Coachmen is using. So back to the same problems as stated in my opening post.Forest River Class C Motorhomes No. The floor is too high to allow the seat to swivel. When we do them from the factory we notch the floor.

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pnichols
Explorer II
Oct 23, 2013
I would like to find the same kind of swivel passenger seat, because my Itasca's coach floor is 3-4 inches higher than it's E450 cab floor. I would even like a passenger swivel seat that could be raised a bit when swiveled so as to put the swiveled passenger seat up higher to almost match the other coach seating heights whenever the cab seat was swiveled to face backwards.

By the way, the reason that coach floors are higher than cab floors is to provide a "basement area" along the outer under-sides of the coach. For example, our Itasca has taller outside storage cabinets for much better storage than Class C rigs with the coach and cab floors being the same height. I consider this a good feature of a Class C, even though it means that the readily available simple passenger seat swivels makes necessary almost a straight-out leg position for the person sitting in the swiveled passenger seat.
oregon2
Explorer
Oct 23, 2013
I did see that thread - but there were two things there that would not be applicable - it is on a Chev with smaller doghouse and it also appears the floor of the coach and the cockpit are level with each other. Appliction I am looking at has a 3-4" floor difference which might cause clearance problems when seat swivels and then you also have to think about the person's legs coming to rest on a higher surface. Coachmen rep said the floor heights not being the same are why other manufacturers don't have swivel seats.
wbwood
Explorer
Oct 23, 2013
Check out this thread.

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