Check out eBay for bench seats *specific* to the model year you’re interested in. Purchase the bench seat prior to purchasing the vehicle you want. Get leather. It’s tough, forgiving and most of all, after a good detail it comes back to new. Make sure you purchase one with seat heaters & electric tumble. If your new truck doesn’t have them no biggie. If your new truck has heated captains and electric tumble seats, the 60/40 bench seats are a straight swap. Only the outbound two bench seats are heated though.
Use the crating from the bench seat to sell / send the captains chairs back to the company you purchased the bench from. You can even use the same carrier and know the pricing.
Our 08 Denali XL AWD had the rear leather, heated 60/40 bench. Like the captains chairs, they can be triggered to automatically tumble forward for access to the 3row seats. Look for that feature when shopping for a bench too. Again, this is all a bolt in, plug in, factory modification if the replacement vehicle you find has heated tumble captain chairs.
When we sold the Denali in May, the heated, tumble 60/40 bench seat and its concealed center cup holder & armrest was a huge selling point to the buyer for all her grandkids.
Hope this helps knowing to shop for the seat rather than the truck. We did the same thing for our 02 Audi allroad. We found a hens teeth 6SP M trans wagon mated to the 2.7t motor equipped with heated seats. We unbolted the rear facing 3rd row seats and all the specialized parts from an equipped allroad slushbox and swapped them into our 6SP M wagon.
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