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Swivels from Amazing Auto / SprinterSwivel.com

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Has anyone tried seat swivels from Amazing Auto LLC, the website is www.spinterswivel.com ?

I like the price, and the swivel looks good. I just hate to order and not know if they are junk. They claim the same swivel works for both passenger and driver, but I would think that would mean they would both swivel the same direction (clockwise or counter-clockwise). Will that work?

Thanks for any info!
 
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#22 ·
IMO
I thought I recognized those, he has these on ebay, Dodge Promaster Van Swivel | eBay, when I looked at the welds and saw them on aliexpress I figured for the same price I'll get some CTA's that meet EU specs.
Actually CTA's are less then those.

Here's were they come from before someone welds the mounting bars on.
Buy car seat swivel and get free shipping on AliExpress
It says on the website Amazing Auto LLC. "This is not the cheap quality swivel that sale on AliExpress, please DO NOT even compare them, there are two different level products."
 
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I just bought one of these and it is a total pain! The bolt holes don’t exactly line up and the seatbelt buckle doesn’t allow it to swivel. It will need lots of modifications to work.

I thought maybe I got the wrong one so I sent a message asking. The response I received was:

“Hello, this swivel fitting sprinter, pro master and transit
Best regards
Mark Wen”

I haven’t been able to get any other detailed information or follow up from the company.

I would strongly encourage everyone to steer away from these and go with something more specialized and with better customer service!
 
#13 ·
I just bought one of these and it is a total pain! The bolt holes don’t exactly line up and the seatbelt buckle doesn’t allow it to swivel. It will need lots of modifications to work.

I thought maybe I got the wrong one so I sent a message asking. The response I received was:

“Hello, this swivel fitting sprinter, pro master and transit
Best regards
Mark Wen”

I haven’t been able to get any other detailed information or follow up from the company.

I would strongly encourage everyone to steer away from these and go with something more specialized and with better customer service!
send a photo of the swivel you received
 
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I started this thread so I guess I should post an update here. I ended up going with CTA swivels ordered from the UK from Leisure Lines. About $380 for both swivels including shipping. I never got a good feeling about these amazing Auto swivels. I was concerned they were built in somebody's garage.

Blog post with more info on my install:
 
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Update:

2019 Dodge Ram Promaster 1500. 6-way adjustable seats with lumbar support.

Bought swivel base on eBay from Amazing Auto LLC, Mark Wen.

I decided to bite the bullet and grind off part of the ‘J’ shaped metal piece under the seatbelt buckle. I think I took off about a 1/2”, so that it was even with the bottom of the black metal (lowest point of seatbelt buckle parts). I’m happy I didn’t need to grind off anything else close to the seat belt buckle attachment.

After doing that, the seatbelt buckle cleared when the seat rotated. Yay! I also had to trim the bottom of the black plastic cover about 3/8” so that the cover would also clear when rotating.

I bought six sets of 1” bolts, small washers for inside the rails, larger washers for below the swivel base, and lock nuts. With these parts (not included with base) and the quick cuts, the Amazing Auto swivel base was very easy to install.

There is a little bit of play when it is in a locked position and some of the edges are a little sharp. Otherwise, it works great and I am happy with the outcome.

I wish they would have told me what modifications and parts I would need, included some sort of instructions with the product, or that their customer support was a little better. It would have saved me lots of time on-line, trying to size the bolts, and worrying about cutting into anything.

In the end it worked out and hopefully this post can help others down the road.

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Cut off bottom of plastic cover.

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Bolt head and small washer, from top.

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Large washer and lock but on bottom.
 
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Has anyone tried seat swivels from Amazing Auto LLC, the website is www.spinterswivel.com ?

I like the price, and the swivel looks good. I just hate to order and not know if they are junk. They claim the same swivel works for both passenger and driver, but I would think that would mean they would both swivel the same direction (clockwise or counter-clockwise). Will that work?

Thanks for any info!
It says on the website Amazing Auto LLC. "The only swivel that has ALL IN ONE design: with our universal design, this swivel not just fits both driver and passenger sides but it also fits multiple (make/model/year) vans with different parts that come with the swivel. (one swivel fit both driver side and passenger side all you need just flip it)."
 
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Has anyone tried seat swivels from Amazing Auto LLC, the website is www.spinterswivel.com ?

I like the price, and the swivel looks good. I just hate to order and not know if they are junk. They claim the same swivel works for both passenger and driver, but I would think that would mean they would both swivel the same direction (clockwise or counter-clockwise). Will that work?

Thanks for any info!
Hello

this swivel is an old model, only 1 1/4 inch height. we have solved this problem, you need to place two 1/2 inch height square tube. so you can turn easily.

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Has anyone tried seat swivels from Amazing Auto LLC, the website is www.spinterswivel.com ?

I like the price, and the swivel looks good. I just hate to order and not know if they are junk. They claim the same swivel works for both passenger and driver, but I would think that would mean they would both swivel the same direction (clockwise or counter-clockwise). Will that work?

Thanks for any info!
Hello , Our new swivel is designed to slove this issue with new height 1-1/2inch. Also our new swivel is designed for heavy duty use case as well with thickness 4mm sheetmetal.
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#33 ·
Has anyone tried seat swivels from Amazing Auto LLC, the website is www.spinterswivel.com ?

I like the price, and the swivel looks good. I just hate to order and not know if they are junk. They claim the same swivel works for both passenger and driver, but I would think that would mean they would both swivel the same direction (clockwise or counter-clockwise). Will that work?

Thanks for any info!
After reaching out to Mark Wen, the owner, I ordered two swivels for my 2018 Promaster - which I just got last week. They were easy to install (and they arrived in 5 business days! I bought my own bolts because I wanted something longer than the factory bolts because the steel was thicker. I have only two complaints so far - one was my fault, the other was minor. The first, I was confused about the install because I only opened one of the two and did not realize I had tubing/spacers to raise the seat further so it would function better. Make sure to check for the spacers if you buy two - saves a bunch of time and makes the install easier! HAHA! The second was that the nuts that came with the bolt kit were too small. I had to buy my own, but it was not too bad. I estimate, if I had not waited to find the spacers, this would have been a 3 hour job.
 
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Last Saturday (2020-05-23), after reading this thread then discovering that Mark Wen and Amazing Auto LLC was located a mere 15 minutes away, I ordered two of Swivel No. 2 ("SW-2") at sprinterswivel.com (which, I note, is not listed today) for my newly-acquired 2015 Ford Transit 250. I also added installation to the order, which, strangely, had no additional cost to install that item. I suspect that it was an error in the catalog. (The other swivel models can be installed for $50 each. Installation is available only in the Seattle area.)

Once I received the email receipt, which said to contact Amazing Auto to schedule installation, I reached out and scheduled pick-up (and installation?) the next day (yes, Sunday).

I pulled into Mark's driveway at about 1:45pm. This was obviously Mark's side hustle that he runs from his home. In spite of Mark's broken English, it became clear the he was not aware that I had ordered installation. It was also clear that the installation fee had been omitted in their online catalog (which might explain why that product has now been removed from the catalog).

I used my phone to pay $50 per seat with PayPal to his hotmail.com address. Even before I completed that transaction, he was began the installation, starting with the passenger seat. I watched and took a couple of photos.

Had I done the installation myself, it probably would have taken three hours per seat. Mark installed the passenger swivel in less than an hour. The driver-side swivel took him an hour-and-a-half.

In general, I'm pleased with the swivels. They are the same swivels for passenger and driver sides. The driver side swivel is just the passenger swivel installed upside down. The driver side works exactly the same as the passenger side, except that the release lever always faces forward and does not swivel with the seat, and you have to reckon with the parking brake on a Ford Transit.

But I REALLY don't like the parking brake relocation. It puts a lot of stress on the parking brake cable housing. Using a small mounting plate (about 1/4" thick, triangular, about 4" by 6"), the parking brake handle assembly was remounted down about three inches, aft about six inches, and pivoted forward & down, allowing the seat to swivel while the parking brake was at least half-released. See the photo below.

That hard turn in the brake cable housing makes my inner engineer cringe. My next project: Remount the parking brake handle assembly so the cable runs more fairly into the floor. That at least means tearing down the driver seat and removing the battery box. Hopefully, I can just drill some new holes in the seat base, bolt the handle assembly using those holes, reinstall the batteries, remount the seat & swivel, and call it done. Worst case: I'd also have to drill a new hole in the floor and re-route the parking brake cable and housing. I'd have to crawl under the van to explore the implications of such a hole and re-routing.

In this photo, which shows the handle with the brake set, the hard turns in the cable housing are circled. The red arrow points to the only visible part of the mounting plate. The green arrow points to the plane of rotation of the swivel. The handle must be below that plane to allow the seat to swivel.

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Last Saturday (2020-05-23), after reading this thread then discovering that Mark Wen and Amazing Auto LLC was located a mere 15 minutes away, I ordered two of Swivel No. 2 ("SW-2") at sprinterswivel.com
Bryan - How is the function of the passenger seat? Is it smooth easy to position, does it have any wobble? I'm on the fence of getting his #1 off eBay ($275) or ordering from SwivelRUs ($343), price includes their shipping.
 
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I got 2 for my 2015 promaster a month ago and today i went to install them.....well the passenger side seems ok i just need to buy some shorted bolts but when i went to the drivers side i'm not sure what to do..... they say just flip it over on the webpage.....well i guess i have to put the metal bars down first.....i wish there was a little more info on this.......i'll look again later to see if i can figure something out....
 
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