Bakkie Back Seat Cushion Gauteng: Club Cab, Super Cab & Extended Cab

If your cab-and-a-half spends its week between Reef traffic and a dusty Highveld site, the space behind your front seats does not have to be a hard plastic bench or bare metal. Our rear seat cushion turns the back of your cab-and-a-half into a comfortable, premium-looking seat in seconds. Built on a solid wood base so it never sags, covered in luxury leather-look upholstery, and delivered free anywhere in Gauteng. One size, one price: R3,999 R2,499.

One cushion. Every cab-and-a-half in Gauteng.

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Club Cab Rear Seat Cushion

Solid wood base. Luxury leather-look finish.

• Solid wood base keeps it flat and firm, stronger than foam-only or chipboard cushions
• High-density mattress-grade foam, comfortable for adults and kids
• Hexagon-stitched leather-look cover that wipes clean in seconds
• No bolts, no drilling. Drop it in, lift it out when you need cargo space

Fits: Hilux Xtra Cab, Ranger SuperCab, D-Max Extended Cab, Navara King Cab, BT-50 FreeStyle Cab, Triton Club Cab and more.

R 3,999 R 2,499.00

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A closer look

Who buys this in Gauteng

Gauteng runs more work bakkies than any other province, and the cab-and-a-half is the fleet favourite here: Ranger SuperCabs and Hilux Xtra Cabs doing site runs across the Reef with two or three crew and a bin full of tools. The rear compartment on those is a hard plastic shelf. Site foremen buy this so the crew riding between Midrand and Boksburg is not sitting on bare plastic for an hour in traffic, and weekend owners buy it so the dogs have somewhere decent on the way to the Magaliesberg.

Driving conditions in Gauteng

Gauteng's Highveld climate is dry heat and dust for most of the year, then sudden, heavy afternoon thunderstorms in summer, the kind that turn a construction site or a gravel access road to mud in twenty minutes. Both extremes matter for a rear cab cushion. Dry Highveld dust works its way into loose foam-only cushions and grinds against stitching over time; ours sits on a solid wood base with a wipeable leather-look cover, so a quick wipe-down after a dusty site run or a muddy stretch of the R21 is enough.

This is also the country's densest fleet-bakkie province: site crews moving between Midrand, Boksburg, Germiston and the West Rand, and weekend owners loading dogs and kids for a trip out to the Magaliesberg or the Vaal. Our store at 6 West St, Kempton Park CBD sits in the middle of that market, so if you want to press the foam and check the finish before you buy, you can.

Where these bakkies work in Gauteng

Gauteng is South Africa's freight and logistics hub. City Deep in Johannesburg is the largest inland container terminal on the continent, and the N1/N3 interchange at Buccleuch carries some of the heaviest daily traffic volume in the country. A lot of the club cab and extended cab bakkies on these roads are doing short-haul delivery and trade work between warehouses in City Deep, Alberton and Isando rather than farm work, which means more stop-start traffic time and more hours with someone actually sitting in that rear compartment.

The province also carries the legacy of the old West Rand and East Rand gold-mining belt, so mining-services and equipment-supply bakkies are common on routes through Springs, Boksburg and Krugersdorp. Between logistics traffic and mining-services runs, a Gauteng cab-and-a-half spends more time loaded and moving than in most other provinces, which is exactly the daily grind a chipboard-based cushion fails under first.

Why buy from Mr Mattress

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From humble beginnings to thousands of happy sleepers, on beds, in load bins, and now in the cab too. The Club Cab Rear Seat Cushion is built on solid wood and cut from the same bed-grade foam as everything else we make, because the back of your bakkie shouldn't feel like a park bench.

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Why ours outlasts the rest

Most bakkie seat cushions on the market are a slab of cheap foam, or foam glued to a thin chipboard panel. They feel fine in week one. By month six they sag in the middle, the board cracks on a corrugated road, and the cover starts peeling.

We build ours the way we build mattresses. A solid wood base carries the weight so the foam only has to do the comfort work. On top of that sits high-density foam, the same grade that goes into our beds, wrapped in a hexagon-stitched leather-look cover that looks like it came out of the factory with your bakkie.

How to order in Gauteng

Odd size? We cut custom.

Older bakkie, panel van, or a rear compartment with a different shape? WhatsApp your measurements to 087 292 1957 and we will quote you on a custom-cut cushion with the same solid wood base and leather-look cover.

Cushion or certified seat? Read this before you buy

This is the question that matters most on a cab-and-a-half, and most listings quietly avoid it. So, plainly: the Mr Mattress Bakkie Back Seat Cushion is an upholstered comfort cushion. It is not a certified passenger seat, it has no seat-belt anchorages, and it does not come with seatbelts.

What it is built for: making the hard rear compartment of a Club Cab, Super Cab, Xtra Cab, King Cab, Space Cab or Extended Cab comfortable and presentable. Short trips, kids, workers moving between sites, dogs, and keeping gear and knees off bare metal.

If your goal is to carry passengers legally, you need a different product from a different trade. A rear passenger seat needs engineered mounting points and seat-belt anchorages meeting the South African standards for restraint anchorages (SANS 1430 is the one usually cited), and it should be fitted by an installer who can give you documentation that will stand up at a roadworthy inspection. No foam cushion, universal bench or upholstered pad - from anyone, including us - is a substitute for that. Firms that supply cab-and-a-half seats with SABS-approved belt kits do that work; we do not.

We would rather lose a sale than have somebody fit the wrong thing behind their front seats and assume it is safe to put a child on it with a lap belt that is not anchored to anything.

One thing worth knowing before you shop: most cab-and-a-half bakkies leave the factory with no rear seat belts and no belt anchorage points behind the front seats at all. That is exactly why a compliant rear seat is a specialist fitment rather than a bolt-in purchase - the anchorages usually have to be engineered in, not just bolted to existing points. Whoever you buy from, ask precisely what is being certified: the seat, the belts, the anchorages, or the installation. Those are four different things.

If your bakkie already has rear seat belts, say so when you order. Some cab-and-a-half models do have factory belts or anchorage points fitted behind the front seats. Where that is the case we cut the cushion with belt openings on request, at no extra cost, so your existing factory belts still feed through and buckle normally instead of being buried under upholstery. To be precise about what that does and does not mean: the restraint is your vehicle's own factory belt, anchored to the vehicle body by the manufacturer. Our cushion simply stops getting in its way. We are not adding belts, anchorages or certification, and if your bakkie has none fitted, a cushion cannot create them.

On SABS: our cushion is built from SABS-approved materials, which speaks to the quality and safety of the foam and the build. That is a materials standard and it is not the same thing as seat-belt or anchorage certification, which is a separate standard entirely. We would rather spell that out than let the letters do work they should not do.

Not sure which you need? We wrote a plain guide to the whole category - every cab-and-a-half naming convention, what the real options cost from about R950 to R4,000, and when you legally need a certified seat with belts: Club Cab Back Seat: What Fits, What It Costs, and What Is Actually Legal.

Frequently asked questions

Which bakkies use this rear seat cushion?

This cushion is made for every cab-and-a-half bakkie sold in South Africa, whatever the badge calls it. Toyota calls it the Hilux Xtra Cab. Ford calls it the Ranger SuperCab. Isuzu calls it the D-Max Extended Cab (and older Isuzu KB models were sold as the Space Cab). Nissan calls it the Navara King Cab, and before that the Hardbody King Cab. Mazda calls it the BT-50 FreeStyle Cab. Mitsubishi calls it the Triton Club Cab, and many South Africans still remember the Colt Clubcab. Whether you say club cab, super cab, extra cab, king cab, space cab, extended cab, half cab, 1.5 cab or cab-and-a-half, it is the same body style: a bakkie with a stretched cab and a space behind the front seats. That space is exactly what this cushion is built for, and we deliver it free across Gauteng.

Bakkie back seat cushions by region

National guide · Gauteng · Cape Town · KZN · Free State · Mpumalanga · Limpopo · Eastern Cape · North West

Also see: Bakkie Mattress Gauteng · Caravan Mattresses · Business & Bulk

Reviewed by Andries Taljaard, Founder of Mr Mattress.