Adjustable seats...

[david.mt]

Well I never realised until today that the angle of the seat was adjustable .

I always thought the seat was a little too far reclined so the head rest was useless and my knees where tight up under the wheel. So imagine my surprise when I had my head in the footwell earlier and saw that with just an allen key you could change the recline angle (IIRC there are around 4 positions you can choose) - I have now straightened up the seat and have a much better driving position - I am over 6ft.

Thought it would be useful to know in case anyone else doesn't realise .

[Metalman]

[quote=david.mt]I always thought the seat was a little too far reclined so the head rest was useless and my knees where tight up under the wheel. quote]

Welcome to our world, at least you can adjust yours. I need to get my hands on some M400 seats. Or a M400!

[mgbond]

Wow, I never knew this and I don't think this has come out in my 4yrs of owning?

Bondy

[The devil]

No, me neither........wheres my allen keys

[david.mt]

Glad to be of assistance - would you believe I was fitting electric windows when I found this

Not the best photo but this will give you an idea of the amount of movement available - this is obviously from the door side.



The bolt next to the centre tunnel is a bh to get out and back in again - I had to cut down one of my allen keys and now have no skin left on one of my knuckles.

But job well done and now time for ...

[Gadgeroonie]

looks like yours has been moved before - or was this picture taken after ?

[david.mt]

Gadgeroonie said:

looks like yours has been moved before - or was this picture taken after ?

That was after I dropped the seat forward by the couple of holes.

[Jim O.]

The easiest way that I've found to do this is just to remove the four bolts that hold the seat down to the floor of the car, and lift out the seat. Once the seat is out, you can easily reach all four side bolts without losing any skin.

[daddysumo]

Remember this is on the M400 only !

[The devil]

daddysumo said:

Remember this is on the M400 only !

Youve ruined my evening now

[Jim O.]

With M12 seats, you can adjust the tilt a small amount by putting shims between the slider rail and the floor of the car.

[BobE]

What would also be useful would be a `tilt forward` device on the seats like a 3 door car. There`s quite a bit of luggage space behind the seats but the gap to get there is too small (unless you having something really `squashy` that you can force into the space). I`ve been thinking of adding in a device between the seat and the runners so I can tilt the seat forward on some pivots and then latch it back down.

[Gadgeroonie]

probably safer to leave them inplace and slide the seat forward ?

[GC1]

I gave up with theses seats,and fitted sparco r100's,very nice,more padding and reclining.....

[BobE]

Gadgeroonie said:

probably safer to leave them inplace and slide the seat forward ?

They already are in the most forward position...