Vertically challenged!

[VictorMizer]

I have just bought my 1st Lotus (An S2 Elise in Ice Blue)
I'm not receiving delivery until the end of Jan so it's going to be a long Christmas :-(

Anyway, having test driven one in the past with the wife.
I know that she is unable to fully depress the clutch, and really needs to be quite a lot near the pedals.

In the past i have been told that it is possible to reverse the seat rails to enable the seat to travel further forward has anybody done this and if so is it a simple as it sounds?

Thanks

[Stubonn]

My wife had the same problem, but I referred to her as a short arse.

The Lotus trim shop produce a booster cushion to match the colour of your interior. From memory it cost about £100 and is available through any Lotus dealer.

Bell & Colvill have them on their parts list.

http://www.bell-colvill.co.uk/LotusShop/Details.as...

Good luck and enjoy it.

[Gooby]

TAD DAAAAA

[VladTheDad]

Gooby, do you have these pictures to hand or do you go looking for them?

[tricky 100]

He just fished them out off the wardrobe and quicky photographed them .
How talls (smalls ) your wife then ? mines 5'4" (wife) and she has no trouble .

[Beachbum]

VladTheDad said:

Gooby, do you have these pictures to hand or do you go looking for them?

He was wearing them at the BoLOCs Christmas bash

[RobM77]

Obviously, the usual advice goes: be very careful of sitting too close to the wheel as you can be impailed on it in the event of an accident. If she can cope with the other pedals, you might want to look into adjusting the clutch pedal to suit (i.e. getting the biting point higher). I know my Elise has a very long clutch travel, and when driving my leg is bent quite a lot on the accelerator pedal, but is fully outstretched with my foot down on the clutch, so this is undoubtedly a feature of the car.

[ajk]

Graham, my g/f is 5ft and gets on just fine with the Lotus bolster seat as above:
http://www.bell-colvill.co.uk/LotusShop/SearchDire...

Cheers,
Andrew.
www.elisetrophy.com (Elise Trophy 2007 season review DVD & 2008 wall calendar now available - click here)

Edited by ajk on Wednesday 19th December 05:35

[VictorMizer]

Thanks Guy, those shoes look brilliant LOL.

Ajk,

The wife's 5' 1/2" tall, apparently the 1/2" is all important....
Anyway i'll take her along and see if we can try out one of those booster cusion things.

Now i've just got to find a 2nd hand indoor cover a sports exhaust and one of those removalable steering wheel kits. Well that's my Christmas list sorted...