why are my seats wonky?

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dabcabc
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why are my seats wonky?

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Had my '2 for a couple of weeks now and loving it, but have just noticed that when you sit in the driver seat it seems to be a hell of a lot lower. Is this standard or has a short-ar$e owned my car in the past and had the driver seat raised?

(meant driver not passenger)
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Re: why are my seats wonky?

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Unlikely mainly because making the drivers seat higher would be difficult given that the front bolts go in horizontally so you couldn't just put washers under the mounts like you can on say an elise.

Take your drivers seat out and have a look. Its only 4 bolts and will take 5mins.
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Re: why are my seats wonky?

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apparently the rear mounts have a larger spacer on them on the drivers side, and these bolts are vertically mounted (sorry if that's nonsense, i'm intepreting from what i've been told by a friend)
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Re: why are my seats wonky?

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the drivers seat has the ability to tilt the seat part. Are you sure its not just set on its max setting?
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Re: why are my seats wonky?

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chris99 wrote:the drivers seat has the ability to tilt the seat part. Are you sure its not just set on its max setting?


yep :) i'll go have a look in a min and see if i can get some photos of the mounts
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Re: why are my seats wonky?

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just had a quick look

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passenger side on left, drivers side on the right... (sorry bout the blurry photo but cba to go take another :))

would this be a home made backet then?
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Re: why are my seats wonky?

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again on the rear.... someone must've really hated the seat height on this car!

any reason i shouldn't just take the brackets/spacers out?
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Re: why are my seats wonky?

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dabcabc wrote:Image

again on the rear.... someone must've really hated the seat height on this car!

any reason i shouldn't just take the brackets/spacers out?


Take them out, they don't look safe anyway!
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Re: why are my seats wonky?

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:shock: thought the rear mounts on your seat didn't look standard duncan, didn't realise they looked that different. Nice to see i was correct about the rear mounts, was kind of suprised about the front ones though, just good to know I was right :wink:
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Re: why are my seats wonky?

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Lauren wrote:Unlikely mainly because making the drivers seat higher would be difficult given that the front bolts go in horizontally so you couldn't just put washers under the mounts like you can on say an elise.

Take your drivers seat out and have a look. Its only 4 bolts and will take 5mins.


argh got foiled by the pesky 5th bolt!

convenient time for a quick vacuum and i'll whack the seat back in :)
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Re: why are my seats wonky?

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perhaps thats 5 bolts and 4 minutes then :lol:
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