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Apr 13th, 2017, 01:59 | #11 |
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I find my two 940s without sun-rooves and with manually adjusted seats quite comfortable. My 940 CD estate with electric driver's seat and sunroof has always seemed cramped and I've felt it would be useful to be able to put the seat a bit further back and a bit lower. I hadn't been aware of the spring mod until this thread, but I'm not sure whether it would work with the electric front seat because the motors are under the seat. |
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Jun 16th, 2019, 08:39 | #13 |
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Sorry for the thread resurrection but since owning my 940 I have always felt pretty cramped driving it ( I'm just over 6'2" but have long legs ) one main problem is knees on steering wheel.
I'm going to look into removing rear rubber stops but wondered if anyone else has any suggestions Cheers
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Jun 16th, 2019, 08:51 | #14 |
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sorry duplicated this
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A friend of mine is a bit taller (6'8") than you and doesn't have the same trouble so i'm guessing you need to experiment with the seat position.
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Jun 16th, 2019, 13:23 | #16 |
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I've tried every tilt in the book Dave but still no joy. I need it to go back further.
I have a friend who is 6' 7" but has a shorter inside leg than me so I think that is my problem. I can see a little rubber stop and also a split pin across the rail so I will investigate that Cheers
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Jun 16th, 2019, 13:55 | #17 |
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Good luck with the stops Mark, hopefully it sorts things out for you. Alternatively you may need to make some plates up to move the seat an inch or two back on the runners which might be the easiest/best long term solution for you.
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Jun 16th, 2019, 16:57 | #18 |
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Removed the rubber stops and that is slightly better. Will have to take seat out to remove split pins which should give me a couple of inches
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I'm 6ft 2 as well Mark and after reading this thread I got in mine earlier and thought actually yes it is a little snug in the 940!
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Blimey! how do you squeeze into a 360 Luke?
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