Skinny Mike
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Other seats have been fitted, but usually on the normal mounts, which makes minimal difference.
I could do with a drop of about an inch or so. I can't see through the windscreen if the sun visor is down. Neither can I see the top of the Speedo.
Makes driving in the sun at speed quite interesting
Mike
I could do with a drop of about an inch or so. I can't see through the windscreen if the sun visor is down. Neither can I see the top of the Speedo.
Makes driving in the sun at speed quite interesting
Mike
Dartmoor Navigator
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I scrape my head every time I get in, and yes the visor thing is a pain ... the saving grace is that at least they are heated seats.
Dartmoor Navigator
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Nodge68
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I like the hight of the seat in relation to the pedals. However with the visor, the view ahead is restricted. I'm only average hight, so I've no idea who the FL1 was designed to fit.
A slimmer visor would be a good idea. My head is a good distance from the roof, but I'd still bang my head on the window frame, if I didn't duck when I stick my head out. The proportions do seen strange, but it's comfortable to drive.
A slimmer visor would be a good idea. My head is a good distance from the roof, but I'd still bang my head on the window frame, if I didn't duck when I stick my head out. The proportions do seen strange, but it's comfortable to drive.
private penguin
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Can't help wondering whether an easier modification, rather than trying to adapt the seat for a lower seat, would be to adapt the sun visor to be slimmer?
private penguin
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Very true.
I hadn't realised FL1s had so little headroom. I'll resist the temptation to suggest buying a Disco as the solution. However, LR have never really considered the size of humans when designing their vehicles. I know plenty of people who cannot drive a Defender without the drivers window open, and a fair few who physically cannot drive a defender truck-cab because the seat wont go back far enough. Even with the D2, if I have the steering wheel adjusted low enough to see the fuel gauge, it's uncomfortably close to my legs, and when my wife was pregnant she couldnt physically fit behind the steering wheel and still reach the pedals. I think its only in the FL2 and D3 that fully adjustable seats and steering wheels actually appeared (still way ahead of Ford who didnt put an adjustable steering wheel in the transit until 2014)
Hippo
Lord Hippo
I put some spacer nuts between the roof and the plastic bit the sun roof bolt goes through, on the side which controls the angle. This tilts the sun roof. Hence the fixed position when it's down turns more towards the windscreen, therefore being higher up. There's not way of taking the visor apart to make changes to it's down position.
Hippo
Lord Hippo
I think it's the same.
GrumpyGel
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I'm 5 11 and a 1/2 (or at least was, don't know if I've shrunk since I was last measured) - I'm not 6' - that would be a fib, I'm 1/2" shy. I drive with the seat about 2/3rs way back, with the seat back quite upright and the steering wheel at its highest point.
I find the driving position great, and the high seat contributes to that. When I get in 'regular cars' it feels wrong! To slouchy and like the car wasn't built for people to sit in comfortably.
I have zero problem with headroom - in fact there's a good couple of inches to spare above my barnet. The view out of the windscreen is fine.
If I swing the sun visor straight down it definitely does obscure far to much vision - it extends well below the bottom of the rear view mirror and only leaves a small gap above the steering wheel which is basically a view of the bonnet and not much else. For my Mrs, who's much shorter, that view might be fine though. If push the sun visor right forward so it turns up and is touching the windscreen, the view is fine and it does its job - I may need to bring it back down a bit if the sun is very low in the sky.
I would have thought that if you have trouble with head room or the sun visor in a Freelander, you'll have trouble in most other cars.
I find the driving position great, and the high seat contributes to that. When I get in 'regular cars' it feels wrong! To slouchy and like the car wasn't built for people to sit in comfortably.
I have zero problem with headroom - in fact there's a good couple of inches to spare above my barnet. The view out of the windscreen is fine.
If I swing the sun visor straight down it definitely does obscure far to much vision - it extends well below the bottom of the rear view mirror and only leaves a small gap above the steering wheel which is basically a view of the bonnet and not much else. For my Mrs, who's much shorter, that view might be fine though. If push the sun visor right forward so it turns up and is touching the windscreen, the view is fine and it does its job - I may need to bring it back down a bit if the sun is very low in the sky.
I would have thought that if you have trouble with head room or the sun visor in a Freelander, you'll have trouble in most other cars.
Dartmoor Navigator
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