I found this minor, minor, minor NO COST mod should be shared with everyone since I view lack of head space for anyone more than 6' as a big shortcoming on the coupe (and possibly the sedan).

On FA another member (Fullcode) posted how he figured out by looking at the seats on his sedan how to lower the seat by possibly up to an inch. I took his notes and I just spent less than 15 minutes and replicated it on my coupe. I probably gained .75" more noggin space and it was so easy. The original post is at the bottom of this thread for reference but here is my summarized instructions with links to Fullcode's quick picture.

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/mobmed...c3.jpg&.src=ph

Well...I just took a 15 minute break, grabbed a locking set of pliers and a flashlight and now easily have .5-.75" more room for my noggin!! I can't believe how easy that was and now I feel like I'm sitting considerably lower in the seat. This basically adjusts 2 nuts on the threaded rod that controls how high or low the back part of the seat sits at when changed with the toggle switch. Moving the nuts toward the front of the the car on the rod is all that is required. The locking pliers (needle nose worked good for me) get locked around the front nut. Flashlight is to help see under the seat (duh). Grab a clean rag to wipe your hands on after you mess with the rod to keep off the car.

The hardest part was just having to kink my neck a bit. Basically to reiterate Fullcodes post all you have to do is put the drivers seat as far up and forward as possible to gain access, get the locking pliers locked around the far nut in the picture (towards the front of car) and toggle the rear up/down switch so it moves the pliers down, then rotate the pliers clockwise, toggle again, rotate pliers clockwise, and so on until the nut has moved toward the front of the car maybe 1/4" away from the plate you see in his picture. Then you just rotate the other nut and rubber seal (closest to you) clockwise until it mates up with the 1st nut you moved with the pliers....and voila...you are done!! This was easier than my radar power wire install which took all of 15 minutes.

Welcome to comfort my tall friends!!


Original thread on FA:
http://forums.freshalloy.com/ubbthre...c=1&PHPSESSID=


3 kids, 1 wife....1 DG/Willow G Coupe.....what more could I need?

 

good catch, Im 6'1 and have pretty much no headroom. I will definitely look into this.

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This post has been all over the G35 message boards. One poster brought up a good point.

Does the nut act as a mechanical stop so that the electrical limit of the resolvers on the motors do not bottom out? If so, what is the delta between the mechanical and electrical travel limits. You wouldn't want to ruin an expensive seat motor to gain a little head room for a short period of time.