RE: Seat Height and Head Room...

["Patrick Sherman" <patrick@volkswagen.org>]

Dr. Khan everyone.. (Applause)

Next he will talk, and demostrate the ashtray features. For you 5'11" people
you better watch this..

j/k

That has to be the most I have seen on the list spent on a subject with
illustrations in a couple months..

Patrick Sherman
mailto:patrick@volkswagen.org
1997 VENTO VR6 / Tornado Red / 18K
"One cannot live on air alone....Add Water"

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-jettaglx@igtc.com [mailto:owner-jettaglx@igtc.com]On Behalf
> Of Khan M. Klatt
> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 11:08 PM
> To: jettaglx@igtc.COM
> Cc: jettaglx@igtc.COM
> Subject: Re: Seat Height and Head Room...
>
>
> At 10:34 PM -0700 6/23/98, Steve Harris wrote:
> >I know this sounds stupid, but you do know that there is a hight
> >adjustment
> >on the GLX seats don't you??
> >
> >Its a very strange adjustment...unlike any I've ever seen before on any
> >other car.  It raises the driver vertically.  Personally, I leave it
> >bottomed out and I still feel I'm sitting too high.  I don't have any
> >problem with head room (although I'm 6'4") but I'd love 6 more inches in
> >the footwell!!
>
> Yes, I'm aware of that setting (or I hope I am). It's the setting that, if
> you're not sitting in the seat, and you trigger the lever that actuates
> that setting, it will put your head rest through the windshield because
> it's on a WICKEDLY WOUND SPRING?
>
> Surely, if I know about the "WWS" then I've tried all sorts and kinds of
> settings for the height adjustment, and I keep the seat "bottomed out"
> (which doesn't do much for the folks sitting in the back of the car-- it's
> hard to get their toes under the bottom of your seat.
>
> There are three settings for the GLX seats, and none of them help me with
> my dilemma:
>
> 1. The seat forward-backward setting, as a small black lever to the right
> front of the seat. This is where I store my 1liter plastic pop bottles, by
> the way. I can't modify this because moving it closer a) makes me
> practically hug the steering wheel and b) makes it difficult to hit the
> brakes and clutch with the appropriate amount of force. Moving it farther
> a) makes it hard to reach the steering wheel, and b) I have to tip-toe to
> get the clutch.
>
> 2. The seat tiltback-tiltforward setting, as a black knob on the side of
> the seat. This is where I store nothing, by the way. I can't modify this
> because tilting it forward makes me sit up too straight, and tilting it
> back puts the back of my head into the roof of the car/on the edge of the
> sunroof cover. Tilting it WAY back makes it impossible to hold
> the steering
> wheel (bad!).
>
> 3. The last setting is the seat up-down setting, which is color-matched
> plastic to my car (Biber Beige in my Sequoia Green GLX). This is
> also where
> I store nothing, by the way. I can't modify this because it is bottomed
> out. I can only lift it up, which only compounds the problem.
>
> If you're 6'4" and want more legroom, then most of your length comes from
> your legs, while mine comes from the distance between my hips and the top
> of my head.
>
> As a 6'1" guy, I have my seat distance set maybe 1 or 2 from the rearmost
> setting (as you probably have it pushed all the way back).
>
> Here's what I guess our bodies are like in the seat:
>
> You:
>        O
>    ____|
>    ____|
>   /
>  /
> /
>
> Me:
>     O
>  ___|
>     |
>   __|
>  /
> /
>
> You're longer in the legs, but I'm longer in the torso. Perhaps that
> explains why you fit fine, and I don't fit so well. Sorry for the
> bad ASCII
> art. :)
>
> I'm still wondering if the GL seats come in a) leather b) side impact
> airbag, and c) will lower my seating inside the car.
>
> -Khan
>