Seat height

[Artful-Bodger]

Hi guys,
My 2005 3.0se has black leather electric seats, problem is I am 6ft plus and I feel a bit too high even with the seats fully lowered, I was wondering if anyone knew if the mechanical seats, or the later coupe seats might give a lower seating position for taller drivers?

 

[Steve84N]

I don't think so.

I find my coupe seats too high on low as well.

 

[buzyg]

Standard or sports seats?

I'm 6ft 4 & have no problems with the sports seats. I have my seat right back against the bulkhead and bolt upright. Then as low as I can get it at the back. Front lip extended and as high as I can get it to support the back of my thighs. Remarkably comfy on the 644 mile run back from Scotland a few weeks back.

 

[Steve84N]

Sports seats.

It just feels like I'm on the car rather than really in it. Not a problem comfort wise, I too have it all the way down and the front tilted all the way up. Would just like to be an inch or two lower.

 

[cj10jeeper]

All have identical height minimum limits
Sports seats provide more length and height as they have less padding base and back and deeper contours

Strange as at 6' I have no issues and would not want to be any lower

 

[Zeld4]

I'm over 6'3 and have sports seats in my coupe. It took me a bit of time to get the seating position right but I feel very comfortable now. With electric sports seats you can lower the front and rear of the seat bottoms independently and I find lowering the back of the seat base fully and raising the front lip gives a feeling of sitting deep inside the car and it's also more supportive and comfortable than having the whole base of the seat lowered fully. Do your standard seats give you the option to lower the back and front independently or does the base move up and down as one?

 

[Artful-Bodger]

I have the heated fully adjustable seats, you can tilt the base as well as raise it, it sounds like you have adopted the same position I have with the seat full low and the front tilted up more, I have the back rest reclined a bit more than I would ideally like for reach to the steering, it's ok but I prefer the wheel closer, my wrists reach the top of the wheel when seated and the wheel full back, this puts my eye line in the centre of the screen as opposed to the top quarter when I have the seat as upright as I would prefer.

I prefer a low seating position, with my eye line in the bottom half of the screen as this gives me a far better feel of the car (a hang up from my sprint and hillclimb days), but short of fitting comp seats with lower subframes It will have to suffice it seems.

 

[goldbcfc]

In my Z4 the seat seems to go further back with it not dipped so much but raised a bit. I used to always have it to the floor but as soon as you dip it to the max it stops u pushing the seat back further I've noticed. I now have my seat a little higher it allows me to push it further back with the steering wheel adjusted so it pulled towards me to reach good. Thing with manual seats u can never get a perfect position much better with electric seats from my exp in bmw's. If its a major problem time to start looking at 5, 6 or 7 series.