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R50/53 What is your favorite seat position for driving your MINI

Old Nov 25, 2008 | 03:53 PM
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What is your favorite seat position for driving your MINI

Down low as far as it will go (deep in the belly of the beast); up high or somewhere in between?
 
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Old Nov 25, 2008 | 04:26 PM
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I am sitting low in mine...
 
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Old Nov 25, 2008 | 04:28 PM
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Down low as far as it can go and as far back as is comfortable and practical. Keep my weight low and distribute back.
 
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Old Nov 25, 2008 | 04:35 PM
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i usually face forward
 
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Old Nov 25, 2008 | 04:37 PM
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I only close my eyes on the turns.
 
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Old Nov 25, 2008 | 04:48 PM
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The next move would be cutting a hole in the floor pan!!
 
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Old Nov 25, 2008 | 05:35 PM
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Since I am only 5' tall... I have the seat all the way forward clicked up either 5 or 6 clicks and back slightly reclined. My umm...er... chest is occasionally used for honking the horn!
 
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Old Nov 25, 2008 | 06:54 PM
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Down and back.

Had my car serviced today and the mechanic helped himself to the, height, lumbar and tilt adjustments. There should be a law against that. It took me a month to sort it out when I bought the car and after fiddling with it all day I still haven't found the magic groove.
 
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Old Nov 25, 2008 | 08:13 PM
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A good 60 sec video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f478InegqRw

even better one, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcbL-...eature=related
 
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Old Nov 25, 2008 | 09:58 PM
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Originally Posted by AutoXCooper.com

I know this doesn't relate but I was watching the second video and the guy has a second video teaching how to double clutch down shift. I was wondering. Why can't you just hold down the clutch, shift down and rev the engine at the same time and then release the clutch? Isn't that faster?
 
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Old Nov 25, 2008 | 10:00 PM
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My seat has to be as low as it can go, I sit upright, forward enough to get to everything, and with my shoulders back my wrist can reach the top of the wheel.


Originally Posted by itsminidrmer
Why can't you just hold down the clutch, shift down and rev the engine at the same time and then release the clutch? Isn't that faster?
Double clutching is an antiquated practice from when transmissions didn't have syncros.
 
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Old Nov 25, 2008 | 10:51 PM
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As low as possible.
 
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Old Nov 25, 2008 | 11:29 PM
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Very Very Very low!
 
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Old Nov 26, 2008 | 03:49 AM
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Missionary
 
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Old Nov 26, 2008 | 07:08 AM
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I have my seat all the way up but can't see the bonnet and I'm always hitting my head. I have it pushed back far enough so that my legs aren't squished, but I always feel as if my arms too far away from the steering wheel. Sometimes it's hard to maneuver and I have to lean forward. I HATE that. But if I make the back lean a bit more forward, I feel like I'm slouching. I can never win.
 
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Old Nov 26, 2008 | 07:12 AM
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In between...but on the low side.
 
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Old Nov 26, 2008 | 10:50 AM
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Seat as low as it will go, but with a proper upright position. Being 6'2" is one reason.
 
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Old Nov 26, 2008 | 02:59 PM
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I drop mine down as far as it will go with a slight incline on the seat back, then I move the seat away from the dash using the dead pedal as a guide; I know its correct when there is a slight bend in my knee, then I drop the steering till it bucks, and its on!
 
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