R50/53 Who's the tallest MINI driver?
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From: Baton Rouge
I'm 6'2", 200 pounds. My Dad is 6'3" and about 300 pounds (yeah, the old man needs to lose a few "LBs". When I first bought it he wanted to drive...I, of course obliged. "Man, you forget how tiny this thing is once you get behind the wheel". My only complaint...I wish it had a telescopic steering wheel.
Thanks for the info. Sorry to hear I'm not the only one who has suffered pain from the seats. I'm a little nervous about opening the seats because my MCS has the cold weather package with heated seats. I'm afraid I'll slice a wire if my modifications are too extensive.
Sorry I don't have much of a write up on this but it's fairly straight foward getting the Leatherette cover off.
Found an old PM that has a little more detail I sent a guy and from this he was able to do it:
Anyway my pain in the side of my legs was getting almost intolerable as I have a sciatic muscle problem, what you are feeling is a metal bar. I removed the seat, then removed the sliders, the seat material has a few plastic clips that need to be removed, but don't remove the whole fabric just the sides so you can access the foam pad, this will enable you to lift off the whole seat cushion away from the seat frame and meshing. Here's the scary part, feel from underneath for the bars make an incision with an exacto knife and pull on the bar keep making incisions along the bars path and pulling. It's shaped like a rear sway bar that runs accross the front of the seat and the end have loops to form the bolster, once it is removed I pushed back in some dense foam and then duc taped the bottom and put it all back in reverse order. The shape stayed perfect and I have no more pain!!!!!
BTW 6'3" and isn't all the way back.
Found an old PM that has a little more detail I sent a guy and from this he was able to do it:
Anyway my pain in the side of my legs was getting almost intolerable as I have a sciatic muscle problem, what you are feeling is a metal bar. I removed the seat, then removed the sliders, the seat material has a few plastic clips that need to be removed, but don't remove the whole fabric just the sides so you can access the foam pad, this will enable you to lift off the whole seat cushion away from the seat frame and meshing. Here's the scary part, feel from underneath for the bars make an incision with an exacto knife and pull on the bar keep making incisions along the bars path and pulling. It's shaped like a rear sway bar that runs accross the front of the seat and the end have loops to form the bolster, once it is removed I pushed back in some dense foam and then duc taped the bottom and put it all back in reverse order. The shape stayed perfect and I have no more pain!!!!!
BTW 6'3" and isn't all the way back.
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