stradman
12-29-2016, 07:41 PM
Hello everyone,
I have recently purchased a nearly new ACR-E here in the UK which was imported by another Brit a few months ago. The car was originally bought from one of the well known main dealers specializing in Vipers in the US. When the previous owner(who bought the car unseen)asked the dealer to prepare the car to send it to the UK, he asked if he could have the seat lowering kit installed in the car as he was 6'8" tall and needed this to fit. Unfortunately when the car came to the UK and despite the seat lowering kit the guy just felt he couldn't get comfortable so put the car up for sale through a dealer, after which I bought the car.
Being only 5'9" myself I thought I could find a way to adjust the fixed lowered rails by drilling some new holes to bring the seat forward a bit-which I managed to do by about an inch and a half-the maximum you can place the seat with this kit. Although this has improved things a lot for me I'm still not 100% happy with seat and probably need the seat just a touch forward again-despite the pedals being placed as far back as possible.
So I have no other choice than to put the original seat rails back on. The problem is that the previous owner said the original rails did not come with the car as the dealer who installed these did not leave them in the car for him. I contacted the dealer who did the conversion but he says he doesn't have these anymore despite being only 6 months ago.
JonB(who obviously was not the dealer who fitted the seat lowering kit) has kindly tried to source these for me but says that he cannot find a matching left and right rail for the drivers side.
I don't know what to do at this point , so I am reaching out to anyone who has had the seat lowering kit fitted and feels they could part/sell their old standard seat rails for my manual seated ACR so I can get 100% comfortable in the car! Any help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks for listening.
I have recently purchased a nearly new ACR-E here in the UK which was imported by another Brit a few months ago. The car was originally bought from one of the well known main dealers specializing in Vipers in the US. When the previous owner(who bought the car unseen)asked the dealer to prepare the car to send it to the UK, he asked if he could have the seat lowering kit installed in the car as he was 6'8" tall and needed this to fit. Unfortunately when the car came to the UK and despite the seat lowering kit the guy just felt he couldn't get comfortable so put the car up for sale through a dealer, after which I bought the car.
Being only 5'9" myself I thought I could find a way to adjust the fixed lowered rails by drilling some new holes to bring the seat forward a bit-which I managed to do by about an inch and a half-the maximum you can place the seat with this kit. Although this has improved things a lot for me I'm still not 100% happy with seat and probably need the seat just a touch forward again-despite the pedals being placed as far back as possible.
So I have no other choice than to put the original seat rails back on. The problem is that the previous owner said the original rails did not come with the car as the dealer who installed these did not leave them in the car for him. I contacted the dealer who did the conversion but he says he doesn't have these anymore despite being only 6 months ago.
JonB(who obviously was not the dealer who fitted the seat lowering kit) has kindly tried to source these for me but says that he cannot find a matching left and right rail for the drivers side.
I don't know what to do at this point , so I am reaching out to anyone who has had the seat lowering kit fitted and feels they could part/sell their old standard seat rails for my manual seated ACR so I can get 100% comfortable in the car! Any help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks for listening.