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Is the Journey seat really lower than the Sport seat?
Before I bought my 6mt sedan, I test drove a journey non-sport sedan with 7at and liked how low the seat could go.
When I at in my 6mt sedan for the first time, I was surprised it felt quite high.
After getting home, I did the seat lowering mod by removing the thick rubber washer from the rod from in front of the seat that is the stopper but I feel this hardly made a difference. The seat can be lowered until the lowest part of the seat is pressing against the floor carpet and then some. I can see there are a lot of mechanical/electrical motors/gears under the seat that are hitting the floor carpet and they prevent the seat from going lower.
I have also read on this forum somewhere that someone found the journey seat to sit lower than his sport seat. This jives with my memory of my local test drive of a journey non-sport sedan. Can anyone who has experienced both confirm? I'm thinking about eventually getting a journey seat for my car because the lower seating position is one of the reasons why I liked the car so much during the journey non-sport test drive.
No idea if that's true (I can measure my seat's lowest position if anyone really wants) but if someone wants to trade sport for base seats I'd be down lol
when I tried lowering it with by loosening the nut, the left side goes down further but the right doesn't and causes the whole seat bottom to twist. it seems like the right side is hitting a hard stop before the seat motor runs out of threads. see the yellow circles in the pics below. do you think If I modify it, that side will go lower?
Im trying to figure out what is ultimately limiting the seat from going lower looking at pics on ebay. does anyone have a better guess besides that? I dont want to tear my seat apart without knowing for sure. my head rubs the headliner and makes the car suck! I have a coupe and I'm 5'11" with a 30" inseam
My 7AT sport allows me to drive without hitting my head, I'm 5'11-1/2 with a 32" inseam. Reclining the seat back farther will help you. I don't know if the 6MT and 7AT seat brackets are different.
