Gen 3 Seat Lowered 1.5”

Since I couldn’t find much in the way of how-to’s for lowering the drivers seat, I did it myself. For the Karen’s, I’m an engineer and I’ll drive it, but then again, I grew up in cars before there were seat belts. You’ll have to decide for yourself whether or not to modify a critical crash safety component.
Basically, I separated the slider from the lower seat frame, cut the mounting tabs off and welded them back on in a better position. The front tabs are swapped side to side and flipped upside down. The rear mounts are cut and re-welded lower down. The seat belt receiver needs spacers and longer bolts so it fits. The seat adjustment bar needs to be flipped and bent slightly. The slider frame had to be notched to clear the lumbar adjustment knob.
Please forgive my posting skills or lack thereof.

Note this component is bolted and spot welded, so no need to remove the bolts. Cut on the red line, swap, flip, grind to fit, tack.


Cut on the red lines.

notch this part to clear the lumbar knob.


Swap the tabs side to side, flip them, grind to fit and tack them. Bolts will never need removal since the component is spot welded as well.



Insure the rear seat mount holes are at 16” centers before welding the rear mounts. The rear mounts are just ground and placed as far down as possible. The seat sheet metal and slider frame will interfere, so I used bar clamps to eek out as much altitude as possible.

This is how the rear looked from the inside…




Here’s the seat belt receiver mount. I added spacers and longer bolts so it would clear the modified rear mount. Didn’t capture a photo of the rear,

I flipped the seat adjustment lever. Re-grooved it for the spring clip. I ended up having to bend it once I installed the Clazzio cover as well.
The plastic side cover needed a bit of trimming on the floor edge, but fit right up.

 

Interesting. One of most common 3rd complaints is the low seating position.

Personally I find the height of the seat perfectly fine.

 

Overall, quite impressive.