Lower driving position car seats 220D

[suedehead]

I'm 6 foot 3 tall person, and when I'm driving my 220d, I feel too high despite I lowered the original seat to the lowest point. 

Has anyone changed their driving seat for a racing seat to lower their position?

Thanks

 

[Linas.P]

I guess if you have electric seats, then they would not go down as much as manually adjusted ones. Never had a problem with seat position in IS250 (as far as I know they are same) and I am 6.2. Fitting racing seat would seem a bit extreme for me, but getting one of manually adjustable ones should not be a problem, you might even be able to re-use the leather (assuming you seats are leather) to re-trim the new seat. As far as I know manually adjusted ones didn't come with leather option. Other things to note - Lexus IS mk2 seating position is little higher then say BMW 3-series, so depending on what was you last car you might just need to get used to it.

[suedehead]

Thanks for replying Linas. That's right there are electric leather seats. It's a good idea to re-use the leader, I didn't think about this. The problem is when I'm driving I'm not as comfortable as it should be and part of my vision sees the interior roof.

[Linas.P]

I know what you mean, I didn't realise that IS mk2 has higher position before getting into BMW with manual seats, obviously ventilation, heating and electrical control units takes space and seat cannot go down any more. I am personally, ok with that - I don't need to use sun-blind as much as the roof covers it mostly, but after driving BMW for some time and getting back to the Lexus I felt like my seating position was way-up!

The rule in terms of head space is (and that is by the way safety thing) - you should be able to put your fist between roof and your head, if fist fits with little bit of wiggle room then it is fine (even though I understand not most comfortable). If it doesn't then it is actually unsafe, because in accident you would hit the roof with your head. The only solution is to play with steering wheel and seat retraction i.e. retract seat and pull the steering towards you. Obviously, that is until you change the seat.