Kev T

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Hello and welcome, i found this on the USA site about seat raising a few months ago and did it myself, it only takes a few minutes but does improve visibility. DIY: How to raise your factory seat to improve visibility Been seeing several posts asking how to raise the factory seats, so here it is. The original idea came from a member "modshack" about 3yrs ago. I tried it long time ago and gave me great results. here's what i did... As with any DIY, do at your own risk!! First go to your local AceHardware.. they seem to have the best selection of loose metric screws and washers. You want to get: a. 2pcs: Grade5 (or 8) metric screw M10x40 or M10x50 1.25pitch (10mm diameter, 40 to 50mm in length) b. 2pcs: 1" thick wide collars or bunch of large washers that your M10 screws can fit through. Make sure these are wide collars (spacers) as your seat rails will sit on them. c. 2pcs: Large washers that your screw can fit through. You will use these above the rails. d. Assortment of large diameter spacers that your M10 screw can fit through for backup. I ended up using a box of the large washers you see up at top under the screws. Tools needed: Small flathead screw driver or pick-tool, socket, adapter, and ratchet. Torque wrench (to do 36ft/lbs). Now onto your car's driver seat: 1) Seat rail mounting bolts are hidden under black plastic caps. Just pop them off with a small flathead screwdriver or pick-tool. There are 4 of them (2 front, 2 rear). In this pict you can see the black cap sitting up side down near the screw driver. 2) Then loosen the front 2 bolts (dont remove the screws, just loosen real good). 3)Then slide seat forward, remove the 2 black caps and the 2 rear bolts completely. Keep an eye on how much thread went into the floor so that when you put your new M10x40 (or M10x50) screw in, you dont go in too deep. store factory bolts in safe place for when you want to sell the car. 4) Raise the back of the seat and rail off the floor (seat isn't that heavy), and place your two thick 1" collars(spacers) between the seat rail and the floor. you can easily do different heights ranging anywhere from 1/4" to about 1-1/4". align the screw holes so that you can thread your M10x40 (or M10x50) bolt through. 5)Then take the M10x40 (or M10x50) screws you bought, place washers (and spacers if bolt is too long) and thread it from above the seat rail into the floor. At this point I recommend you slide your seat back, sit in your seat to see if that's the desired height. It's better to set it up slightly too high and lower your seat using the seat adjuster. Obviously if you put too many washers your headrest will hit the ceiling. lol dont do that. Once you got it to where you want it, tighten the screws to 36ft/lbs. if you dont have a torque wrench, it's tight but not super tight. Here you can see that i used a lot of large washers. The screw i used was M10x50 so it was a bit on the long side for the added height i wanted. I used washers on top of the rail to compensate the length so i dont go in too deep into the floor. Close up: This is what the finished product looks like on the rear 2 screws. NOTE: Once you place your seat back to your driving position you will not see these screws or washers so dont worry about the aesthetics. 6) Then side your seat back, torque down the 2 front rail bolts to 36ft/lbs. 7) leave the black caps off for now as you will need to retorque all 4 bolts after a few drives. retorque 3-4 times until they do not loosen anymore. 8) place black caps on the rail bolts and you're done. Depending on the screw you bought, the black caps may not fit over the screw head. GL! 7-28-2012: Just a follow up... i took everything apart today as i was working on another project unrelated to this DIY... inspected everything for any signs of weird wear. no such thing found after 3yrs.

Nice, i think Anne Summers do flesh toned knobs but black carbon fibre could catch on !

This is on my list of things to do !

Contacted WLMG at Shepperton and car booked in for next month ( earliest i could attend ) for steering lock change on my 2010.

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That looks like Titanium Gray.

Signed up, good luck with the campaign.

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Silver/grey 350 LX 54 @ the Elephant tonight around 6.30pm.

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Silver grey 350 with really slammed suspension at Elephant and Castle roundabout at around 1.30pm today fri 29/3.

Pearl white 370 with personal plate ending in ZOE guessing it was a lady driver.

It's amazing ( and scarey ) how quickly 3 years passes, my 370 had its MOT end of last month and passed with only small cat in Y pipe as it's running with Motordyne decats..

Hello and welcome, i have Eibach ARBs on my 370 and would definitely recommend them, they also look nice in red.

Hello and welcome to another '70 owner.

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Pretty good

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Entertaining.

Hello and welcome. And we complain about £460 road tax !!

+ 1 for the Stillen Gen 3 very nice sound and blings the engine bay up nicely.

Around 7.30 yesterday evening ( sunday ) heading towards New Kent rd VU60 *** first one i have seen for ages, would have given a wave but i was in my old banger.

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I've got both and a vented undertray to keep track temps down.