Jimny for tall people?

Daniel30 wrote: Welcome to the forum blimey yeah not much room in the jimny for you! I suppose you could take out the seat and change it for something lower and bolted directly to the floor?

What Like a settee

Fladdem wrote: Hi all, first post been lurking for a bit.

Is there a way of dropping the seat a smidgeon and then my legs should sort themselves out without having to move the switch, unless there is a neat way of relocating it.

Thanks a lot!

Hi and welcome.
I am 6'1" and have my seats lifted 2" yet still have a fist's clearance above my head. Maybe one thing that might help the leg rubbing is to move the seats back a few inches. As for headroom will reclining the seat a notch or so help? There are examples of brackets made to move the seat farther back on the forum.

Yeah like the one in your's Gus

Daniel30 wrote: Yeah like the one in your's Gus

Bugger!!! There's a spy in the camp....I've been rumbled

Daniel30 wrote: Yeah like the one in your's Gus
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Daniel30 wrote: Yeah like the one in your's Gus

It's awful.

I have made sets ready for mounting (and sell these )

suzuki4u.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&...a79fc4ae68f19962342b

www.bigjimny.com/index.php/forum/6-jimny...-seat-position#66754

NB: be aware to secure the front bracket in the extra hole, like mine, otherwise the whole seat can twist sideways !

6'3" and nearly 16 stone I fit fine but leg does rest on door but still find it very comfy I wouldn't worry pal and you will get to love the little thing

Yeah, I suspect dropping the seat further back would help with the legs. Smart-looking brackets.

I'm not sure if all jimnys have the same roof bar in the centre but mines the soft top, so the head is very close to that anyway, although, two inches further back may put my head beyond that bar, sorting both issues in one, or possibly putting it directly below it.

I already love it, I passed my test in January and since then I have had a 1997 1.0 Micra, a 2002 1.25 Fiesta, an 05 Fiat Stilo 1.9JTD Estate and now this 2002 1.3 Jimny. I learned to drive in my dads 1958 Land Rover Series 2, this Jimny is the ultimate cross between Micra and Land Rover. I was out and about in it today, trying out some new lanes near Redditch, put about 4 hours in and went everywhere his 7 grand defender went.

I was thinking about fitting some bucket seats, if they're lower, because my mates just took a set out of his Defender to put some others in, so I'll have a look at them first.

Suzuki is known for making cars for the Asian market hence if you look at their range you can see the cars are more to the smaller size person. What I did notice when test driving them is the manual got more space for the leg than the automatic due of the clutch. It seems the automatic gear is wider approaching the engine bay and takes up some leg room. You will feel crowded and tend to hinge your shoulder over to look under the roof at the windshield unless you but the back way back as seats can't be lowered. My suggestion if Suzuki is ever going consider western counties known for XL and super XL sizes is to make the Jimny with a driver in the center and increase the Tyre size to handle the extra weight. They are just not design for the large people comfort. Other than that it drives much better than the previous gen.