Front swivel seats in fiat ducato ci (4 Viewers)

[Chris rushton]

I have brought the fiat ducato motorhome but I am uncomfortable with the driving position . the seat won't lower enough and the wife can't reach the pedals at all! when she is a passenger she has to use the peg bag to rest her feet on! could I use none swivel bases to reduce the seat height? thanks for any help.

 

[pyro]

Welcome. I will refrain from suggesting a taller wife may help

As far as I know, the regular van seats could be retro fitted, someone here will know

 

[IanF]

Yes they can I've done it -no problem at all to do to fit swivel base which in fact raise the seats some 30 mm approx. I wanted to lower ours but the leisure batteries are housed under the seats. It would be no real challenge to lower the base box for the seats if you do not require the void for anything.

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[Chris rushton]

Yeah. one of the leasure batterys is under the drivers seat. I think I'll pay a visit to the breakers and measure up.

 

[BwB]

I'd be surprised if you needed new seats. Most just have a swivel plate fitted between the base and the seat slide. Unbolt it and take out the swivel. (providing you check room left for leisure battery, connectors for seat belt electrics etc)

 

[Nik]

Do you not have the two little handles recessed on the base side which allows for the seat to be tilted?
It took me a while to discover mine.
Regards
Nik.

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[Chris rushton]

Errrrrr?

 

[Mother Ship]

I couldn't drive or be comfortable as passenger til I discovered the tilt handle - really makes big difference to us short legs!

 

[MikeD]

I wonder if the convertor changed the seat mounting for the lower version.

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The swivel adds around 30mm.

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[Chris rushton]

Cheers one and all. I knew there was a front adjusters but I have only just found the rear one! I can now leave the drivers seat as it is but the passenger seat has no adjusters at all so, I will remove the swivel plates on this one only.

 

[suavecarve]

We had a CI with the swivel pan tilt zoom pump up seats for 7 years. The wife is 4 foot 11 (she claims 5 foot but nobody believes her) and no trouble whatsoever with reaching the pedals. There was a tilt option but we certainly never used it after it was set up (if we ever did set it up) it was just a slide when we swapped driving.

 

[SUGGY]

As know , my wife Rosie is vertically challenged so we have one similar to one of these :-

Amazon product ASIN B001MS70F2
In front of the passenger seat , if that helps ,

Dare i suggest Platform shoes when she is driving ...

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[Feltwell]

S'alright for you shorties . I fitted a swivel to my seat, thinking that the extra inch or so in seat height would help. Then I found that the top of the windscreen was just a bit too low for comfort, the sunvisor was useless as if used I couldn't see far enough ahead to be safe, and I was looking through the bit of windscreen above where the wipers hit.

To cap it all no one was using the swivel seat once we were on site, so out it came again. Seat is shoved back as far as possible and it on a high setting but still just not *quite* enough legroom for comfort I find.

 

[Lenny HB]

My wife is 4'10" I put a piece of 18mm high density foam under the carpet on the passenger side, she never has any problems with pedals when driving.

 

[maison]

We carry a plastic folding step, (£5 from IKEA), which my wife uses to help her get in and out of the cab as she has two artificial knees, and finds the first step up too high for comfort.

A piece of string attached allows it to be pulled up after use or lowered when getting out. It stows neatly in the door pocket.

When travelling, if she wishes to raise her feet, she simply puts the step in front of her in the cab. Easy Peary!

We have not resorted to removing the swivel base as, when the seat is turned rearfacing, it is just the right height for her to place her legs on the dinette seat.

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[suavecarve]

I think there is enough interest to form a group of motorhomers with vertically challenged wives !

 

[Reallyretired]

SWMBO is vertically challenged and I obtained a small toolbox which is the right height for her to put her feet on for comfort. It contains pegs and awning tie downs etc.
She doesn't drive the MH anyway so I had to pay extra to have her removed from the Insurance. (the insurance company won't pay for recovery in the event of a driver being unable to drive, if there is another person present who could)

 

[mikebeaches]

Interestingly, I reckon the swivel seats in our Ducato X290 are slightly lower than the ones in the previous X250?

I'm not sure if the swivels are a Fiat option original equipment, or whether they are installed by the converter? I'd suspect the former?

In any case, I'm a tad short of legroom now, but at least the top of the windscreen doesn't obscure my forward vision so much...

Anybody else noticed a difference?

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[Jaws]

Like others, we have a small plastic fold up step thing that Woman uses ( when she has not got her feet up on the dash !! )

 

[maison]

Like others, we have a small plastic fold up step thing that Woman uses ( when she has not got her feet up on the dash !! )

I reckon my wife would like to do that as she always used to travel with her feet on the dashboard before she started to have joint problems.

We have videos of crossing the Millau bridge, driving the Ardeche Gorge and travelling through the Picos de Europa with her feet figuring prominently in the foreground.

 

[Deneb]

Just a quick public information broadcast, but I've been to several collisions over the years which have involved horrendous injuries to passengers as a result of them having their feet up on the dashboard at the time. One was a car with five occupants shunted from behind on the motorway. Driver and three rear seat passengers all uninjured. Front passenger who had been travelling with her feet up on the dashboard ended up in a wheelchair for the rest of her life having broken her spine. I wouldn't recommend it.

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[32143]

I'm a little bit short, only a little mind. Problem I have is to reach the pedals when driving have to pull seat fully forward, but then my shins are hitting the plastic moulding
So I make Nige drive mostly. I usually sit crossed legged in passenger seat to avoid my legs dangling
Blood pain at toll booths as well as my arms match the rest of me

Lin