I hate my seats!

robandjeanne · Apr 20, 2007

I can't see the seat extension pics. How do I view them? Thanks.

robandjeanne · Apr 21, 2007

For those who can't see these pictures, Joel sent me the 3 key pictures showing the front and back mounts and the way they were extended, thanks Joel. I put them in the files area of Yahoo groups Prius_Technical_Stuff under the heading "More Legroom Prius 2G". I couldn't seem to get into the photo area of priuschat, or I would have added them there as well. Using the brackets shown almost looks like a do it yourself project, especially if we can put our heads together. Of course, if someone has found anyone in the DC area that will do this job at a reasonable price ($150/seat), please let us know.

Rob

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Sorry to everyone for this reply taking so long. This thing has gotten pretty funky to track down. My friend who's car was mod'ed has not found the paperwork on the mod. So I called the Toyota Body Shop that did they work. They insist this can't be done, and they never did such a thing. Hmmm, that's amazing. They looked up his service records and insist there is no indication of the work there either. So I have not been able to track down the part numbers used. We are wondering if they somehow decided there was some liability in this and have removed any record of it. Who knows.

One correction to the previous posts. The point about a 2nd set of mounting holes is not correct. That was a mis-understanding someone had.

I got together with him this morning and got pictures of the mod. The fronts of the rails were moved back by putting in a couple in steel plate to effectively move the mount location back. Here are pictures of the right front and left front mounts on the passenger seat.

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The rear is very creative. On the outer rail there was a plate put under the rail end mount that moves it back, best understood by looking at the pictures.

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On the inner side, it looks like they must have drilled a new hole to mount the rear rail end back.

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This is a passenger seat, but I don't see anything that would keep the same thing from working on the drivers side. Since we can't seem to get any information out of the Toyota shop that did this work, we don't know if these are stock parts, or if they are custom made brackets. They are bent into shape to contour the floor in the front.

Sorry for the large images posted here. I'm not seeing how to post thumbnails that can be clicked on to expand. I hope this makes sense from the pictures.

Joel
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bsietz · Aug 15, 2007

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I hated the lack of legroom too. After much research, I found a solution. I took my 05 #6 Prius (ie: with nav) to New England Wheels in Billerica MA. There's a guy there who moves seats back for Boston Celtics players. He's done it many times on lots of different cars. He didn't even need to look at the Prius to tell me he could do it. They charged about $300. It took about 3 hours and moved both my front seats back 3 inches.
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Has anyone else worked with New England Wheels to have this mod performed? What was your outcome and were you happy with the work?

glaf8421 · Dec 31, 2008

I am replacing the driver's seat next week with a Ricaro topline seat XL. I'm a tall driver too. If that works out the passenger's set will be replaced too. Long drives are really uncomfortable to me.

Grant
Miami
Plugs in L5 conversion September 2008

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