Thanks so much man i ve just done the modification on my honda fit and it feels much better, you made it seem quite easy, though i struggled with straightening this only one bend foot but i managed, thanks so much.. Everyone in Lesotho can come and i ll help if you are unwilling to do by yourself.
You can save additional money by just making the ends of the bars seen in this video. Instead of two long bars you make four short bars. Each one has two holes. This is not only cheaper but easier because there are less bends. The force needed to bend the short bars will require more leverage. You will also not be creating a place where objects can become wedged. Like they can with the longer bars. This is NOT a critique of the video. Great job. This is only a suggestion for another way to get the job done. Thanks for sharing Screen Share.
No because they need to be connected together making one piece because sooner or later the whole seat will be start to slide and left and right also in some states you will not be able to pass inspection...
@@IvanRossS I hear you SS. I really think you will find that side to side movement will not be an issue. We can agree to disagree. :) Inspection could be an issue. Though I do believe the strength is basically the same. All the forces are still being reacted through the original seat frame and original rails. As you pointed out, the new bars are thicker than the metal in the seat rails. There is an old patent for a seat that protects the passenger by deforming metal in the seat mount. Two wedges were stacked. One attached to the car floor. One attached to the seat. On frontal impact the the passenger/driver would rise as the wedges stretched metal bands which bound them together. The inventor demonstrated the effectiveness by personally driving and impacting stationary objects at 60 miles per hour. This was after seat belts but before airbags. Some time in the sixties. It is a really tough call to judge how the seat mods will work compared to stock in crashes. My guess, it is a guess, is they will do well. Both the long and the short. No guarantees. Clearly we cannot take responsibility for what people do with these ideas because workmanship and materials vary greatly. Each person is their own designer, fabricator, installer, and mechanic.
Since with the Fit you are literally sitting on the gas tank it is one of the most difficult cars to modify for a seat extension. This is why at the time I chose a Matrix instead of a Fit because from the showroom by observing the floor I knew that the extension project on the Fit would be complicated . This is still possible but it will have been necessary, as you did, to shim your brakets with washers to match this very uneven floor . Even executing it, the result is very strange cause now you have the protruding hump of the tank now extremely exposed so it's no longer possible to drive with one knees bent and one of your foot flat on one side. From the road test of the Fit I knew that I wouldn't be comfortable there even if I modified it. Too bad because the packaging of the Fit was better than that of the Matrix.
It annoys me to hear car reviews when the tester says that the cabin is spacious for tall people because their heads don't touch the ceiling: ridiculous, it's the legroom that matters most to me when you have an inseam of 99cm.I myself have modified the dozen vehicles I have had in my life to extend the movement towards the rear of the driver's seats. But there is one thing that cannot be addressed*, it is the steering wheel which is often too far away on most so modified drivers seat . Only one car out of the dozen I have where the steering wheel had enough backing was a second generation Scion XB. * Steering hub extender could be add ... but make sure you have long fingers to reach the stalk ctrl . BTW the fact of building your bracket yourself causes a problem and it is that of the insurance which may not pay if it discovers the addition. I've never had a problem with this, but a disclaimer would be appropriate here.
Thanks for the how to video! Hoping to do something like this on my 1996 honda civic ex sedan because im 6'5 and its pretty hard to move my leg to hit the clutch!
thanks for the needed help you the only one that doing a DIY on this I Was searching for this for long time didint find no help I hope it can work on my matrix 🤞
I bought it from Lowes. Paid $100 I think.. I probably going to have it until the rest of my life lol. it's very very durable compared to Harbor Freight crap that I had
Crash ?? So I would like you to explain to me . If you're an expert what would happen during the crash ?? How would my extension (that made out of a single piece) reflect on a crash results 🤔 . Please I'm waiting ! I would really like to hear your expertise
Would not be a problem at all, but I would not power on the vehicle, because your seat have airbags so SRS system will catch that your airbag was disconnected and it might throw a code that is hard to clear.
These are DeWalt bits that I had for very long time. I should have used just step single drill bit, it would works so so much better. I just did not have step drill bit at this time of recording this video
I have a Saturn Aura XR that I'm going to have to do this to move the seat back by at least 2 inches cause even all the way back and down its still hard to get in out of
