Well I'm calling it Eight Way (I think it 6 way), but has anybody changed their passengers seat to raise up & down like the drivers side? I'm guessing the best or easiest way is to get a UK version of the lower portion mechanicals & electricals of seat. I was just wondering because one of the reasons my wife and I don't take the SRT6 out much is because she hates sitting so low, I keep a pillow in the back for her to sit on for when we do take it out.

 

Sounds like you do all the driving.
In that case, a cheaper method would be to just block up the passenger seat with spacers.

 

that's a great idea! my wife complained too that the seat is too low!

 

I did considered that, but if anyone else was to be in the passengers seat they would have their head crunched into the top. My wife has long legs, but from the waist up she is abnormally short, but don't tell her I said that.

 

You had me at 'long legs'. :-) Seriously, I though our Crossfire was defective the first time I tried to raise the passenger seat like the driver's seat. Try as I might, it wasn't budging. In a rare moment indeed, I got out the owner's manual only to find out it wasn't like the driver's seat. It would be good if it were a touch higher ...

Mike

 

I had the same idea last year, but a UK/European Drivers Seat will run you about $2,200 (US) + S/H...not cheap.

 

I don't know if the floor pan where the seats mount is the same height on the left hand side of the car as it is on the right. The mechanism for the 8 way seat may be taller (due to being able to move up & down), and this may put the passenger higher up than the driver - this links into my first sentence stating that the floor pans may be different - I know in my Mustang the passenger floor pan where the seat mounted was higher than the drivers side floor pan. So you may be screwing 'normal' proportioned people who sit in the passenger seat if you put the 8 way system on.

 

A lot of people may not know this yet, but ALL Mopar vehicles starting in '06 I believe or it may be the '07 models. The drivers seats will not raise up. The reason I know this is because the wife and I were looking at getting her a new vehicle this past summer. We were looking at a Commander Limited & a Grand Cherokee Limited and she noticed the drivers seat would not raise up on either vehicle. We have had two Grand Cherokee Limited's in the past and on both of them the drivers and I think the passenger's seats raised up. So I asked the salesman what was up with the seats not raising up, he told me because of the air bag systems they quit the seat raising up option on all Chrysler products, so she decided on another Envoy.

 

I guess this one would be a good one for WOODY. HEY WOODY, GOT ANY INPUT ON THIS SUBJECT?

 

I'm not convinced about the seats not being able to raise because of the air bag system - why?
I'm sure that you can raise/tilt the steering wheel.
Therefore, the geometry between the seat and the air bag can still be changed - the seat still slides, and that affects the geometry - so the airbag will still hit different people at different positions (people have always come in differnet shapes & sizes too).
In my opinion (I'm in the automotive industry), it's a cost reduction. And you NEVER tell a customer that you didn't want to do something because it cost too much.

 

I agree with you 100%, but that's just what the salesman told me. But really go down to the local Chrysler dealership and check out either of the vehicle's I mentioned and you will find the 8 way, (raise up) option is not available. Our new '07 Envoy Denali has 8 way driver & passenger's seats.

 

The Benz has 'em on both sides too. It's a cost issue.