Let me be clear.... I don't mean  ' is there a lever for moving seat up and down! ) I have that located!!!

 

Just bought a mint fabia  monte carlo estate and the wife ( who is quite small in height) cannot get comfortable over longer journeys - sadly its her car!  We both notice the seat , on its lowest setting, sits really high compared to any other car wehave ever owned and that is resulting in her legs having to press down on the seat to reach pedals - causing pain..

 

Can the seats be removed and put back in LOWER?  sorry if someone has already asked this but I did look

 

One for the tecky's I hope.

 

utter despair !! just bought the flaming thing!   wumen.....

Strange that, although different people with similar heights and leg lengths, adjust seats differently to achieve their "best" driving position.  My wife is probably 4ft 10in and she can easily set up the latest version of Polo SEL seat to suit her, though she sits seriously far too close to the steering wheel and does so in any car I've seen her driving!  Do you think that it is the design of the MC seats - are they "sports" shaped seats?  So far, after I've owned my Audi S4 for 3.5 years my wife has never attempted to drive it - I'd rather that she did take it out for a spin just so that if need be, she can drive it, I have serious doubts if she would be able to drive it as the clutch needs to be fully floored to enable the starter.

 

Though, you asking about the possibility of lowering the seat on that Fabia reminds me that I've always found that her 2015 Polo SEL front seat, in its lowest position, is a lot higher than they were on her 2002 Polo SE - though I've learned to live with that.

thanks rum, its a real shame as they are great wee cars! having just paid main dealer price for one im staring down the barell of trade in !! urgh..   The seat is standard very high , but then its what you r used too but yeah it is set v high and as she has to press down on the seat with her leg to reach pedals, she is just wanting rid.

 

Raging !

Did she not drive it before buying.

You could buy another seat and fit, as long as understanding the electrics. 

 

or store that standard seat and go get some other seat that a Car Trimmer can modify to suit. 

Seats available from Breakers and there are car trimmers in the central belt that can do you a job. Maybe a few hundred quid, and less than trading the car again.

 

Peculiar! I have many vertically challenged students and although pedal hight is not an issue, I find taller folk lower the seat, short/medium raise it until you reach the Ahem, smaller statute persons, who then have to lower a little again as they find that having the seat so far forward, they need to lower it to avoid a  knee-to-dash interface scenario...

 

However, I have never found the seat to not be lower-able enough to accommodate anyone to date and I live in a community which consists of many Asian women, who do tend, on the whole, to be more diminutive then there average European counterpart!  Have you checked that either, the lowering mechanism has not been jammed etc so as not to offer full lowering (Count the full length cranks from top to bottom) Or that the previous owner has not had the frame "Raised" To some degree. I would have thought that was a more likely thing for a shorty, then to not get low enough.

 

As an aside, when I do have miniscule students, they often lower the seat a little, and then ADD a cushion to pad the bottom (Bum) End of the seat, thus making the ergonomic angle of the seat a little different. Raise the bum, keep the legs slightly lower. Perhaps that might be a short (No pun intended) Term solution for your wife. I keep a garden chair seat cushion in the car, just for this purpose. It is black, so blends nicely, fits nicely on the seat and is not too puffy to squidge and move around. It also has a tie-on cord, which I use to drape it over one of the rear headrests, when not in use.