Pokey seat corners

[adauria]

Hi folks,

After putting 500 miles on my 2022 GT-1 this week (first week of ownership), I am wrestling with getting my left (non-driving) leg comfortable. The problem is that I am pretty short and the corner of the seat bottom at the front of the seat pokes into the back of my knee in a lot of otherwise comfortable leg positions. I read through 20+ pages of subject lines (and several threads) in this forum, not to mention some interwebs searching, and didn't quite find this specific issue mentioned.

If you look at the front seats in the GT-1 (which doesn't let you adjust the thigh support like the GT-2), you can see 2 corners on the flat part near the front. They seem to have some plastic re-enforcement there where the leather folds and creates an uncomfortable little corner. It doesn't feel like it will ever soften up or wear down, as they are re-enforced to stay that way. The dead pedal, in my most comfortable distance from the wheel, is a bit far for my stubby legs to get a good left foot plant on, so my leg just stretches out right over that darn corner just under my knee. It is not pleasant after a few minutes.

So far the only work-around I have found is to keep my left leg more upright/bent at the knee, but it keeps wanting to slip back there, especially when I sit up straight and not default to my usual slouch. If I can't find a better solution, I'm going to have to learn to sit differently I guess, but at my age and with my lousy back there aren't too many positions that my body doesn't complain about.

Anyone else have this issue? More importantly, anyone find a good way to deal with it? Thanks in advance!

-Andrew

 

[MerlintheMad]

Your "lousy back" and you slouch?

Here's what I learned about adjusting driving position, since I finally have a performance car with a fully adjustable seat. (so what if it is "only" twelve-way and not sixteen, hah!):

No pressure on the underside of the thighs near the knees: your placement of your heels should lift your legs - bent at the knees - just enough to not have the weight of your legs on the seat except where you actually sit, i.e., your butt and upper thighs. I don't worry about seat angle, however, until I satisfy the following:

Seatback upright so that both wrists, with arms outstretched and shoulders against the seatback, rest on the top of the steering wheel. Headrest should be just brushing the back of your head or almost.

(Seeing the turn signals can be challenging to achieve, if you're tall, which you say is not an issue. But if you were taller, you might have to lower the seat to the floor, and/or raise the steering column in combination in order to see the full instrument cluster.)

At this point, adjust the steering column in, if you are reaching for the pedals; and move the seat forward; use the seatback in combo to achieve comfortable upright position, wrists on top of steering wheel, and seat forward, steering column in/out, until your feet comfortably rest on the pedals.

If you have any pressure on the bottom of your upper legs, now angle the seat down in front; lower the seat if necessary.

(lousy back: after all of the above, we have lumbar support to tweak a final adjustment to support our sacroiliac )

 

[adauria]

Thanks for the excellent walkthrough on this! You have definitely given me some things to try.

While going through this, I found that I already had the seat bottom angle at it's most downward tilt. I went back and forth, played with the wheel position, etc., but no matter what that darn corner keeps poking me. I need a seat that isn't as long.

So I did the next best thing and used a memory foam lumbar cushion to reduce the distance between the back of my seat and the front edge of it. This seems to be working, though I definitely need a little more tweaking of angles and such to make sure my upper back is fully supported and my knees don't bang into the steering column. I am making some progress though!

I was starting to even think about having an upholstery shop take those darn corners off somehow, but hopefully I can avoid anything so drastic on my brand new car.

-Andrew

 

[MerlintheMad]

I'm confident that you will come up with a combination that works. You might even install an elevation in front of the dead pedal to rest your heel on; that would raise your left thigh.

 

[adauria]

I'm confident that you will come up with a combination that works. You might even install an elevation in front of the dead pedal to rest your heel on; that would raise your left thigh.

Oh, didn't know that was something I could buy? Do they have them specific to the Stinger?

 

[MerlintheMad]

No. This would have to be a crafted thing. Give it some thought. First idea that comes to mind is to look for a block of wood, with a heel indent machined/carved into it, with the proper angle to match the dead pedal: and you could adhere it with 3M tape to the aluminum. If this works, then you could get really crafty and make the heel rest out of some exotic wood and make a point of letting people know how customized your driving position is.

 

[adauria]

No. This would have to be a crafted thing. Give it some thought. First idea that comes to mind is to look for a block of wood, with a heel indent machined/carved into it, with the proper angle to match the dead pedal: and you could adhere it with 3M tape to the aluminum. If this works, then you could get really crafty and make the heel rest out of some exotic wood and make a point of letting people know how customized your driving position is.

Sounds like a fun project! thanks for all the ideas.

-Andrew