The seats are absolutely fine. All the electrics work, they're lovely and warm when you press the bum-warming button. They're nice and supportive when you're pressing on a bit, and comfortable down the motorway. In fact the whole car is still just rather great.
However.
There's a woman involved.
Specifically, my woman.
See, she's started having driving lessons recently and is rather enjoying them too. Running two cars is out of the question as the ST tends to sit on the drive most days looking pretty but not turning a wheel in anger. So I've reluctantly resigned myself to the fact that she will, when she's passed her test and I'm confident of her ability (read as: she has to pass my driving test as well), use the car on a nearly daily basis.
So, as a little introduction to the joys of the ST, the other day I thought I'd let her have a little jaunt backwards and forwards outside our house, if nothing else to just start to give her a little bit of confidence and a realisation of how much bigger the Mondeo is than the baby Citroen she's learning in.
And that's when it happened.
She's... erm.... not particularly tall. Vertically challenged? Half-pint? Small in stature?
And even with the seat fully forward, she can't put the clutch pedal down all the way. And she's not happy about it. This evening, in all seriousness, she said I had to sell the car and get a proper car she can drive.
So, apart from telling her to get her own bloody car, is there anything I can do? Is there any way of physically moving the whole seat assembly forward a few inches to help things along?
I feel this may cause many more arguments and falling's out than it should if there's no easy way round it.
Ideas, chaps??
However.
There's a woman involved.
Specifically, my woman.
See, she's started having driving lessons recently and is rather enjoying them too. Running two cars is out of the question as the ST tends to sit on the drive most days looking pretty but not turning a wheel in anger. So I've reluctantly resigned myself to the fact that she will, when she's passed her test and I'm confident of her ability (read as: she has to pass my driving test as well), use the car on a nearly daily basis.
So, as a little introduction to the joys of the ST, the other day I thought I'd let her have a little jaunt backwards and forwards outside our house, if nothing else to just start to give her a little bit of confidence and a realisation of how much bigger the Mondeo is than the baby Citroen she's learning in.
And that's when it happened.
She's... erm.... not particularly tall. Vertically challenged? Half-pint? Small in stature?
And even with the seat fully forward, she can't put the clutch pedal down all the way. And she's not happy about it. This evening, in all seriousness, she said I had to sell the car and get a proper car she can drive.
So, apart from telling her to get her own bloody car, is there anything I can do? Is there any way of physically moving the whole seat assembly forward a few inches to help things along?
I feel this may cause many more arguments and falling's out than it should if there's no easy way round it.
Ideas, chaps??
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