Defender front seatsand backache !

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Lancelot

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I have the 110 double cab. Love it, but recently we have been travelling a little further. OK, call it about 200mls. Blimey my back and buttocks can ache. We all know there is little adjustment so I am wondering if there are more comfortable and supportive seats available to fit
Worth a try, you just never know.
Only joined tonight, site looks good

Cheers
 
lots of better seats available in the mags,as are mud rails...these give an extra 2''of travel
last year i did 986miles in one day(left home at 2am,arrived sw france at 2300)....i needed more than a new seat that day!
 
Beast o Bodmin said:
buy a range rover,Im 6"5" and ave had just about enough of the deepender squish.I have me knee bashed every time i press the brake and me heed hits the roof.

NO MORE DEFENDER SQUISH FOR ME
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i'm taller than you, there's at least another 4" of headroom left before my heads hits the roof, there's more than enough knee room and i dont need to drive with the window open

did you used to work in a circus ?
 
Backache during driving is caused by bad positioning of yourself in the seat. I found that raising the seat height quite high so that your legs are supported under the knees and making the seat back almost bolt upright helps a lot. The standard seats in a Defender aren't great but a new seat base which hasn't collapsed into a flat thing and a new seat back have helped lots.

I did 10 years of field service work driving an Astra Estate 5 hours+ a day and got quite into research on human seating positions. The same holds for office seating. I had backache sat here at my desk until I forced the powers that be into raising my desk by 3 inches on bricks and giving me a better chair with more leg and under knee support.

There is a lot of conflicting info out there, like the govenment saying that the monitor needs to be about head height, whereas a really old IBM study said the best place is in the desk just above the keyboard.
After putting my monitor as low on the desk as I can I got rid of the RSI in my neck and shoulders. Getting a trackball mouse and an ergonimic "broken" keyboard solved my wrist RSI.
 
My mate stuck some old Pug 205 bucket seats in his and they are brilliant, I have similar buckets and they were Ok on a 460 odd mile round trip. Only problem is that they grab your bollocks as you try and slide out.
 
if you wanted comfort should have bought a freelander..........

(seats in the main dealers while you wait for it to be repaired are lovely for a few hours!, recovery truck is pretty spacious too !)
 
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