My 6'1" son drives a 1990 Jeep Wrangler YJ (manual shift) and even with his height, generally keeps the driver seat all the way forward. When I (5'9") drive it, I can reach the pedals, but just barely. He goes off to college next year and the Jeep has to stay home where we'd like to have his sister (5'4") use it. Otherwise, we have to purchase another car. The problem, of course, is that she just cannot reach the pedals. For some reason, this vehicle seems to have been designed for tall-ish people only.
I've looked at the seat adjustment and where the sliding rails on the seat bottom are bolted to the seat tilt mechanism, it looks like I might be able to drill another set of holes in the tilt mechanism about 1-1/2" forward of the existing holes and just re-position the seat. But I don't think 1-1/2" is going to be enough for my daugher. Repositioning the seat tilt mechanism on the floor does not appear to be an option becasue the floor is not flat and the bottom of this mechanism is contoured to the floor. Moving it forward would cause a mis-match in the contours.
Does anybody have any others ideas for getting this seat further forward? I would even consider replacing the seats and tilt mechanism...that's a lot cheaper than buying a new vehicle. (Replacing the Jeep itself is not an option!). Maybe there are longer seat slides available for the seat??...that would be ideal. I suppose I could even put blocks on the pedals, but this seems a little hokie and we're probably talking 4" thick blocks on all three pedals.
Thanks for any ideas.
Rick