Righto, I'm finding these to be a mite small, both on the backrest and seat base, and slightly close to the front (i.e. not quite enough leg room)
So - is there any way of:
- modifying so the seats can move a smidgen further back?
or
- Replacing the seats with decent sized ones, out of another ford perhaps? Maybe Fiesta or even Focus seats or something? Will they be fairly easy to just take the old ones out and pop some different ford ones in, or is this going to be a right bitch?
Cheers
This bit of the post didn't make sense:
So I decided to slow down a bit until I fix it, and then think about getting some better seats, as I only start sliding out of them when I'm really cracking on.
See if you can get the interior from the Luxury, or at least the seats, because they're a different shape and much more comfortable (with a slightly longer seat squab, so if you're tall they're a lot better).
This isn't why we've got a Luxury, but having tried lots and lots of Kas, I'm glad we bought one now.
Oh, and the Luxury interior is also full leather. ;)
Not a bad idea at all that...wonder how much the interior would cost from a breakers. Just the front seats might look a little...odd! How's the seat back? It is much taller than the standard seats? (the seat back seems to kind of stick out a bit at the top, right where my shoulders are - not the most ergonomic if you're over 6ft!!)
Are you in the Ka Klub? Somebody was advertising a Millennium Ka being broken :( within the Klub just t'other day, but it was snapped up pretty quickly. The Millennium Ka has the black leather interior . . . interiors are not all that expensive . . . Ford want(ed) £750 for just leather seat covers for standard seats as an aftermarket option.
As for the seat back, I don't think it's any taller, but the seat has better adjustment - so the _effective_ length is better. I'm 6'2" and I fit in it no problems. Kaituna95 is several inches taller than I, and he has a LuxuryKa, fits in no problems, either.
Ooh. A leather interior would be nice. I wonder if I could fit in Jag front seats :). Is swapping the dash in and out a big job (Mine has a grey dash, I've seen a few Kas with black / dark grey dashboards)?
I think you ought to sit down for this Dervman.
I actually have some cash, and I'm going to join the Ka Klub. Then I'm going to find out about some BFO brakes. Or at least ones that don't fade after 10 minutes of hammer around Norfolk lanes :).
Maybe one, in the middle, if you relocated the gearlever! :)
It's not _too_ difficult, more fiddle, as I understand it.
/sits down/
Wahey!
If you want powerful brakes, we've a thread on this at the moment, and the consensus of opinion is get some from the Mondeo . . . or mark three / four Fester / Puma / vented-brake Ka . . . :)
That's the subject of some discussion! My own personal opinion isn't the same as many (mine is that it's not worth bothering with unless you're running an _extreme_ suspension set up).
My tyres never screech, they just make scrubbing sorta noises, the tyres of the steelies screeched tho, lots, lots indeed...
-- Dan
Depends on the tyre in my experience. The current tyres start screeching, even under braking before losing grip. Makes judging heavy braking a lot easier. A lot also seems to depend on how you go into the the corner. I can make my car understeer and not screech, or go around the corner fairly balanced and screech.
My 205/45/16's just grip like a bastard, making it understeer, or oversteer, takes some SERIOUS effort, its fully possible to make it slide obviously, and it will eventually screech, when it starts to slide :)
-- Dan
screeching,
Now that's a challenge!
It also depends on wear, too. Lucy, the Mondeo, had Armstrongs (budget Pirelli booties) that wailed their protest just before they started letting go, so a nice-to-know sound if, for some reason, you didn't otherwise know! :)
My Cinquecento's Michelin's wailed a long, long time before they started letting go.
Kermit's previous Continentals wailed at the point where they were thinking about letting go until down to under 3mm, when they wailed and whined quite a bit under load. The fronts were a higher pitched noise than the rears too (rears had a totally different pattern), and the rear left was a bit higher than the rear right. It was possible to play three blind mice if you tried hard enough on roundabouts.
The Firestone's he's wearing merely grumble when they're thinking about letting go, but they're still just about brand new, and I've not had the opportunity to properly goon them just yet.
Firestones? I've heard nowt but bad things about them. I had one on my car :P.
The Fester courtesy car I recently borrowed enjoyed the 1.25 Zetec donk, and F590 tyres . . . regrettably, the extra power was too much for the tyres! :)
Kermit wears 165/60/15H, Firestone F700 "Fuel Savers," which is a cool name, heh heh. :)
LOL, they must have been some SERIOUSLY bad tyres ;)
Well . . . perhaps. But it was wet and I was deliberately doing something you'd not ordinarily be doing :) all for the benefit of my website!
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John C.
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