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One of the reasons I chucked the Accord off the list at last purchase was that the woman's side seat has no height adjustment, which seems a mad omission. So Mrs D couldn't see well enough ahead to complain effectively about my driving. No use.
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Pica
The seat adjustment was via a handle that was pumped on the right hand side of the driver's seat. The salesman worked this like the village pump until (he said) the seat had descended as far as it would go.
Your height must be in your legs, mines in the body (footballers' legs). He had me sit in the saloon, and that was no improvement.
There is a possibility that the salesman was duff - there's a second dealership near by; I'll give it a 2nd go.
Dipstick
Has your wife seen this? Strangely enough the "woman's side" (I like it) seat was marginally better - I didn't need the sunroof open.
Many moons back, I suffered like this in a Volvo 480 and a Reliant Scimitar - I couldn't even get into the Scimitar.
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Dipstick - surely there can't be too many cars with a height adjuster for the passenger seat?
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"surely there can't be too many cars with a height adjuster for the passenger seat?"
I dunno - I think I've had that on most of the cars I've had after leaving the Renaults of my youth behind years back, mostly because they rattled themselves to death within three months, and a car with any rattles being a bête noire of mine.
It wasn't a deal-breaker on the Accord, but it was "just one more thing" that made it not quite right for us, which was a real shame. I loved most of it. Mrs D really went off it after a moment's inevitable girliness with her handbag led to a tailgate chinning situation on the extended test drive, and she looked at it with narrowed eyes for some time after that.
I had no problems with fitting in the car, I have to say, and I'm only a tad under six foot. Mrs D might prefer me to rearrange the last three words there, but that's another story.
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You're right! we must be different shapes because I also had a Reliant Scimitar for 13 years and I had no problem with that either :)
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