How-To: Modify Seating to Gain Leg Room on a Land Rover Discovery

Jonathan Hensel, who is 6' 6", modified his Land Rover Discovery seat placement so that he could have more leg room.  He shares his experiences in an article with diagrams hosted on DiscoWeb.org.

It begins:

I am sure anyone with an inseam longer than, say, a foot and a half, has noticed that the legroom in a Disco is severely lacking, and disproportionate to it's vast amount of headroom. I am 6'-6" and have had to modify seating in almost every vehicle I've owned.

This mod was done on a D1 with non-powered seats. Non-powered seats usually have more travel than powered seats anyway, and are generally easy to modify. But this was a dream in the Disco, I gained 6 inches of legroom without a single hole to be drilled, and completely reversible back to stock condition. All you need is a 5mm allen wrench (or Torx wrench). Use a ball end "L" type as opposed to a "T" handle allen wrench for accessibility.

I'd take pictures, but instead I whipped up a quick & dirty CAD model of the seat slider assembly, shown here in stock condition, in nominal "center" position. Note Blue slider rail overlaps Red frame rail completely:

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When you pull up on the adjustment handle the seat has 13 "clicks" forward and 5 "clicks" back. All the way forward:

See the full article here.