Head Room

[Bucky1]

New to me 2011 Denali XL. Really like it.
However, the seat sits pretty high for a 6'3" guy. The set will go up, and then down to a point where it stops. The thing is, I don't know if that is where it should stop. The passenger seat is about the same.
Is there a measuement I can take for reference? Any help is appreciated.
It is a sunroof model, and I know that doesn't help headroom. But my hair is touching the ceiling. And no I don't have a fro.

 

[swathdiver]

It's 41.1 inches and I recently saw a drawing but cannot remember where. The seat can often go lower if it is more level. I'm 5'8" and can wear my Sam Houston hat without hitting the headliner.

 

[Danny3737]

It's 41.1 inches and I recently saw a drawing but cannot remember where. The seat can often go lower if it is more level. I'm 5'8" and can wear my Sam Houston hat without hitting the headliner.

I’m 4’-24” and have plenty of room in my 2004

 

[Doubeleive]

I'm 6'4 1/2 and I don't hit the roof ever, I do smack my head on the rear hatch corner edge though, my nbs used to go up higher or the corners weren't bent down so much

 

[Bucky1]

It's 41.1 inches and I recently saw a drawing but cannot remember where. The seat can often go lower if it is more level. I'm 5'8" and can wear my Sam Houston hat without hitting the headliner.

I'm at 36". This does have the sunroof which subtracts. I dunno if cooled seats affect it with the ducting.

 

[Doubeleive]

I'm at 36". This does have the sunroof which subtracts. I dunno if cooled seats affect it with the ducting.

I also have the sunroof and heated/cooled seats, where are you measuring from ?

 

[mcislak]

I was wondering the same thing. I feel so high up in our 2010 compared to my 07


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[kbuskill]

I felt the same way coming from our 2000 Escalade to the 2008 Suburban LTZ... but I finally got the seat adjusted right and got used to it... I just laid the seat back more.

 

[Bucky1]

I also have the sunroof and heated/cooled seats, where are you measuring from ?

Lowest part of seat up to the ceiling, left of the sunroof.

 

[swathdiver]

I'm looking at the 1985 Restoration Kit for the Suburban and it is measuring from the highest point of the seat cushion at a rearward angle in line with the seat back. On that truck, it was 40-1/2 inches.

I saw another where I think it was from the lowest part of the seat angled forward and in line with the steering wheel. Can't recall where yet.

 

[Bucky1]

Sooo....it seems like my measurements are well short on both front seats of these numbers. I have checked to see if the previous owner left a Glock or family pet under the seat.....and there was nothing obstructing. Anything easy to check?

 

[swathdiver]

Try leveling out your seat and then lowering it as far as it will go. My '99 Montana's seat was set low but our 2006s was set high and I had to lower it to clear my gut and to be able to wear my hat inside the car. For some odd reason, after every trip to the dealer the seat was reset back up high again, and no, the mechanic was taller than me. The 2004 is more like the 1999 and the seat is set low. The GMCs seats are 10-way I think and it took a couple weeks to set them right to where they did not hurt my legs and back and cleared my hat. Thank the Lord for the memory feature! Every time my wife drove (and kept pressing #1 to save her settings over mine!) I'd get in and barely get out!

 

[Bucky1]

Try leveling out your seat and then lowering it as far as it will go. My '99 Montana's seat was set low but our 2006s was set high and I had to lower it to clear my gut and to be able to wear my hat inside the car. For some odd reason, after every trip to the dealer the seat was reset back up high again, and no, the mechanic was taller than me. The 2004 is more like the 1999 and the seat is set low. The GMCs seats are 10-way I think and it took a couple weeks to set them right to where they did not hurt my legs and back and cleared my hat. Thank the Lord for the memory feature! Every time my wife drove (and kept pressing #1 to save her settings over mine!) I'd get in and barely get out!

My wife drove mine today too. I went to hop in, and OMG how would a human get into that opening? LOL. I used that opportunity to push front and back down and roll it back. Same ultimate result. Must just be how these sit in 2011 I guess.

 

[sanco]

thats not right, im 6'3" and i have plenty of head room in the 2012. Do you still have all functions of the power seat? front and rear tilt? I know that on some squad cars the seats lost rear lowering function which caused them to sit high. Other than that an obstruction in the mechanism would usually prevent you from going lower. That's really odd!

 

[petethepug]

We hit as high as 6’10 in our family and only have a very close fit to the sunroof. Can’t think of a time when we bottomed out and touched the roof.


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[Bucky1]

thats not right, im 6'3" and i have plenty of head room in the 2012. Do you still have all functions of the power seat? front and rear tilt? I know that on some squad cars the seats lost rear lowering function which caused them to sit high. Other than that an obstruction in the mechanism would usually prevent you from going lower. That's really odd!

Up, down, back and forward was well as lumbar all work on driver's seat. Both seats stop at what seems like the same place. I wonder if shorties owned it previously and the screw is gummed up where it wasn't used. Only thing I can think of. The 6'8" employee of mine was just plain uncomfortable when we went to lunch. Wonder if 11 is different than 12 seating wise.

 

[swathdiver]

You in Florida Ben?

 

[Bucky1]

You in Florida Ben?

Illinois