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Originally Posted by Jusplainwacky
Mine is a 2016.
The only time I turn my seat around is when I have the slide-out out.
As someone mentioned, I could always move the pedestal back as it's not that far off. I'm just not sure it's worth my time as I'm not that thrilled with them as it is. My Jeep and my Silverado offer more control than the ones in the coach. One would think that Thor would put some quality when it comes to seats as most people aren't just commuting to work in their coach. It's important to have quality seats when traveling.
What boggles my mind, is that you can't even raise/lower the seat...what's up with that?? When you buy a Thor, do you have to stand against a ruler with a sign that says, "To ride this you must be this tall"
It's pretty much a given that things can be mounted differently depending on who was working that day...so this really doesn't surprise me.
Getting back to seats...I may now have to go look at different SUVs/Trucks and see what kind of seats they have...and then perhaps hit some salvage yards, or like I said, contact some RV salvage yards, but I hear that seats are one of the first things people want.
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I am a SOB, so I going to avoid your frustrating points because they are opinions which I can respect.
It was 2019 last I was in Hurricane/Windsport 29M and/or 27B
If my slide is out, it is easy spin. I frequently turn my driver chair around with slide in, because in a lot of cases we do not put the slide out. Generally we only need the slide out in the mornings or if we have 4 or more people in the coach.
I think I was the one to suggest to offset by 1"; but if your slide is open, I am really perplexed that you can't spin it around. If there other things about the chair so be it, I am not a Thor Chair Buyer or Chair Salesman. I am just fascinated with the fact that you are not able to spin your chair around. Since slide is opened, I questioned if when you have your chair at the far back position, that it really is as far back as it suppose to go? Maybe a defective chair?
Ironically the adjustment forward and backward is for height adjustments. Tall people set it as far back as possible, short people bring it forward as close as possible.
All of them, including my SOB will not spin around 180 if it is too close to steering wheel, I just slide back, lift the rotate lever, spin and then slide forward again to get closer to the TV.
If I had a complaint it would be to have both chairs recline with footrest.
From what you describe, I still can't see how any chair from a car/suv/truck will make your situation better? I would love to see pictures of what you do. But then again you have 6 year old coach and you just may want a new chair period for a lot of other reason and this no spin with ease is clearly a frustration I can understand.
Above is picture of my setup, if you look close the driver chair is pulled almost as forward as it can go. I drive fast and it is more comfortable to hold the petal to metal so to speak when you can't use cruise. I may take a picture of my chair spun around with slide in to show you what it looks like.
In the meantime, If you find a better chair other than from the companies you provided in the link; let me know. But I am pretty sure if I ever have to buy a chair out of pocket it will recline and have footrest.
Update: I went outside, spun chair around and took a few measurements. The outermost left edge of my pedestal is 20" from driver side wall and the front edge of the same pedestal is 6" from a perpendicular plane with the outer most lower edge of the steering wheel.
I should note this is my most common position to eat in RV and watch TV. Slide out is a bonus but not necessary. If that seat recline with footrest, I would be in business. My coach is 2019 so the leather and the quality of seat far exceeds my expectations, because to be honest, from what I had heard mostly on this site, I thought these chairs would have been shot within 2 years. We have 23,000 miles.
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