Has anyone replaced their XLT driver's seat?

[MikeVB]

Apparently the designers used a 13 year old boy as the ass model to design the seats in the Ranger. I'm a normal size guy of average dimensions, and I cannot imagine how anyone finds these seats tolerable more than a few minutes.

Aside from all the inexpensive seat cushions or stuffing inside the seat...has anyone gone so far as to just install a different, actually comfortable seat?

I ride around in my work F150 XL daydreaming that my new Ranger's seat felt half as comfortable.

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[Reddog99]

Everyone's ass is different. I made a west coast to east coast (and back) drive last summer and have no complaints about the seat comfort. As with any long drive, I needed to periodically adjust the position just for a change, but never any real discomfort.

 

[MikeVB]

Everyone's ass is different. I made a west coast to east coast (and back) drive last summer and have no complaints about the seat comfort. As with any long drive, I needed to periodically adjust the position just for a change, but never any real discomfort.

I appreciate ass diversity, but there are a lot of complaints here and other places online regarding how uncomfortable the seats can be, especially the XLT seats.

 

[Ron Quixote]

I find pretty much all seats comfortable now that I lift regularly. Didn’t used to feel that way.

 

[superj]

Xlt seats are different then xl seats?

I have done 16-18 hour drives in my xl and been fine. My wife didnt complain either.

I am 5'8" and 220

 

[hand-filer]

I'm a normal size guy of average dimensions, and I cannot imagine how anyone finds these seats tolerable more than a few minutes.

You say the seat is tolerable only for a few minutes. Did you test drive the truck before you bought it?

 

[MikeVB]

You say the seat are tolerable only for a few minutes. Did you test drive the truck before you bought it?

I didn't know I was allowed to do that.

 

[mrmike7189]

I agree that the seat could and should be larger than the average sized 13 y.o. boy size.
I have reclined mine to a ridiculous angle so I feel comfortable. I'm 5'.8, 180 lbs and thin.
A fatter person would be in misery I'd imagine.

 

[MikeVB]

I agree that the seat could and should be larger than the average sized 13 y.o. boy size.
I have reclined mine to a ridiculous angle so I feel comfortable. I'm 5'.8, 180 lbs and thin.
A fatter person would be in misery I'd imagine.

I'm 5'11" and 195. I've got a 60yo man belly, but my ass and hips are certainly not wide nor fat. Hell, I barely have an ass anymore, but it's big enough to detect the large hole in the bottom cushion down near the seat back. But it's the narrow and high bolsters that aggravate my hips. Like sitting in a kid's mini go-cart seat.

I grew up driving trucks with bench seats and continued onward my entire adult life in trucks with 60/40 seats until the last year everything's gone to bucket seats and closed-in feeling cockpits.

 

[jedadiah]

I find my XLT seats comfy and have driven longish trips in them. Are yours manual or power? I wonder if that makes a difference. Mine are the power ones. I've seen a few posts on here about seats with defective foam. I wonder if yours are that way.

 

[ChronciallyChronic]

I have to wonder, reading this thread and others, with people bitching and whining about this feature of their XLT or that feature of their XL and how do I replace it with something from the Lariat, why did you buy your truck?

Did you people bother test driving your truck before you bought it? And when I say test drive, more than 5 minutes coasting around the block. If you found something, like oh I dunno a driver seat you cannot tolerate, why did you buy the damn thing in the first place? If you liked the Lariat features....and still bought an XL or XLT...why?

I know this is an open forum for Ranger owners but....really guys?

Ok, let the responses telling me I am a moron begin!

 

[ATestBishop]

Taking away any test situations long or short, there's validity in the basic idea that TRAINED DESIGNERS should factor in all historical data and testing to make new improvements in weight, strength, durability, performance, comfort, adaptability, ect. That said I find the XT seats to be good but I can say the non adjustable headrest is a total failure and the driver's seat lacking a back pocket is absolutely absurd. Bottom line is even if we can agree there is no such thing as a "perfect" seat, I think we can agree Ford needs to continue design refinement using the best methodology for the application.

 

[ATestBishop]

Think about the specific design teams at Ford who are directed and dedicated to strategically remove features or cheapen anything possible, that if accurate in any way just sounds like backwards thinking from an end users prospective. I do vaguely understand certain constraints in theory regarding design, production, tiered materials, compatibility,regulation and predicted lifespan...it's certainly an interesting subject to be sure

 

[danmoochie]

ergonomics my friend. All based on the law of averages. Average male today is still 5 ft 8-9 inches and under 200 lbs. Vehicles are all designed and engineer to those spec pretty much. I fall within and find the vehicle fits me like a glove. No complaints!

 

[Maybe]

The Seat sucks. I would love to find a Bronco seat and swap it in. Or even a Mustang seat. I may try my hand at fixing it this summer though. I was gonna either remove the side bolster foam near the back of the seat and then just put the cover back on and try and pull it tight and since it down or maybe redo the whole shape and see if a shop can closely match the seat cover fabric and redo it.

I’ve driven cross country too and up the east coast and it’s not great on long trips for sure.

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