Seat height issue

[housertl]

I took a closer look at the thing while I was trying to re-install the back seat (need two more bolts), and it looks like the PO took the stock rails out, and installed the power mechanism in their place. The adjustability is great, but the power mechanism is about 3 inches tall, which makes the car hard to get into, I smack my head on the door when I try to check the drivers side blind spot, etc. I can deal with manually adjusted seating.

On a side note, what is directly underneath the rear seats, if you were to, say, drill a hole through the floor to mount a rear bucket seat?

[Ldub]

On a side note, what is directly underneath the rear seats, if you were to, say, drill a hole through the floor to mount a rear bucket seat?

Take a look at the contours of the rear deck & where it drops down into the cockpit...poke a dowel, or a long golf tee, or a pipe cleaner wrapped in a few layers of tape through the holes where the upper rear seat mounts were attached to the floor.
Use them, & the contour of the floor pan, as references to where you think your new mounting points might be.
Then just crawl on under & see what might be lurking under there...

I bridged the two holes I just mentioned with a 1 x 4" & built my tool box up from there. I would think the same method, using something more metallic & substantial, would be a starting point where the safety of passengers was a concern.

[VX KAT]

shoot....I just read more of that first one link I posted...

no rails...

I took a closer look at the thing while I was trying to re-install the back seat (need two more bolts), and it looks like the PO took the stock rails out, and installed the power mechanism in their place.

I'd bet you could get the OEM rails at a salvage yard pretty easily....use that spreadsheet I put together with those 60 or so junkyards that have a VX. Even when they're all picked over, those seat rails are likely to still be in the carcass.