My mother is 81 and is 8 inches shorter than in her younger years. She couldn't see over the hood of her 2017 Subaru Outback so I did some research on devices to lift her front seat. I spent about 30 hours fabricating round solid steel spacers and another 10 hours trying to install them. No matter what I did, I couldn't get the bolts through the spacers to line up with the threaded holes in the unibody. I broke down and contacted Desert Does It. Deric and I talked a couple times and after a few e-mails, he set me up with CNC machined spacers his company makes. I put them in on the front mounts of the driver's seat. Took me a couple hours. Mom loved the raised seat height. but needed a bit more so I contacted Deric again. He set me up with spacers for the rear mounts of the front seat. Took me about four hours because I had to take out the bolts for the front mounts and start from scratch. Lining up all four seat mounting bolts was a challenge because the unibody mounting points are at an angle, not vertical or horizontal. I finally did it by putting steel rods through the holes, then into the threaded holes in the unibody. I took one rod out at a time and replaced it with a bolt. Desert Does It supplies new longer bolts which are necessary because they must go through their spacers, then into the unibody. I did it to my satisfaction, after having my mother test fit herself in the new driving position which was satisfactory. Once we were both satisfied, I replaced the rods with the bolts. Loctite blue is included with the kit. Make sure everything lines up before applying Loctite.
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