Many thanks for taking the time to take and post your pictures, I'm taking them out to the garage now to make some direct comparisons. Watch this space!
I'm near Oldham and yes that's probably a good idea as I'm sure there must be someone within 50 miles or so that I could pop round to although it'll be a week or two until I can do that as I've just had shoulder surgery and can't ride again yet.
Check the mount at the front of the rider's seat is fitted properly. I picked my bike up and the dealers had the seat in the low position; didn't like it even though I'm not he tallest at about 5'8". Swapped out for tall setting but had the front mount fitted incorrectly - could have the back end of the main seat sitting wrong...
This gives an idea of the gap between the seats and I haven't got skinny fingers! When you change from high to low setting the front support is removed, I did try fitting just the front support to see if kicking the front up a bit would allow the back half to fit lower but the seat wouldn't go on at all.
Y'see. Memory span of a goldfish... especially with a few glasses of red involved! On the high position as I said but I'll have a look this evening at the 'filler' for the rear seat.
Thanks for that, all the help I've received is much appreciated. I know it may seem as if I'm being fussy but I can just imagine how much water and crud is going to find its way through the gaps into all those lovely little electronic thingymebobs!
It doesn't seem right to me. I'm sure you are missing something, or have e apart on there you shouldn't. I've swapped mine from high to low several times and although I have the Comfort seat (Touratch Ducati supplied) there is no gap on mine in the low position.
Do you have a bag of tools in the tool compartment under the pillion seat? There is a protuberance on the underside of the pillion seat which goes far down into the compartment in the installed position. This leaves surprisingly little space for tools (and far less on the DVT than on the 2010-14 Multistrada). If the tools are in the way, they can stop the pillion seat from locating properly. If your problem remains the same even with the tools absent, then obviously that is not it.
Mine is not a whole lot better in the lower position, although the pillion spacer bumpers do make contact on the back of the seat. I believe the main seats are all coming out different in the manufacturing process, mine can never follow the shape of the side cowl, it's just not the same. If your seat is contacting the pads on the frame then I guess that's as good as it gets
Anyone else had a recall on the seats. Had mine done last year along with a engine sensor, seized exhaust and pixy dust top-up. What Ducs run on....it's true!
Had seat recall on my 2015. They said it was because stitching on old on came loose. I switched to touratech seat running in low position.
