Grab Bar / Oh Shit Handle for Drivers Side ?

[Overdraft]

I have a 2023 Hybrid XL and there is no handle on the drivers side. I do not have any butt cheeks (Thanks Dad) and at 5' 11.5" I have to use the center console to "situate" myself which is less than ideal as I am a portly. Any ideas or solutions? I do not want to use one of those door jam things as it would just add something to deal with. I'd like an in-car solution somewhere.

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[Traegorn]

Well now I'm just trying to remember how I get in and out of my truck - because suddenly I'm going completely blank on how I do it.

 

[Overdraft]

Well now I'm just trying to remember how I get in and out of my truck - because suddenly I'm going completely blank on how I do it.

Good luck with that. Not possible, I can't even remember.

 

[DuffCon]

lol because that's what we call it in my family too.

 

[FischAutoTechGarten]

70s and 80s imported economy cars always had interiors that could accept components on both sides as the cars were sold with as few modifications as possible for rh/lh drive markets. My very first car.. a 77 Honda Civic CVCC.... I remember pulling those bars off of the passenger side of a car in a junkyard so that I could install it on the drivers side (which of course would have been the passenger side in Japan)... Handle was completely symmetric... so it didn't matter the orientation..

I didn't install it to lift me up into the seat.... but rather to pull me out of the seat.... (tiny little car, my friends dubbed it the pregnant rollerskate)

 

[JBryant]

70s and 80s imported economy cars always had interiors that could accept components on both sides as the cars were sold with as few modifications as possible for rh/lh drive markets. My very first car.. a 77 Honda Civic CVCC.... I remember pulling those bars off of the passenger side of a car in a junkyard so that I could install it on the drivers side (which of course would have been the passenger side in Japan)... Handle was completely symmetric... so it didn't matter the orientation..

I didn't install it to lift me up into the seat.... but rather to pull me out of the seat.... (tiny little car, my friends dubbed it the pregnant rollerskate)

Been years since I had that term. A lot of people used it when a lot of the imports started coming to USA. I remember the Datsun 210 was one of them.

 

[AltoMavDad]

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