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Very Dumb Question -- my apologies in advance! Sorry to be so clueless.

I have an '03 Tacoma, full bed, one bench seat. Bad choice -- because my
wife had never driven any truck, and the dealer was on a busy main
highway; so I did the only test drive, and just didn't think.

Trouble is, first, that I'm a good foot taller than she is; second and
worse, most of my height is in my legs -- and hers is in her torso.

You guessed it. When we finally got around to her trying to learn (after
many long distractions), it turned out that with me in the truck, she
can't *get* the seat far enough forward to reach the pedals -- not even if
I'm sideways and in the OSHA Atomic Attack position (i.e., fetal position).

I'm advised, by people who don't want the job, that I can get good used
bucket seats from a junkyard, and swap them out myself -- all the easier
because neither of us cares what color, nor even whether they match.

Wrong -- on two counts : that advice assumes I'm able-bodied (not never no
more, alas!), and know straight up about motor vehicles. (I never have; I
can just about tell a pickup from a sedan from a semi, and that's the end
of my auto lore).

Junkyards don't install; guys that install don't even call junkyards,
at least around here. But I would have no faintest notion, buying two
bucket seats, whether either one would fit at all, nor on which side.

If I can get a pair of the right seats, I can take them to a shop, or
maybe find a handyman. But how do I know what to get?? Is there some magic
part number somewhere, or something?? Anything I need to watch out for?

I have no idea, btw, whether there is any way to tell the model year of a
Toyota truck (or the remains of one) in a junkyard, much less what range
of models might have interchangeable seats -- and this is the only place
I've found to ask.

Oh, and the obvious solution isn't much better : there's no telling
whether the local mega-dealer's phone system is worse than their web page,
or the other way around -- maybe both. Is there any better way than just
driving there (It's in another town.), asking around, and paying whatever
they demand?? <choke, gasp, ...>

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