Hi,
My family's car is a Fiat Doblo (year 2008). Everything about the car is Ok except the height from the floor to the top inside the car is too short. The height is only 125cm while the height from the ground to my head top when I seat on the wheelchair is 140cm. I cannot move into the car with my wheelchair. When I need to go to somewhere far, my dad must bring me into the car's middle seats. My disability is severe, so this job is very complicated and hard, sometimes it is not safe.
I am looking a way to resolve my problem above. By chance, I see on youtube there are adapted Fiat Doblo cars which have a height long enough. There are 2 types of adapting:
1. Making the floor lower as in this site wheelchaircars.co.uk.
2. Making the top higher as the car in this video
https://youtu.be/HjRN19fO-fgThe solution #1 seems more convenient with my disability because the lower floor will help me move into the car easier. But I see it is too complicated in technical and needs professional teams who are very skilled in car modification. Unfortunately, these teams do not exist in my country (Vietnam).
So, I only has the solution #2 "making the top higher". I do not have any experience in adapted cars. So, I strongly need the helps and advices from everybody in the forum. First, I'd like to know:
- Is the car in the video
https://youtu.be/HjRN19fO-fg original or was it modified to have a very high top?
- If it is original, so please tell me its model.
- If it was modified, so please show me some sites of companies which specializes in car modification. Is it possible if I would order their accessories and then I would ask a car repairman in my city help me to modify the car.
Thanks in advance. Any replies or advices are very appreciated.