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Originally Posted by bimmerpwr
That sucks...thanks for info.
I like my current seat because whenever I get it, lumber support squeezes me in place and whenver I turn off the car, lumber support lets me go, found it pretty cool. I just wish there is a way to push the headrest forward a bit...
From my experience, I found E39M5 sport seat being very comfortable. But as far as comfortable seats go, Audi A8 has it nailed down. Even the seatbelt height was adjustable electronically. X5 comfort seat, although it's cool with lumber support, I wouldn't rate it highly.
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I liked the backrest bolsters squeezing too but that to me is/was a distant second behind the upper back adjustability. I never found the non reachability of headrest w/my head to be an issue. Other than in a Volvo I don't think I've seen that in any other car, including my E39 sport. It's the upper back support, or lack there of in the X5 sport seats, that is a huge problem for me. In the comfort seats the upper back is independently adjustable and I was able to set it perfectly to match my back so it felt supported along it's full length. Basically feeling like a full seat I can rest my entire back on. Unlike w/the sport seats where I feel like sitting on a stool w/a short back, and the upper just dangles there unless I bend it way back, which is unnatural and uncomfortable. The headrest however w/its three positions comes out pretty far forward though and I can set it to touch the back of my head during normal driving. The problem is there is a space between the upper back and the back rest good 1/3 rd of a way down below the headrest. This in turn is very uncomfortable as well.
The best I was able to do, was to lower the headrest all the way or almost all the way down, set it to it's middle positon front to back, and then in a very poor way its bottom supports the top of my upper back (shoulder area) in the least uncomfortable way. If it's in the most forward postion it pushes my shoulders even further forward and cuts into them w/the bottom edge. If its in the least forward position then its even w/the backrest and just doesn't come forward enough to do anything.
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