01-26-2022, 10:41 AM | #45 | |
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The standard x3 seat feels great to me. I am not sure if the M seat (non sport seat) will work for me. I have to sell the car at this point because I cant get comfortable and am not willing to sit on a pad for the rest of the ownership. I'd like to get an x3m non comp (to avoid the sports sears) but am still worried about what those will feel like. |
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05-08-2022, 12:53 AM | #46 |
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Update: Great news for my particular backside and non-comfort situation.
I have now driven 3,000 miles on a sheep skin cover on my driver's seat. It has made the total difference to my backside being cushioned; it also served to elevate pressure softly up and away from being directly on the harder seat bottom. Love the car and appreciate the forum advice of trying out the sheep skin! It only cost $200 which is way cheaper (and much, much better) than having to give up the 330i. My physical therapist also adjusted my seating position to be more upright and shifted my right knee position for the offset pedals! Sheepskin is by Overland and easy to order on line. Hope this info helps someone! |
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05-08-2022, 09:37 PM | #47 | |
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06-28-2022, 10:19 PM | #48 |
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Sooooo.... reporting back in after a year in the M40i... my seats by the way are the Vernasca non-ventilated... I've noticed them bothering/hurting a smidge more these days. So I've started playing around with the seat position quite a bit. Like others have pointed out, it's the bottom seat/cushion that's the issue for me. Firm, bolsters are too narrow, and seat itself is positioned a bit weird so as my right leg feels slightly "offset"... all this in turn puts a weird pressure on my right hip (and sometimes the leg itself). Now then, it doesn't help that I've just started getting early onset arthritis in my right hip from an injury about 20 years ago... but still, I know it's the seating position because I can adjust it, and the "discomfort" goes away for a bit... then slowly returns. Having said all this, it's still only at mabye a 2 or 3 inconvenience at this point... mainly because 90% of the time, my trips are less than 30 minutes... so not a big deal. Still, it's concerning to me that the issue seems to SLOWLY be getting worse, not better. Guess I'll keep playing with the position and see if I can find a sweet spot.
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06-29-2022, 12:17 AM | #49 |
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Senatec seats are more comfortable and better bolstered then the Vernesca leather seats. This I compared when I had a loaner. My 19' wouldn't come fitted with ambient lighting unless the Vernasca leather seat option was added.
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06-29-2022, 06:22 AM | #50 | |
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Regardless- so long as I'm not getting butt or backaches after driving, it prob won't matter in the long run. We never take the X4 on long trips (that's what the LR is for). What's really funny though? We took the Audi TTS on a road trip and those seats were also near perfect. Not an ounce of fatigue on a 4 hour road trip. |
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01-03-2023, 04:59 AM | #52 | |
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01-03-2023, 10:05 AM | #53 |
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I've found the seats in my 2019 X3 M40i are the worst seats I've had in a BMW. And I've driven BMWs since the mid-80s, so I know their seats. This is the first BMW where my back & butt hurt after an hour or so of driving. And it was consistent (I make a 1.5 hour hwy drive twice a week)--every time.
I ended up buying a seat cushion, which has made it tolerable, but it's a wonky kludge. I've owned 3, 5, X5, and now an X3, over 35+ years. All new, almost all with sports package and do-everything every-which-way premium seats. And obviously I loved them, as I keep coming back (probably 15 BMWs over this time frame, between wife & I). But between this, and the ubiquitous lack of road feel (gone downhill since 2000s), it will be my last. My wife, also a BMW driver, but only since 2000, recently traded her X5 for a Cayenne. Holy Moly, is that a car! Road feel like the BMWs of the 1980s/1990s, and a great seat.
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