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noflash · #5 (**permalink**) 11-09-2006, 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by mr_132

I found the whole HCH06 seat experience the worst I’d ever sat it. Be it the headrest, or the pinching bucket seats or the lumbar (or total lack of). I was okay for the first month and then as the seat wore in, I found my back would be killing me even on short journeys. I was seriously thinking of trading it in for anything else as I was in that much pain every time I drove. I then got a lower lumbar support pillow, and while I could walk after a car journey, I wouldn’t call it nice/comfortable.

Just for the record here, I am 6ft2, 230lbs, large build (36" waist). yes I could do with losing 15-20lbs but I'm not what I'd call odd shaped. I fit in other cars perfectly well and as I travel a lot, I use a lot of rentals with none of these back problems.

In the end, I took it to an upholsterer. He added 1” of foam to the middle of the seat all the way up on the drivers’ side seat. He said he couldn’t do this on the passengers’ side for some reason… I forget. Anyway, seat is now night and day to what it was. It’s as comfortable as my wifes ford (you can sit in it okay for a couple of hours, but you wouldn’t say it feels luxury) and bringing me slightly forward in the seat makes the headrest also comfortable (and still offers some whiplash protection compared to removing the headrest or turning it the other way). Before anyone says, it doesn’t interfere with the airbag system apart from the weight of 1” of foam (you wouldn’t know I’d had it done to the car unless you were looking for it).

Hope this is of some use

I too have added foam to the seatback to take out the convcaveness of the seat.