teabag
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- 2001 W163 ML270 CDI
Half time report.
Raising the seat and bringing the steering wheel closer has alleviated the pain in my shoulder but has started putting pressure on one of the sore points on my back (one of the vertebrae) - seems the seats are too hard. :-(
I'm going to have to find a car with squidgier seats. Do e classes or s classes have seats as soft as say a BMW e38 7 series?
I can't comment on the 7 series seats as I have never driven one, however, I have longstanding spinal problems both lumbar and cervical and only last week I drove my W220 S class with standard seats non stop from Sunderland to Weymouth (363 miles) in six and a half hours.
I stayed in Weymouth for a 2 hour meeting and then filled up with fuel for the return journey which was completed in 7 hours with one stop for coffee and a bite to eat after 200 miles.
I arrived home at 8-20pm feeling tired after a very long day, but my back felt as good as good as it did when I started the journey at 4-30am.
The seats and steering column on the W220 have such a massive and almost infinite range of adjustment to make me believe anyone of fairly normal height and stature will be able to find a comfortable and supportive driving position after a few days experimentation.
I am 56 years old, six feet tall and weigh 15 stones so I am probably just on the larger side of average, but I believe spinal fusion in both lumbar and cervical vertabrae makes me a difficult challenge for any car seat, however the S class shrugged of this challenge with ease.