04-28-2015, 07:12 AM | #23 |
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I don't think you're supposed to be able to stretch your leg straight out and rest it entirely on the dead pedal. I either rotate on the ball of my heel from the clutch to the dead pedal or move my foot an inch or two towards the dead pedal.. but never have my 100% of my foot on the dead pedal.
It's quicker to rotate on the bottom of your foot to the clutch rather than it is to pick up and move your entire leg from the dead pedal to the clutch.. |
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04-28-2015, 07:25 AM | #24 |
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Yeah... If you had AT like I do, you would try to rest your entire foot on the dead pedal. Of course not for all the time - changing position is vital for your blood flow
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And to think one (not the most important of course) of the reasons I never loved my F10 was I felt somewhat too small for it, haha. But this can be fixed I hope (to some extent at least) - a silly thing like this is not going to spoil the pleasure I otherwise have driving this wonderful car. Even with this minor annoyance, I'm in love with my M235i - it so different from the 300-hp R, but has one thing in common with it: it truly is a driver's car! Only the driver should at least be some 6 feet high PS. Rather than fool with my seat's rails, I'm wondering if having a special (more offset to the right) dead pedal made for me would be a better idea...
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What if we gave the dead pedal a slight angle toward the center of the car? I might try a temporary angle out of a thin, stiff material on my next trip to see if that helps. If it works I guess I could recover the pedal and add some material under the left side to lift it a few millimeters.
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04-28-2015, 08:32 AM | #28 |
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Interesting. I had an X1 and one of my take away memories (besides it being great to drive) was that my left thigh climbed up the left seat bolster. I found it unfortunate but not painful. I wonder if BMW engineers worked the same compromise on the X1?
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04-28-2015, 08:34 AM | #29 |
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Just dived again into the space between the driver's seat and the dead pedal - and yes, definitely the solution to the problem (for me, and for all those with rather short legs out there ) is some modification to the pedal mounting: it should be moved to the right and backwards by an inch or so.
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I must admit that the number of seat adjustments and resulting combinations seem rather daunting at first, but after spending some with it, I put the settings in memory and then rarely fiddle with the seat adjustments again.
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I didn't do too bad with the M235 though. I've had it for a month and I THINK I've figured out the best position for me.. |
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I am hoping its different when I pick up my M235i in about a months time otherwise long road trips are going to be a pain in the 'thigh'
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Funny you mention this. I had a similar problem with my 2012 Volkswagen Jetta, but not my F22...
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05-22-2017, 02:22 AM | #36 |
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Hi moldcad,
I've been having problems with the seat adjustment in my M235, and came across this thread from a few years ago. Have you managed to resolve it? I'm in Australia so I have the opposite problem - it is my right leg which is hurting. Sometimes I even get pins and needles after more than 45mins or so in the car. Similar to you, I drove a Mk6 GTI for the last 5 years, and a Mk5 Golf for 6 years before that, and never had any problems with the seats. I'm hoping to get some hints to resolve my problem - I really enjoy driving the car but the pain in my leg is really detracting from the experience. |
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I'd not seen this thread until Slamau bumped it up, but it perfectly describes my situation.
This car is great for short drives, but on anything much longer than 30-40 mins my left leg is in pain or I'm shifting around the whole time. I want to love this car so much, but this has become a genuine problem for me. On track, another issue is that I'm nice and snug against the center stack but really loose against the driver door. So on left turns, I'm confident and composed but right turns, I'm literally bracing with my left leg and left arm, which is not ideal for longer sprints on the track. Left Hand Drive ZF 8Speed 6'3 ~ 240lbs Any options would be amazing. |
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We have a Mk7 Golf R and M240i (both manual transmissions), I find the M240i has a far better seating position with the seat axis being aligned with the steering wheel. With the Golf R the steering wheel is not aligned with the seat axis, leading to sore shoulders on long trips as your body is twisted with the left arm having to reach further than the right when hands are at the 9-3 position on the steering wheel. Having just completed a 1750km round trip in the M240i this weekend to complete most of it's break-in, the same trip twice in the Golf R in the past left me far more tired than in the BMW.
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Any suggestions on adjusting the seating position to make ingress & egress easier? I have a very narrow parking space, and it's challenging getting in and out without being able to swing the (large) doors all the way open.
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I move my seat back all the way when parked in narrow spots. I find that helps a lot
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And for Slamau, try experimenting with seat tilt and the thigh bolster. That 'pins and needles' thing is really bad over the long run, and a sign you are having too much pressure in a small area. Usually front edge of the seat, but you should be able to tell after sitting there a while where the 'hot spot' is. Not just a comfort issue, it can get into medical problems if you do a lot of driving that way. |
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We've had our 235 vert for more than 1 1/2 years now and are at 20k miles. Never noticed this thread before.
Perhaps the way the seats are mounted on a vert are different because the floor is a slightly different shape on the vert versus the coupe (I assume the floor needs extra bracing to make up for the loss of body rigidity provided by the fixed roof on a coupe?), but on the vert it looks like the seat track IS parallel with the sides of the car. What makes my left thigh end up partially on the bolster is my size (6'3", 260 lbs.) plus the footrest being not as directly in front of the seat as the gas pedal. I've been in the car for many hours several times and have never had an issue with seat comfort, although I do wish the seat bottom had power tilt so I could gain even more thigh support by raising the front of the seat like I can on our X5 (but I knew about this going in and the issue didn't stop us by buying the car, it's one of the few things I wish were different. Seats are such an individual thing. We have the 20 way BMW comfort seats on the X5 and think they are absolutely extraordinary, but yet there was someone on the X5 forum who said he/she was not comfortable in them. I find that shocking, but to each his own. |
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Are you sure that the seat base can't tilt, as it does on our M240i? It isn't the same control I'm used to on older BMWs, though, instead of pushing up on the front of the seat base control (which just causes the seat base to move up), I have to rotate the base control to tilt the base.
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You just substantially changed my opinion on the seats. Wow! Can't believe we did not discover this before now! I have particularly long thighs, so being able to tilt the front of the seat up makes the thigh bolsters much more effective for me. Thank you, thank you, thank you! :-) |
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