Re: Tilting driver's seat (archive)

In followup to my previous note, thanks for the responses. I didn't realize BMW corporate folks are tracking this discussion group, but I have received two helpful notes from people within the BMW organization, one here in the chat room, and the other by direct email. Very gratifying.

I'll let the group know how this turns out.

Otherwise, I'm still enjoying the X5.

I've had my 4.4l X5 for about 6 weeks, and have been generally quite satisfied. But I have gradually become aware of an anomoly in my vehicle, and I'm wondering if others have noticed this.

The driver's seat slopes about half an inch toward the left. I know it doesn't sound like much, but after awhile, my left cheek gets a bit tired.

Both the seatback and the seat bottom seem to be tilted the same amount. I looked under the seat, but didn't find any obvious problems with the structure of the seat or the way it's mounted.

I made a slight, temporary improvement by stuffing some extra foam padding under the left side of the seat. But this doesn't totally fix the problem.

I'm wondering if this is just a single bad seat that was installed in my vehicle, or whether others have noticed this.

The passenger's seat is fine.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts or observations.

I have a 4.4 and my seat is dead level.
Serge

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