ripto
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As some of you may have seen I have an issue with the comfort of these GT Premium seats to the point where I want to get rid of the car. My last resort was going into the seat and removing the lumbar support since it felt like on the most deflated (although these don't use air) setting, it was still too noticeable. Using a thread on here of someone who replaced their seat covers, and a youtube video from CJ Pony of replacing seat covers, I was able to do this myself relatively easily, although neither of those instructions were of the GT Premium seat so I knew it was going to be slightly different electrically and once I got inside the seat with the heating and cooling components.
I took the seat out of the car, separated the seat bottom from the seat back, and peeled off the seat cover from the seat back and found the lumbar mechanism. It is sadly basically a throttle cable attached to the vertical support frame of the seat, secured on one end with a hook and on the other end to a cone shape piece secured by a metal loop so it cannot move forward. The attachment points are more forward of the cable, so when the lumbar adjustment is set to extend, the motor pulls the cable forward to be even with the attachment points. With the lumbar setting completely disengaged, there was still a lot of tension on this cable so when you sat in the seat, you still felt this cable running along your back. I ended up removing the cone shaped piece from the metal loop to release the tension. I didn't unhook the motor from it, so you can still use the lumbar buttons and you can hear the motor, but since there's so much slack now, it doesn't tighten to the point where you can even feel it, so it is effectively not there anymore.
This may have helped slightly in not sitting against a bulge anymore, but I am still disappointed in the materials for these seats. They are WAY too soft and plush. I am still not happy with how much I sink into the seat and as stupid as this sounds, when I sink in, it causes my belt to dig into my lower back to the point where it is really uncomfortable. I am still thinking of getting rid of this car, except nothing out there is the least bit attractive, so I have no idea what to do. All I know is winter is coming and this car will be impossible to sell and I'll have to sink $2k into it for winter tires and wheels just to survive to the spring to sell it.
Also for whatever reason, the seat bottom cover has too much material on it to properly mount without wrinkles on the left side of it. Makes no sense.
I took the seat out of the car, separated the seat bottom from the seat back, and peeled off the seat cover from the seat back and found the lumbar mechanism. It is sadly basically a throttle cable attached to the vertical support frame of the seat, secured on one end with a hook and on the other end to a cone shape piece secured by a metal loop so it cannot move forward. The attachment points are more forward of the cable, so when the lumbar adjustment is set to extend, the motor pulls the cable forward to be even with the attachment points. With the lumbar setting completely disengaged, there was still a lot of tension on this cable so when you sat in the seat, you still felt this cable running along your back. I ended up removing the cone shaped piece from the metal loop to release the tension. I didn't unhook the motor from it, so you can still use the lumbar buttons and you can hear the motor, but since there's so much slack now, it doesn't tighten to the point where you can even feel it, so it is effectively not there anymore.
This may have helped slightly in not sitting against a bulge anymore, but I am still disappointed in the materials for these seats. They are WAY too soft and plush. I am still not happy with how much I sink into the seat and as stupid as this sounds, when I sink in, it causes my belt to dig into my lower back to the point where it is really uncomfortable. I am still thinking of getting rid of this car, except nothing out there is the least bit attractive, so I have no idea what to do. All I know is winter is coming and this car will be impossible to sell and I'll have to sink $2k into it for winter tires and wheels just to survive to the spring to sell it.
Also for whatever reason, the seat bottom cover has too much material on it to properly mount without wrinkles on the left side of it. Makes no sense.
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