I've had my car almost a year now and I'm still monkeying with the seating position. The seats look nice but they aren't comfortable. I think for me the bottom of the back angles in too much, and the lumbar is too high up.
My issues is both my butt cheeks/tailbone hurt after awhile due to the hard seat and poor position. Like you I was messing with the seat position for the longest time. Got fed up and bought a nice seat cushion on Amazon for longer drives. Life saver and saves my butt literally.
Just got this exact one from Amazon today. I've been annoyed by the lumbar support pressing into my back, even with it totally deflated. Also, the seat bottom and seat back feels like it has a gap because of the protruding lumbar support. I have a displaced/degenerated L5/S1 disc, so it's been disappointing that these premium leather seats just can't ever seem to feel right. I'm constantly adjusting myself when I sit.Bought this at Bed Bath & Beyond. Lower back problems fixed and it doesn't look half bad.
It's called a "backjoy" something or other.
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For sure to keep us posted. I just ordered another seat wedge cushion for me. The issue I have is my hips, basically feels like I am sitting on my hip bones after few minutes of driving. When I drive our Honda Pilot its comfy as hell, so it has to be a posture thing with these seats.
So this mornings first impression was mixed. It took me a bit to adjust the piece into a position that was most comfortable. Depending on the angle, I felt the padding under my thighs in an annoying way. I slid the unit back further on the bottom, which then in turn raised it a bit higher on the seat back. I found this to reduce the feeling of the pads under my thighs and increased the comfort. I need a few days driving with this to make a final decision about keeping it. I have a road trip to Atlanta on Friday morning which will be a little under 4 hours. This should be more than enough time to determine if it's a keeper.
After reading multiple posts here on lumbar, I realized something. When I sit in the passenger seat it feels entirely different than the driver's seat, why? I would often feel that the lumbar in the driver' seat was "inflated" even when it was fully retracted. So I took the seat fabric off the back and disconnected the "throttle cable" in the lumbar and it fully retracted it and big difference! I've effectively removed what was poking in my back this whole time. This means the lumbar is not operational now. Getting into the back of the seat is a breeze, I worked from the back seat upside down and removed two electrical connectors and then the elastic bands holding the back fabric. With that away a trim pry tool will get two plastic push pins out then the back flap opens right up. Lifting up the flap and looking for the plastic pin that is seated in the metal hoop (see picture). With needle nose pliers, I squeezed the tabs together and pushed it out of the hoop. Once you release this, it releases the tension and you can see the sides of the lumbar retract. I connected the motor again (will it pop a code if disconnected?) and will disconnect the lumbar switch itself. Check it out.
HUGE difference!