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Akos

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  1. Then how do you explain cracks on the middle? No seats in fron of it and the middle headrests can be pulled out much less then the other two (left, right).
  2. My wife went back to our local official Skoda(Porche Szeged) dealer and behold the first and only Rapid there had the same problem!:) https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gh9hobpxnp6pag6/AACQAresSEPIyJWCZY_dtPfwa?dl=0 MFD: 2015.03. Any of you have similar issues? Also I am in contact with the factory will keep you posted!
  3. I have to disagree with you. They are designed to take excessive force, they are there to protect passengers from whiplash injury (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiplash_(medicine). Let say a 100kg passenger sits on the back and there is a crash the headrests will simply collapse during the force of the impact causeing the passanger death or spinal cord injury. My kids are 20kg each, so doubt that they cant tear it off if they can then there is a manufacturing defect right there. Also see skoda manual http://ws.skoda-auto.com/OwnersManualService/Data/en/Rapid_Spaceback_NH/11-2014/Manual/Rapid/A05_Spaceback_OwnersManual.pdf page 70 and i quote" WARNING With seats occupied, the respective head rests must be correctly set (may not be in the bottom position) - there is a risk of fatal injury!" So this is a very important safety part of the car that is why I am so uptight about this.
  4. Hi all. I wouldlike to bring your attention to a possible design deffect of a Skoda Rapid Spaceback's back headrests. We own such a car and one of the back headrest broke off and the other two have cracks on them. I tried to reach Skoda regarding this matter but they are telling me that it is a user fault that the headrest broke off. This is quite unheard of! Ive owned couple of cars but this is the first time such thing happend. Not to mention that the car is my wife's car (she is using it) and they are telling us that she tore it off!? you can find pictures of the headrests over here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kc543q5efdohki2/AAAXgHysj00jz7vhBIB951Aja?dl=0 From the look of it, it seems that the whole headrest is made of plastic mold and there is a small steel rod that holds into the plastic and that is where the plastic starts to crack! We have this problem on all the three headrests! Anyone have noticed similar cracks? I do not really know where to turn to, especially that our Skoda came with a 4 year Porche Hungary warranty and they are refusing it to accept this as a manufacturing defect. Any idea?
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