Hi guys,

I recently bought a Fabia vRS. Loving everything about it apart from the seats I simply cannot find a comfortable position to sit in. I drove for just over one hour to my parents this evening and had chronic backache by the time I arrived. For a start there is no adjustable lumbar support. However, even without this I feel it provides absolutely no support the base of my back. It also feels like there is a swollen lump in the seat profile halfway up my back which is not present on the passenger seat. Could the driver seat be broken in some way as to make it ridiculously uncomfortable?

I'm planning to remove my seat covers sometime in the near future so may be able to perform some adjustments to the foam padding.

Any help or advice would be appreciated,

Thanks

Yes I noticed the huge gap between the head-rest and the back of my head.

Tilted the head-rest forward as much as it will go to no avail, and still have a good riding position.

In a rear-end shunt my head would travel quite a distance, to & fro.

Only real way my head touches/ nearly touches head-rest (or gets close) is to be sat bolt upright with back rest wound-up keeping me there,

which makes your back quickly ache.

As you have discovered seat will go up/down, forward/back, with the back-rest of seat raised/lowered.

Sadly no lumbar support, suggest place small cushion in small of your back to assist short-fall in lumbar support.

Being about 5ft. 8 inch tall/ short might contribute distance my head is from head-rest??

I have the seat fully raised and the backrest pretty reclined - perfectly comfy then, but, yes, the head restraint is a long way back...

My SE is different in the seat cushion to my 2004vRS though - more of an "edge" on the front

Yep me to cant get comfotable in mine. I am 6ft tall are you guys all the same height? Might be our size that is the problem.

I found that while wearing my work fleece zip jacket I push the front parts of the Jacket back between the lumbar and my sides made a big difference. It reduces the lateral movement and supprts your back.

No problems here except on a long run over 2-3 hours

Hmm, I find mine extremely comfy once I'm in the right position.

Hmm, I find mine extremely comfy once I'm in the right position.

+1

I found mine too soft and not supportive enough.

I'm 6ft 7" and find the seats great! My last car gave me chronic back ache! They are really supportive and good on long runs too.

Maybe you need to just need to keep adjusting until your comfy.

Fine for me

Have seat as low as it will go and fairly upright (I have had a lot of fixed race seats before). Spent a long time fiddling with the steering wheel height and distance and that has made it just about perfect.

Can do the trip to Devon (250miles) without a break easily.

If I had to have the seat higher that could give me problems.

Most comfortable car I've ever driven but then I'm knee-high to a grasshopper . The Czechs aren't shortarses so can't understand why tall people find it uncomfortable.

Thanks for your responses, not really the responses I was looking for though. I'm just over six feet tall. Maybe I have a deformed back or something? I've only owned my Fabia for just over a week so we'll see how things change. I'll really make an effort to find that perfect seating position. Failing that I'll prob have to get some decorative scatter cushions

Can do the trip to Devon (250miles) without a break easily.

same with my 209 mile journey home

I sympathize with you.. I'm 6'4", and pretty big. I notice the gap at bottom of back - its like I almost wanna poke my ass in the corner a bit more. But as idleness said, adjust everything else too, not just the seat, have now got a very comfortable position dialled in, and it's quite different to how I used to sit in cars. Can manage hours & hours without any issue now

I'll swap them with some standard sdi 'comfort' one's if you fancy! :p

I sympathize with you.. I'm 6'4", and pretty big. I notice the gap at bottom of back - its like I almost wanna poke my ass in the corner a bit more.

I found this too when I had it! And if I sat like that, it was worse everywhere else. It was ok for about 2hours or so I found, horrid beyound that. My Polo has the same issues sadly.

Hmm, I find mine extremely comfy once I'm in the right position.

+1

Hi guys,

I recently bought a Fabia vRS. Loving everything about it apart from the seats I simply cannot find a comfortable position to sit in. I drove for just over one hour to my parents this evening and had chronic backache by the time I arrived. For a start there is no adjustable lumbar support. However, even without this I feel it provides absolutely no support the base of my back. It also feels like there is a swollen lump in the seat profile halfway up my back which is not present on the passenger seat. Could the driver seat be broken in some way as to make it ridiculously uncomfortable?

I'm planning to remove my seat covers sometime in the near future so may be able to perform some adjustments to the foam padding.

Any help or advice would be appreciated,

Thanks

What!! Are you seriously overweight or something? (only kidding) We both drive ours and think the seats are fine. Pity they are not leather though.

What!! Are you seriously overweight or something? (only kidding) We both drive ours and think the seats are fine. Pity they are not leather though.

I do have a bad posture, apparently, which may be contributing to my discomfort. I'm sure I'll get used to it in time. I just have to get used to having my seat in a different position to my previous car.

I'm 6' 5" and I find the seats extremely comfortable with no hard bits in them like some seats get over time and since having the car they have never made my back ache on long journeys which is something previous cars were good at !

I didn't get on with them when I 1st got it... but after a couple of weeks of major & minor adjustments I found the right position.

I actually found I was to far away from the pedals.. I was stretching to much for the clutch and moved just a tiny bit down the seat each time, which gave me the missing back support feeling.

In the end I just needed to be 2 cranks higher on the height adjuster.

Funny though, As I set it up the same as my previous car at 1st... another Fabia but with non sports seats.