Hi,

 

I recently got a Superb Estate 280 L+K. Love it in every way except one. I find the seat very uncomfortable. It was fine on the initial first few drives, but the longer I've spent in it, the more discomfort I get in my lower back. In fact, my experience is much the same as in this thread: 

 

I always feel there is something uncomfortably pressing into my lower back, despite how much I've altered the seat position / played with lumbar support etc. And because I drive the car every day, the mild ache it's starting to create in my back never gets a chance to recover. 

 

I'm even thinking of selling the car and taking a pretty big financial hit after having it for such a little time! So I'm looking at options:

 

1. Buy a 'standard' superb III seat and hope it doesn't have the same lumbar prominence if it doesn't have a lumbar adjustment (and even if it did, maybe as the spare seat I could it open, remove some padding etc from this area and keep my original seat to go back in when selling down the line)

 

2. Swapping for a sportline 'bucket' seat - I have seen a few for sale on ebay

 

Is the above possible? I imagine swapping the seat will be easy enough but what about electronics? Will the car have errors if I plug in a seat that doesn't have things the previous seat had (such as ventilation and massage) - will there be continuous error messages? Or will the car accept the other skoda seat gladly and I'll only have certain buttons not working?

 

Thanks

You won’t have errors on the dash other than when you went to the seat menu if you chose a non electric seat but the car would need some coding if you wanted no errors in the modules. From my experience, the standard seats without the electric lumbar are massively inferior in terms of comfort. The SportLine seats aren’t as comfy as the SE-L/L&K seats in my experience and I suggest you try to get a really good test of a SportLine car before making changes to the L&K as the seats aren’t cheap.

13 hours ago, francish said:

Hi,

 

I recently got a Superb Estate 280 L+K. Love it in every way except one. I find the seat very uncomfortable. It was fine on the initial first few drives, but the longer I've spent in it, the more discomfort I get in my lower back. In fact, my experience is much the same as in this thread: 

 

I always feel there is something uncomfortably pressing into my lower back, despite how much I've altered the seat position / played with lumbar support etc. And because I drive the car every day, the mild ache it's starting to create in my back never gets a chance to recover. 

 

I'm even thinking of selling the car and taking a pretty big financial hit after having it for such a little time! So I'm looking at options:

 

1. Buy a 'standard' superb III seat and hope it doesn't have the same lumbar prominence if it doesn't have a lumbar adjustment (and even if it did, maybe as the spare seat I could it open, remove some padding etc from this area and keep my original seat to go back in when selling down the line)

 

2. Swapping for a sportline 'bucket' seat - I have seen a few for sale on ebay

 

Is the above possible? I imagine swapping the seat will be easy enough but what about electronics? Will the car have errors if I plug in a seat that doesn't have things the previous seat had (such as ventilation and massage) - will there be continuous error messages? Or will the car accept the other skoda seat gladly and I'll only have certain buttons not working?

 

Thanks

Don’t the sportline is very hard and I suffer from lower back pain and neck oain had car 5 months and still trying to get seat adjusted ! Had L&k million 2 and found seat slot more comfortable