Ok Ok.. tons of people seem to like the seats in the CX-5. I HATE mine with a passion (GS/Touring trim - cloth). I have a 90 minute (each way) commute to work each day. I've had my CX-5 for 6 weeks now (4000 miles / 6000 km). I just get a little past half way to or half way home from work and my ass is numb and my tailbone is throbbing something awful (about 50-55 minutes in). By the time I get home I can barely sit down. I'm constantly shifting back and forth trying to find a comfortable way to sit while I'm driving. It's bad enough I took the CX-5 to the Toyota dealer yesterday to look at trading it for a slightly used (10,000km / 6000 miles) '14 Highlander XLE just about "straight up" (cost me $1100 to get out the door if I went for it). The seats in the Highlander felt like I was sitting on clouds. The seats in my '12 Sorento felt like I was sitting on clouds. The seats in my CX-5 feel like I'm sitting on cheap $5 bleacher seats at the hockey rink. UGGH.
So what are my options? Other than trading the thing in just because of the seats (I really like everything else in the car.. it's great to drive, I've gotten used to the infotainment quirks by using playlists on my usb key, I'm happy with the engine and handling and transmission, it's a good looking vehicle, love the fuel economy, etc.) - what can I do? I see there are places like Katzkins that sell leather seat upholstery with additional "gel cushioning inserts" as an option - I'd have to go down to somewhere in New York to get it done - I can't find any Canadian installers - DIY only up here - and it'll run me somewhere around $1500 with the leather and gel. I picked up an after market seat pad at Autozone last weekend and tried it this week - it just made sitting in the car awkward - felt like I was sliding around on the seat - that wasn't any better and it still wasn't particularly comfortable. I thought I'd give the car a few thousand km for the seats to "break in" but 6 weeks in and I'm as miserable as the first day I drove to work in it. (Unfortunately my test drive was only 25 minutes - that wasn't enough to realize the seats were going to suck the life out of me).
Thoughts? Ideas? Help?!?! The wife is going to kill me when I tell her I hate driving the car I just wrote a $38,000 cheque for just because of the seats.
So what are my options? Other than trading the thing in just because of the seats (I really like everything else in the car.. it's great to drive, I've gotten used to the infotainment quirks by using playlists on my usb key, I'm happy with the engine and handling and transmission, it's a good looking vehicle, love the fuel economy, etc.) - what can I do? I see there are places like Katzkins that sell leather seat upholstery with additional "gel cushioning inserts" as an option - I'd have to go down to somewhere in New York to get it done - I can't find any Canadian installers - DIY only up here - and it'll run me somewhere around $1500 with the leather and gel. I picked up an after market seat pad at Autozone last weekend and tried it this week - it just made sitting in the car awkward - felt like I was sliding around on the seat - that wasn't any better and it still wasn't particularly comfortable. I thought I'd give the car a few thousand km for the seats to "break in" but 6 weeks in and I'm as miserable as the first day I drove to work in it. (Unfortunately my test drive was only 25 minutes - that wasn't enough to realize the seats were going to suck the life out of me).
Thoughts? Ideas? Help?!?! The wife is going to kill me when I tell her I hate driving the car I just wrote a $38,000 cheque for just because of the seats.