2006 Rav4 Xt5 Seat

[Navy Bob]

Hi everyone. Have just picked up a rav4 with electric drivers seat. Overall I am very pleased with my new car and get plenty of admiring looks. I love it. This forum seems particularly interesting and one that I read often.

I am after some help in as much the drivers seat seems to have a large bulge in the middle of my back. Even with the lumber support fully retracted a point about 4 inches above that pushes out from the seat. It is very uncomfortable. I have compared it to a manual seat (which does not suffer this) and my local dealership said it would investigate. I have tried the seat in as many different positions as possible but the bulge is still there! I am looking out for a similar vehicle to mine to see if that suffers as well or does my seat have a problem? Does anyone have any ideas? :D

[TonyIOW]

Hi everyone. Have just picked up a rav4 with electric drivers seat. Overall I am very pleased with my new car and get plenty of admiring looks. I love it. This forum seems particularly interesting and one that I read often.

I am after some help in as much the drivers seat seems to have a large bulge in the middle of my back. Even with the lumber support fully retracted a point about 4 inches above that pushes out from the seat. It is very uncomfortable. I have compared it to a manual seat (which does not suffer this) and my local dealership said it would investigate. I have tried the seat in as many different positions as possible but the bulge is still there! I am looking out for a similar vehicle to mine to see if that suffers as well or does my seat have a problem? Does anyone have any ideas? :D

Hi. Sorry to hear of your problem. Whilst it's obviously subjective I cannot feel any bulge in my seat when the lumbar support is fully retracted (mine's a T180 which I guess uses the same seat mechanism as yours). It sounds as if the lumbar support adjustment may be somehow "out of sync", or sticking whne partially extended, perhaps. I assume you've given the area in question a good shove to see if that helps? If not, maybe worth a try? Hope that helps, good luck in getting it sorted.

Cheers, Tony

[Easy]

Hi everyone. Have just picked up a rav4 with electric drivers seat. Overall I am very pleased with my new car and get plenty of admiring looks. I love it. This forum seems particularly interesting and one that I read often.

I am after some help in as much the drivers seat seems to have a large bulge in the middle of my back. Even with the lumber support fully retracted a point about 4 inches above that pushes out from the seat. It is very uncomfortable. I have compared it to a manual seat (which does not suffer this) and my local dealership said it would investigate. I have tried the seat in as many different positions as possible but the bulge is still there! I am looking out for a similar vehicle to mine to see if that suffers as well or does my seat have a problem? Does anyone have any ideas? :D

Can't say that iv'e noticed any problem with the drivers seat, it seems there must be a fault there, worth letting the dealer take a look

[Navy Bob]

Hi everyone. Have just picked up a rav4 with electric drivers seat. Overall I am very pleased with my new car and get plenty of admiring looks. I love it. This forum seems particularly interesting and one that I read often.

I am after some help in as much the drivers seat seems to have a large bulge in the middle of my back. Even with the lumber support fully retracted a point about 4 inches above that pushes out from the seat. It is very uncomfortable. I have compared it to a manual seat (which does not suffer this) and my local dealership said it would investigate. I have tried the seat in as many different positions as possible but the bulge is still there! I am looking out for a similar vehicle to mine to see if that suffers as well or does my seat have a problem? Does anyone have any ideas? :D

Hi. Sorry to hear of your problem. Whilst it's obviously subjective I cannot feel any bulge in my seat when the lumbar support is fully retracted (mine's a T180 which I guess uses the same seat mechanism as yours). It sounds as if the lumbar support adjustment may be somehow "out of sync", or sticking whne partially extended, perhaps. I assume you've given the area in question a good shove to see if that helps? If not, maybe worth a try? Hope that helps, good luck in getting it sorted.

Cheers, Tony

Thanks for the advice. Will try the 'shove' method. if that doesn't work I'll take it back to be looked at.

[Navy Bob]

Hi everyone. Have just picked up a rav4 with electric drivers seat. Overall I am very pleased with my new car and get plenty of admiring looks. I love it. This forum seems particularly interesting and one that I read often.

I am after some help in as much the drivers seat seems to have a large bulge in the middle of my back. Even with the lumber support fully retracted a point about 4 inches above that pushes out from the seat. It is very uncomfortable. I have compared it to a manual seat (which does not suffer this) and my local dealership said it would investigate. I have tried the seat in as many different positions as possible but the bulge is still there! I am looking out for a similar vehicle to mine to see if that suffers as well or does my seat have a problem? Does anyone have any ideas? :D

Hi. Sorry to hear of your problem. Whilst it's obviously subjective I cannot feel any bulge in my seat when the lumbar support is fully retracted (mine's a T180 which I guess uses the same seat mechanism as yours). It sounds as if the lumbar support adjustment may be somehow "out of sync", or sticking whne partially extended, perhaps. I assume you've given the area in question a good shove to see if that helps? If not, maybe worth a try? Hope that helps, good luck in getting it sorted.

Cheers, Tony

Thanks for the advice. Will try the 'shove' method. if that doesn't work I'll take it back to be looked at.

Hey the 'shove 'method worked. Thanks for the advice-sounded simple but I hadn't thought of it. Cheers