The Random E46/ZHP Question Thread

[BMWCurves]

I usually set my seat relatively higher so that’s not an issue for me in the zhp but the steering reaches out so much more on the f30/80.


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Weird. I have my seat all the way down and I still feel like I'm sitting up rather than in my car.

[san]

Weird. I have my seat all the way down and I still feel like I'm sitting up rather than in my car.

When I went to m track days last year, the instructor there recommended the seat eight to be such that there is space for 4 fingers width wise between the top of the head and the roof. I tried it there and on my zhp and I do that with every car now...


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[slater]

Weird. I have my seat all the way down and I still feel like I'm sitting up rather than in my car.

yep. i felt that a lot more in the coupe than in the sedan/Touring (with M3 seats in both) - in the Touring i'm just on that line of 'in/on' feeling. it's acceptable.

in the X3... the seating position is weird. BMW designed the ergonomics to be more 'command' seating, so optimally you sit more upright. i actually don't have my seat preset all the way down in that thing... when it's all the way down you just kinda feel weird.

When I went to m track days last year, the instructor there recommended the seat eight to be such that there is space for 4 fingers width wise between the top of the head and the roof. I tried it there and on my zhp and I do that with every car now...

well... you must be a lot shorter than william and i.

with my M3 seat on the lowest setting (which it always is), and in 'proper' seat position, i can get two fingers in there. barely.

[san]

yep. i felt that a lot more in the coupe than in the sedan/Touring (with M3 seats in both) - in the Touring i'm just on that line of 'in/on' feeling. it's acceptable.

in the X3... the seating position is weird. BMW designed the ergonomics to be more 'command' seating, so optimally you sit more upright. i actually don't have my seat preset all the way down in that thing... when it's all the way down you just kinda feel weird.




well... you must be a lot shorter than william and i.

with my M3 seat on the lowest setting (which it always is), and in 'proper' seat position, i can get two fingers in there. barely.

I’m 5’11.5”


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[slater]

I’m 5’11.5”


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OK, so not that much shorter. but, 1.5", and i have a stupidly long torso. ape man.

[san]

OK, so not that much shorter. but, 1.5", and i have a stupidly long torso. ape man.

And I think I have relatively long legs, so that explains it


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[BMWCurves]

And I think I have relatively long legs, so that explains it


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Yup, I have a tall torso. All the way down in the M3 seats and I'll check today but I think I'm maybe 2 finger widths from the roof.

[704sw]

I love how every time seating gets brought up it turns into an anatomical breakdown of everyone’s body type. I’ve only met a few of you, but I have a good idea of who does and doesn’t need extra bolstering, who has a babytown torso, who has long legs, and who has apelike long arms similar to Billy Corgan lol

[Sockethead]

We're just one big happy family

[danewilson77]

Why do I feel like the clown nose should seat better into my mirror? Random E46 thought while contemplating life, while waiting for my boy to get done lifting.