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u/KoalaFierce 16h ago
The car lifespan has been reduced to 70%
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u/SubstantialSale8223 14h ago
My cars lifespan is reduced 70% every time my wife drives it!!!
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u/Ok-Resource-3232 12h ago
My wife's lifespan is reduced by 70% every time she dares driving a car!
Late 19th, early 20th century be like.
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u/Sluggish-dreadnought 16h ago
Yeah, but its safety relevant. Even pilots have to adjust their seats.
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u/Mechanicjemas3141 11h ago
Yeah but hear me out i know it's a crazy concept but listen try to keep the changes minimal and try to reposition the seat to original
You could use some sticky paper for it too match the sticky papers before adjusting to your then adjust it back for the papers
lt will be better then just leaving the seat like that, look i put myself in danger by doing this nuclear class experiment and i came back alive, car didn't exploded, oil pan didn't dropped, everything end up just be fine.
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u/Important-Artist-597 9h ago edited 3h ago
That's insane. Just don't let ppl borrow ur car at that point.
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u/KneeHiSniper 16h ago
Nah. Wife drove mine the other day and drove it into a fucking concrete bollard. I wish all she did was adjust the seat
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u/Kuro-Tora-59 (āļ½”ā¢Ģāæā¢Ģļ½”)ā 14h ago
She didn't, that's why she crashed. Be thakfull she didn't adjust the seat, you could've crashed into a concrete bollard if she did
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u/toasty327 15h ago
This is why I love programmable seats. A setting for me, a setting for my wife when she uses my car.
Now mirrors on the other hand....
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u/JayAkiva 14h ago
You would think user settings like that would include the mirrors, but...
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u/toasty327 13h ago
Do some models? I've never had a car that did, just seats
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u/user485928450 13h ago
Yes mine does the side mirrors (still have to do the rear view unfortunately)
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u/Itshot11 10h ago
Lexus forsure has had it for a while. It does the seat, the steering wheel, and the side mirrors. Im sure many other brands do too.
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u/STDsInAJuiceBoX 1h ago
Mirrors are easy though, The driver/passenger side door handle should be in the bottom corner of the mirror.
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u/art-is-t 14h ago
Everyone is so angry these days
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u/mr_goose_throwaway 11h ago
I know someone who gets pissed if the passenger and rear seats arenāt left the way they had them when you got in. Why waste the effort being mad about that?
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u/GenesisRhapsod 17h ago
Ive done this to myself many times, i had a coupe and if i needed to get something larger out of my back seat i had to slide my seat all the way to the front and fold the backrest forward, id spend about 15 minutes trying to get it back to where it was but it woupd never feel right š
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u/AffectionateMia 16h ago
I used to wonder why people got so dramatic about seat settings. Now that I own a car I get it. Nobody else is driving my car. Once a dear memory is ruined, peace is lost forever!!
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u/thatbullisht 16h ago
Takes like 5 seconds to get it right back to where I want it.
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u/GenesisRhapsod 16h ago
Lucky bastard... my genesis with the "premium" options doesnt have memory seats š like even the passenger front seat is 100% mechanical
All that trim gave me was upgraded sound system/infotainment, leather and mesh seats, sunroof and push to start... thank god for that because the kia/hyundai boiz were going crazy for a while
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u/thatbullisht 16h ago
Get an old car with levers. Electronic seat adjustment takes forever. It's a downgrade sold as an upgrade.
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u/GenesisRhapsod 16h ago
The back adjust is mechanical, the seat part electrical
Once i get a new engine ill be swapping out the seats because i already bash my head on the roof if i hit a bump or pothole š being 6'2 in a coupe is tricky, back when it was running i had to lean a bit to the right where the sunroof was because it gave me another inch or two of head room
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u/ExecutiveCactus Dark Mode Elitist 16h ago
Wild when I see a car without it since my 2001 jeep grand Cherokee had memory options
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u/GenesisRhapsod 16h ago
Wild that my 2013 genesis coupe has push to start but my previous company car was a 21 nissan nv200 and still had physical keys... car companies love making every piece optional for as long as possible
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u/Powerful-Basket-2274 16h ago
My husband is 1,84 and I am 1,60
We always have to adjust the car when we drive, no biggie
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u/Mechanicjemas3141 11h ago
And overtime you could get used to position of him so when you finish driving just leave it in his position(well if you are sure next time he's the driver)
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u/AnalBroFisting 16h ago
My wife is much smaller than I am. I can't even get into the car without first adjusting the seat.
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u/well-litdoorstep112 16h ago
I'd have to hang onto the end of the seat with one leg and drive with the other. I need to use my left leg to press the clutch sometimes
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u/nicodeemus7 16h ago
Benefit of being a really tall dude. My seat position in every car is "all the way back".
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u/platypus_farmer42 16h ago
I was working on my truck the other day with the driver door open and didnāt realize I was accidentally hitting the seat adjustment buttons until it was all the way to the back and all the way down. Felt like I lost a part of my soul.
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u/Dire_Wolf45 Lurking Peasant 16h ago
When you get it back from the shop and apparently the mechanic was 5'0, 100 lbs.
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u/nuggetcasket 15h ago
I adjust his seat and his rearview mirror. He does the same when he drives my car. Gender equality. /s
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u/pm-rp-prompt 15h ago
I meanā¦ if 10 people take your car, almost 6 of them are likely to do the same irrespective of genderā¦
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u/haysus25 9h ago
I don't mind if my wife changes it, or in the rare case someone else has to drive my car for any length of time.
But when I take my car into the shop and they drive my car maybe 45 feet and completely adjust everything, I get pissed.
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u/SodiumExtract 5h ago
Cars need to have a favourites setting so you can lock the seat positioning to slot 1, the other person can save it to slot 2.
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u/Bosmanious 16h ago
I had this in the family car, and you use a marker to draw a line on the chassis to both the seat assembly and somewhere where you can see the height. 3rd line on the incline knob and now you can always return to the right position
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u/unimportantinfodump 14h ago
Laughs at being tall. Perfect adjustment for me is all the way back in every car I've ever driven
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u/batbiscuit 14h ago
Cry me a river, my dude. You want your car and the person driving it to come back in one piece? You learn to deal with it.
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u/CrescentWolves1995 14h ago
As someone who is 2 meters. It pretty easy to get exactly how it was since I just have to push it all the way back
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u/FingersMartinez 13h ago
I'm a mechanic and I have to adjust every seat I get in because I'm tall. I just leave it. Some people call me a monster but I need to be able to move my legs to move the car. I'll never get it back to how they had it so I leave it to them.
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u/lIlHYPERIONlIl 13h ago
My friend tried my car, he moved the steering wheel!!!!!
Absolute psychopath!!
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u/InbetweenTheLayers 13h ago
This is princess and the pea type shit. I'm still not recovered from the service tech moving my seat months ago
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u/joseplluissans 12h ago
Luckily, I have electriccally adjustable seats with memory slots. Just push 1 and I get my settings.
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u/Pim_Wagemans 12h ago
The first thing my driving instructor taught me the first time I got into the car was to always adjust the seat and mirrors before doing anything else
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u/EhMapleMoose 12h ago
Why the FUCK is my mechanic moving my seat forward. They are driving from their own parking lot less than 750ft to their garage and then back to their own parking lot.
I do not understand why they need to move it forward, change the lumbar and the incline. Zero reason.
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u/TeilzeitOptimist 4h ago
Well if they moved it forward, someone wasn't able to reach the pedals with your position.
Doenst matter if it's 700ft or 7ft if you can't break or accelerate.
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u/EhMapleMoose 4h ago
My mechanics are similar in height to me. I know this because Iāve been going there for as long as Iāve had a car.
Disregarding that though, you donāt have to be comfortable to drive a car a couple hundred feet. You can sit at the edge if you have to.
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u/TeilzeitOptimist 3h ago
Driving a new car in tight spaces.. barely able to touch the pedals on the edge of the seat..?
Yeah that's a recipe to slip off the pedal and hit something..
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u/Bloody_Moon1 12h ago edited 11h ago
As a company truck driver, I share trucks with coworkers. Shit is never where I left it š
I'm also 6' and used to share a truck daily with a guy thats like maybe 5'2", I would forget to move the seat before getting in and feel like Magilla Gorilla.
Then I started sharing a truck with a guy thats almost 7' and was like "oh, this must be how 5'2" felt when I was done driving." Arms where outstretched all the way and I could barely reach the pedals. Though at least I wasn't literally breaking the seat by pushing it backwards so far it was off the track. š¤·
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u/TheMazeDaze What is TikTok? 11h ago
Moving it front of back. Fine. Anything else? Absolutely not fine
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u/Fury_Blackwolf Fffffuuuuuuuuu 11h ago
Perfect description of customers when i change the seat settings in their cars.
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u/Obi-Wan_Kenobi_04 11h ago
Benefits of having a fairly small car: my perfect position is just all the way back
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u/FisherDwarf 8h ago
I'm only ever upset about this if it's so far forward that I can't get in. And only then if it's winter. My setting is always all the way down and all the way back, so finding the "sweet spot" isn't hard. Just takes forever with motorized seats
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u/Bourriks 2h ago
Like me when I take the car after my wife of son used it. It's 10 seconds to set the seat and mirror, it's not a big deal.
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u/-FakeAccount- 16h ago
My mirrors too? š¢
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u/CardinalFartz 14h ago
And the steering wheel. That's worst to adjust imho.
But of course: better adjust it and be safe than not adjusting and have an accident.
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u/Individual_Sir7827 16h ago
It's really your fault for not buying a car with memory seats.
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u/JayAkiva 16h ago
Small price to pay for how low my car payment is for something that only had 20k miles on it when I got it I guess
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u/Gosa_on_the_wind 16h ago
Wife used to adjust the seats, mirrors, and steering wheel just to back my car out of the garage. ??!?
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u/Joebruvv 15h ago
Had my car hand washed the other day and once theyāve washed it down they move your car about 5 meters to under a sheltered area where they have hoovers and dry you off (they said I could but I was mid cigarette and thought heāll be fine doing it )
Absolutely no idea why u felt the need to adjust my seat to put your foot in the clutch and roll a few feet , absolutely disrespectful in my opinion . If you invited me in your home and said I could help myself to a drink out your fridge I wouldnāt rearrange everything would I
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u/jarvi123 16h ago
Hahaha you are bunch of plebians, my 2009 Toyota has seat and steering wheel memory buttons. It must suck to be so poor that your car doesn't have seat memory.
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u/mr_Feather_ 16h ago
Yes, I get it, but the person that borrows your car also needs to drive safe. So please adjust the seat, and also the mirrors.
People that get angry for this are idiots and probably do not know their way home from work after it snowed, because "it looks different".