E70 X5 - What are these amazing looking seats?

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Am obviously looking for an E70 X5.

I spotted these seats in an advert and my thought was that they must be the £1405 option for Comfort seats.

Trouble is, when I keyword search for "Comfort", they all say that and they definitely don't feature these seats.

They look very similar to those I used to have in my old 7 series Sport

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I have the 2008 options list and it only gives the option for normal, comfort or Sport. Some that I've seen on the second hand market have electric headrests (that look different to these). VERY few cars seem to have these amazingly comfortable looking seats.

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Camp Freddie do your seats have electrically adjustable headrests? Or are the upper portion of the backrest independently adjustable from the lower back half? Intrigued!!

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Dannbodge said:

Do you know the reg?

Post that and I'll grab the build sheet

That's a really kind request. Have actually misplaced which vehicle this was and to be honest I need a vehicle with blue or black carpets as the old girl is going out to thar countrysooide!

At the minute I'm actually just trying to get to the bottom of all of the myriad options and which ones mean anything to me. I found the 2007 brochure with all of the accesories which has been very useful.

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Spuffington said:

As above, Comfort Seats and they're bloody marvellous. Had them on my 550i and they're definitely one of the most underrated options when people spec new cars.

Unfortunately therefore so few of the around.

Although I loved them, I still think the E70 sports seats are still very good, although in a different league. But because of that, I wouldn't seek out an E70 just with comfort seats for comfort seat sake. It would be on the full package, condition and service history.

Obviously and very good advice to anyone. There are SO many of these cars out there though and I am in no rush so want to be a little picky if I can. Funny how cars that have been specced with these seats often come loaded to the gunwales with options like HUD, Adaptive Drive, heated rear seats, electric blinds etc that you don't normally see.

Speaking of which, Adaptive drive, anyone know whether this magic button is any good? Again, many dealers don't know what they have and fail to advertise the Adaptive Drive or indeed the Comfort seats. Annoying how many say that the car has Comfort seats when it doesn't seem to have these uber-fancy ones.

So far I have gauged that a lot of people seem to have bought SE cars to get the rugged side-step look and then specced them up to M-Sports with the appropriate wheels, steering wheel, dynamic suspension and sports seats. Odd that the M-Sport never came with the option of sill plates but then I guess they are an aerodynamic flaw :-). I am not yet decided on whether I prefer the colour coded M-sports or the black unpainted trim SE's.

Always nice to find a really high spec 1 owner car with full main dealer service history. I did this with my C63 and ended up with an absolute peach. Will be sad to see her moved on :-(

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Think these are what Cheib has...

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Thanks. So are we all agreed that if the shoulder section is not independently adjustable from the lower section and likewise has the additional button to effect that on the side of the seat base then they are not the comfort seat?