Seats - BMW 840Ci Owner's Handbook Manual

Seats

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Electric seat adjustment
1 Rocker switch for adjusting thigh
support (only on BMW Sport seat)
To adjust, move switch in direction of
arrow:
2 Seat angle adjustment
3 Forward/back movement
4 Seat height adjustment
5 Seat back angle adjustment
Head restraints
These are automatically adjusted in
height whenever the seat height or
backrest is repositioned.
Their angle can be adjusted manually.
b
To relieve the load on the discs
of the spine, sit well back in the seat
with your back resting firmly against
the seat back.
The ideal position is when the head is
a straight-line extension of the spinal
column.
On a long journey, the seat back can
be inclined slightly more, to reduce
muscular strain. You should still be
able to reach the highest point on the
steering wheel with the arms slightly
bent.c
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a
Do not reposition the driver's
seat while the car is in motion. A sud-
den seat movement could cause you
to lose control of the car and result in
an accident.
During a journey, neither the driver's
nor the front passenger's seat back
should be reclined to an excessive
angle. Otherwise there is a risk in the
event of an accident that the seat
occupant could "submarine" under
the seat belt, which would then fail to
exert its full protective action (see also
safety instructions concerning "Seat
belts").
Do not push the front seats rearwards
if the car is standing on a slope (e.g. a
garage entrance ramp or similar), or
the automatic seat belt height adjust-
ers could become disconnected.c
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