My friend has an 04' G and when he folds his seat down, the seat automatically moves so the passengers could go in. My 05 doesn't. Just wondering why they changed it, ppl have problems? Sorry if this has been asked before, I just found out recently.

 

They didn't change anything, the automatic seat is still functional just instead of pulling the bar up ( as in the 04 model ), the 05 you need to pull up the bar to fold the seat and then press the oval button inside of it to allow the seat to move foward or backwards.

Its there, just hidden

 

i find our "automatic" seat mechanism quite a nuisance. BMW does a great job in this area.

 

Yup, but make sure you hit the little button let the seat do the full travel path back and forth, if you pull the seat back up you'll stop the travel and then **GASP** have to hit the button manually to move it the rest of the way back!

 

stupid move on Infiniti's part I think. I like the way the 04's work. Pull the lever up for the seat, it automatically slides forward, put the seat back, and it automatically slides to the orginal spot. nice and simple.

 

Yup....I prefer the way my 330ci seats lift forward and "up" manually

 

Yeah. The BMW design is so intuitive and is a perfect design for coupe seats IMO. Not only do they automatically go forward, but they also go UP which makes a ton of space for the rear passenger to enter/exit.

THe infiniti ones are horrible. Oh well, what are you gonna do.

 

Yeah I hate how they did that with the 05s. I like how my 04 moves automatically. Only thing I hate about the way it was on the 04s, is that you have to recline the seat back sometimes, beacause it goes almost straight up when you push it back. Dont really know why they did this. Wouldnt say its horrible though, most cars dont even do this..

 

We'll i've only been in 2 coupes with power seats, so i guess I don't have too much frame of reference.

 

The seats on my CLS were excellent. They not only returned to their position, but to their recline as well.

The 04 G not having power recline is a whole other issue that I can't understand.

So, in the 05 they take away the memory seat but give you power recline. WTF?

 

i like the way it is right now, automatic.
plus i dont even use my back seat so it looks better without that lifting thing.

 

I prefer the 05 version better, having owned an 04 and an 05. In the 05 you can tilt the seat forward, so you can reach to the back seat to get anything without waiting for the seat to move forward and back. Also in the 05, when the seat slides back and you push the backrest back, it goes to its original position, where in the 04's the backrest stopped at the first notch, and you had to reset the back positioning. This is all IMO.

-Mike

 

It's not really automatic though, since you have to push the button twice. And for the most part you're really the only person that knows how to use it, anybody who you give a ride to (unless its a regular) will just pull the seat back as they get in and screw it all up

 

Well, no, there's still memory seat, and the power recline does not really come into play in the memory seat at all.

But basically, you lift the seat up, then you have to press a small button in the back of the seat. The seat SLOWLY moves forward all the way to the front. Then you have to press the button again for it to SLOWLY move back to it's memorized position. At this point, you cannot move the seat back at all, otherwise the seat will just stop moving backwards and you'll have to manually adjust it all over again.

Once the seat has moved all the way back, then you you have to life the back back up and it will click back into it's original place where it was without the aid of the power recline in that situation.

 

Thanks for all your input. Thats why I'm on this forum everyday.