[SQ5]

How often do you use the Massage Seats in your M5? Do you like them? How do they compare to others you have tried?

[Greer]

I use them when driving for 3 hours or more. So for me, that means twice a year.

[F30Andy]

Gimmick.

And no happy ending

[Rafichicago]

Comparing to S class they are mediocre at best. I use them on longer trips. Not what I bought this car for.

[SQ5]

Originally Posted by Rafichicago

Comparing to S class they are mediocre at best. I use them on longer trips. Not what I bought this car for.

What year S class?

[Silverx88x]

Don't really use much at all

[Aronis]

Yes.

[nerdogray]

Better than the ones in the M8.

[carseatsm5]

Never.

[Nighttime22]

Sort of nice to have on longer drives to just move things around a little. If I didn't have them I wouldn't miss them. I could probably get the same effect accelerating and decelerating a few times... lol.

[FC]

I like them after a long day at work and stuck in traffic.

[Rafichicago]

Originally Posted by SQ5

What year S class?

W222 after facelift. I haven’t had a chance to drive newest one.

[NoMods]

meh, i just go to an asian massage parlor after a long trip and hope i don't get arrested. lol

[jnotrom711]

I only use them for long drives. They're not great in my opinion. They're certainly better than the ones I had in my F10 M5, but they are not as good as the ones in my G-63 AMG.

The cooling sucks also, actually in both M5 and G63, but is what it is, the cooled seats on my escalade and other much cheaper cars were a lot better, go figure.

[pbonsalb]

I use them on long drives. I agree with the comment about the ventilation—it is nothing like air conditioned seats on certain other cars.

[JSal335is]

I haven’t used them yet, but my passenger(s) like them.

[smbsocal]

The massage seats are not as good as those in MB but the wife and I use them in the BMWs all the time.

Don't expect the massage seats to do more than help keep the blood flowing though.

[pmsteinm]

I don't use them much either. But these are the most comfortable seats in any car I've owned or ridden in. I was worried before getting it because the seats in my wife's X5 cause me all kinds of discomfort. No problem in the M. I almost want to get my wife an X5M just for the seats.

[pbonsalb]

I don’t find the seats that comfortable, or maybe it is the driving position with the seat fairly close to the floor given my 6’3” height. On a 500 mile drive, my legs bother me more than in my Cayenne, which has a more upright seating position. Am about to do another 500 mile drive and will take the Cayenne. The 500 mile drive in the M5 a few weeks ago was a personal best, though, at 6:45 door to door, which is pretty good given the roads and traffic and construction in the mid Atlantic and Northeast.

[FC]

Originally Posted by pmsteinm

I don't use them much either. But these are the most comfortable seats in any car I've owned or ridden in. I was worried before getting it because the seats in my wife's X5 cause me all kinds of discomfort. No problem in the M. I almost want to get my wife an X5M just for the seats.

I agree. Very comfortable seats. My V70R had pretty nice, comfy, sporty seats too.

[Rafichicago]

Originally Posted by jnotrom711

I only use them for long drives. They're not great in my opinion. They're certainly better than the ones I had in my F10 M5, but they are not as good as the ones in my G-63 AMG.

The cooling sucks also, actually in both M5 and G63, but is what it is, the cooled seats on my escalade and other much cheaper cars were a lot better, go figure.

MB’s and BMW’s seats are not cooled. They’re ventilated. I believe seats in Cadillac and Lexus are cooled.

[pbonsalb]

Probably a bunch of cars have air conditioned seats. My 21 Cayenne S has them, as another example.