Seat can crack windshield?

Pierre Terdiman · 10-10-2016, 02:59 AM

Seen on Facebook in the BMW i8 group: it looks like the seat can actually touch & crack the windshield??

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-...53013428_o.jpg

Is that correct? Can anybody test (gently!) and confirm that the seat can indeed touch the windshield?

Ghetto2315 · 10-12-2016, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Pierre Terdiman

Seen on Facebook in the BMW i8 group: it looks like the seat can actually touch & crack the windshield??

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-...53013428_o.jpg

Is that correct? Can anybody test (gently!) and confirm that the seat can indeed touch the windshield?

This is correct. Confirmed it with my BMW shop foreman

stevebgt1 · 10-13-2016, 05:39 AM

Just be careful .

You can also break the rear window if you leave a concrete block on the parcel shelf!

:-)

Pierre Terdiman · 10-13-2016, 07:07 AM

"Just be careful" => tell that to the 5 y.o. kid who would sit in the back. Considering how regularly his toys gets broken, I'm sure he wouldn't be more "careful" with that rear seat

stevebgt1 · 10-13-2016, 07:21 AM

So a responsible parent would pull the seat forward for the child and help him/her out of the car ? I wouldn't let any of my kids do what they want in my car.

skinrock · 10-13-2016, 01:13 PM

I'm confused as to how a padded headrest can crack a windshield. If it can do that, what will it do to your skull in the event of whiplash?

skinrock · 10-15-2016, 02:25 AM

Also...it doesn't reach...

Ghetto2315 · 10-16-2016, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by skinrock

I'm confused as to how a padded headrest can crack a windshield. If it can do that, what will it do to your skull in the event of whiplash?

When you fold your seat forward so people can get in the back seat and you leave it in the folded position and move the power seat forward.

skinrock · 10-17-2016, 12:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Ghetto2315

When you fold your seat forward so people can get in the back seat and you leave it in the folded position and move the power seat forward.

Yea except it doesn't reach the windshield.

Not to mention it's padded...

Pierre Terdiman · 10-17-2016, 02:50 AM

Well that's why I asked: I'm getting conflicting answers here. Some people say it doesn't reach, some people say it does. I don't have an i8 myself (yet) so I cannot check.

stevebgt1 · 10-17-2016, 02:59 AM

I Will check, but from what I have seen so far from the very few times I,ve pulled mine forward, it does not reach.
Maybe if the seat is pumped all the way down, before it is slid forward ?
Either way, you,ve got to be a bit of a knob to crack your own windscreen with your seat !

Ghetto2315 · 10-17-2016, 07:59 AM

Perhaps when the seat is all the way up and then you fold it and then push the seat forward it would hit. In my M4, if I did that and I wasn't careful, it would break sun visor!

I am fairly tall so my seat is all the way down so mine probably won't touch the windshield. I would try for you guys in my i8 but the lack of memory seats makes it a No-Go. I would spend a week trying to get back to my perfect position if I moved the seat lol

stevebgt1 · 10-17-2016, 09:19 AM

From what I remember, if anything, it just stops on the headlining, about 10" away from the windscreen.....

skinrock · 10-17-2016, 11:36 AM

I set it forward as far as it would go (both settings) and tilted the seat forward, it was no where near the glass.

Almaretto · 10-17-2016, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by stevebgt1

Just be careful .

You can also break the rear window if you leave a concrete block on the parcel shelf!

:-)

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Carac · 10-18-2016, 09:47 AM

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Originally Posted by skinrock

Yea except it doesn't reach the windshield.

Not to mention it's padded...

Once the pad is compressed there's hard plastic/metal/fiber underneath...the seat is meant to stay ridge and not deform in a car accident, it can handle an electric motor pushing it into the windshield.

CrankIT · 01-07-2023, 02:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Pierre Terdiman

Seen on Facebook in the BMW i8 group: it looks like the seat can actually touch & crack the windshield??

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-...53013428_o.jpg

Is that correct? Can anybody test (gently!) and confirm that the seat can indeed touch the windshield?

I can confirm the front seat can crack the windscreen windshield. A valet released the lock on the passenger seat then used the electric motor to move the seat further forward. It put a 12 inch shatter crack in the windshield

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Pierre Terdiman New Member 4 Rep 18 Posts Drives: - Join Date: Sep 2016 Location: Zürich iTrader: (0)	"Just be careful" => tell that to the 5 y.o. kid who would sit in the back. Considering how regularly his toys gets broken, I'm sure he wouldn't be more "careful" with that rear seat
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stevebgt1 Private 12 Rep 62 Posts Drives: Audi RS4 Join Date: Sep 2016 Location: Manchester UK iTrader: (0)	So a responsible parent would pull the seat forward for the child and help him/her out of the car ? I wouldn't let any of my kids do what they want in my car.
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skinrock Agent Smith 270 Rep 3,344 Posts Drives: 2016 i8 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: The Matrix iTrader: (9) Garage List 2016 BMW i8 [10.00]	I'm confused as to how a padded headrest can crack a windshield. If it can do that, what will it do to your skull in the event of whiplash?
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Pierre Terdiman New Member 4 Rep 18 Posts Drives: - Join Date: Sep 2016 Location: Zürich iTrader: (0)	Well that's why I asked: I'm getting conflicting answers here. Some people say it doesn't reach, some people say it does. I don't have an i8 myself (yet) so I cannot check.
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stevebgt1 Private 12 Rep 62 Posts Drives: Audi RS4 Join Date: Sep 2016 Location: Manchester UK iTrader: (0)	I Will check, but from what I have seen so far from the very few times I,ve pulled mine forward, it does not reach. Maybe if the seat is pumped all the way down, before it is slid forward ? Either way, you,ve got to be a bit of a knob to crack your own windscreen with your seat !
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Ghetto2315 Colonel 831 Rep 2,352 Posts Drives: 16' BMW i8 Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: The REAL Jersey Shore iTrader: (1) Garage List 2001 BMW M3 E46 CON ... [9.50] 2016 BMW i8 [10.00] 2003 JEEP GRAND CHE ... [0.00] 2000 540i SPORT E39 [10.00] 2007 TOYOTA TACOMA ... [0.00]	Perhaps when the seat is all the way up and then you fold it and then push the seat forward it would hit. In my M4, if I did that and I wasn't careful, it would break sun visor! I am fairly tall so my seat is all the way down so mine probably won't touch the windshield. I would try for you guys in my i8 but the lack of memory seats makes it a No-Go. I would spend a week trying to get back to my perfect position if I moved the seat lol Last edited by Ghetto2315; 10-17-2016 at 08:05 AM..
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stevebgt1 Private 12 Rep 62 Posts Drives: Audi RS4 Join Date: Sep 2016 Location: Manchester UK iTrader: (0)	From what I remember, if anything, it just stops on the headlining, about 10" away from the windscreen.....
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skinrock Agent Smith 270 Rep 3,344 Posts Drives: 2016 i8 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: The Matrix iTrader: (9) Garage List 2016 BMW i8 [10.00]	I set it forward as far as it would go (both settings) and tilted the seat forward, it was no where near the glass.
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