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You folks who provided me with such good information in my previous post, I come to you again, requesting input. First, an update: it appears that the 2019 Accords are now available; at least the dealerships I check every day are now listing 2019 Accords in their on-line inventories. So I've made a appointment on 17 November to test drive the EX-L 2.0T with navigation at one of the dealerships that has that trim in the colour I want. I have found that particular car and colour at four dealerships to which I am willing to drive, but none of them are close; the dealership I picked for my test drive is one of the closer ones to me, and it's ninety miles away.
That's why I've been performing all the due diligence I can. You fellows satisfactorily answered my questions about headroom and legroom, but a couple of other things WRT comfort in the driver's seat have come to my attention.
First, I have found on-line complaints from a small-but-strident contingent about the driver's seat being uncomfortable to the point of causing significant back pain after driving the Accord anywhere from one hour down to fifteen minutes. I'm not talking about the seat bottom being hard, as Fired00d and Buicknut and Bigborgel mentioned in their replies to my previous thread. (I'm not terribly worried about my ass hurting over a long drive; they have cushions for that sort of thing.) The ones I'm talking about are those who have posted complaining that they feel considerable pain---a couple even termed it "excruciating"---after driving as little a fifteen minutes in the Accord.
Another, much smaller, subset complains about the angle of the headrest---excuse me, "head restraint". These declare that the angle of the head restraint pushes their heads forward and their chins into their chests. I have some experience with this. Six years ago, I test drove a Buick LaCrosse of that year, and its head restraint did that to me. No matter how I adjusted the seat, the head restraint kept pushing my head forward and down. I had to scratch the car from consideration because of that.
Have any of you experienced either of these problems---the back pain or the forward-pushing head restraint---in your driving of a 2018 Accord? Understood, it's with the caveat that every individual is different and my circumstance may be different from yours. I'm just trying to determine if there is enough water in this complaint to make it a major concern, or if it's just a complaint from a small few and only something to keep in the back of my mind.
I hope I experience no such problems, because in all other respects, the 2018 Honda Accord EX-L 2.0T holds out as an exceptional car. I'm working on a way to at least sit in one, if not drive it, before I make that trip to the dealership a week from to-morrow. Any information you guys provide, just as last time, I deeply appreciate.
That's why I've been performing all the due diligence I can. You fellows satisfactorily answered my questions about headroom and legroom, but a couple of other things WRT comfort in the driver's seat have come to my attention.
First, I have found on-line complaints from a small-but-strident contingent about the driver's seat being uncomfortable to the point of causing significant back pain after driving the Accord anywhere from one hour down to fifteen minutes. I'm not talking about the seat bottom being hard, as Fired00d and Buicknut and Bigborgel mentioned in their replies to my previous thread. (I'm not terribly worried about my ass hurting over a long drive; they have cushions for that sort of thing.) The ones I'm talking about are those who have posted complaining that they feel considerable pain---a couple even termed it "excruciating"---after driving as little a fifteen minutes in the Accord.
Another, much smaller, subset complains about the angle of the headrest---excuse me, "head restraint". These declare that the angle of the head restraint pushes their heads forward and their chins into their chests. I have some experience with this. Six years ago, I test drove a Buick LaCrosse of that year, and its head restraint did that to me. No matter how I adjusted the seat, the head restraint kept pushing my head forward and down. I had to scratch the car from consideration because of that.
Have any of you experienced either of these problems---the back pain or the forward-pushing head restraint---in your driving of a 2018 Accord? Understood, it's with the caveat that every individual is different and my circumstance may be different from yours. I'm just trying to determine if there is enough water in this complaint to make it a major concern, or if it's just a complaint from a small few and only something to keep in the back of my mind.
I hope I experience no such problems, because in all other respects, the 2018 Honda Accord EX-L 2.0T holds out as an exceptional car. I'm working on a way to at least sit in one, if not drive it, before I make that trip to the dealership a week from to-morrow. Any information you guys provide, just as last time, I deeply appreciate.