Toying with the idea of buying the wife a C70. Went to look at two on a forecourt on Saturday. One was electric seats the other manual.
How the seats tilt is really important because we have two small kids who will be jumping in and out of the back constantly, so the tilt mechanism will get a lot of punishment.
On the electic seats car I looked at, neither of the electric tilts worked. One side had some resistance but didn't actually move the seats (they moved OK with the seat based controls) while the other side just flapped up and down loosely like something inside was broken.
On the manual again one side didn't work at all. It was really stiff and didn't slide up or down. The other side did, thankfully, work.
So my question is, based on the experience of C70 owners who use their rear seats a lot, do the mechanisms tend to fail? Any difference between the electric and manual (other than the electric being slower, which I had hoped to see for myself, but obviously didn't)?
By the way, the cars I looked at are here http://dealerservices.autotrader.co....ales_stock.htm.
If you are tempted by these make sure you take a careful look at them before buying. I asked if the air con on the silver one was working and he said 'I believe so'. I tested it and heard the compressor constantly clicking in and out. I told him it wasn't working. He asked if I'd turned it on with the doors open or closed. I told him open. He said that would be why it wasn't working because the air con won't work 'unless there's a vacuum in the car'. Someone should write a book about car salesmens' yarns!
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