Got a Little Captain in It With First Class Lounge - 2015 Kia Sedona SX-L Long-Term Road Test

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• ebeaudoin Member Posts: 509

  October 2015

  That is a whole lot of adjustment. I sell Hondas and the Odyssey has two clearly-labeled levers and one unlabeled. Customers still pull the wrong one ALL THE TIME. This Kia looks pretty confusing.

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• daryleason Member Posts: 501

  October 2015

  This seems awesome for long trips, until you consider the safety issue. Reclining the seats back, extending the footrests, etc., changes the occupants positions relative to the side curtain airbags. Also, reclining back like that, transitional force during an impact would cause the seatbelts to act in a slicing motion, causing a risk of cuts, broken necks, etc. This would only be beneficial if you're intending to sleep in the vehicle while it's parked. There's no way I'd let my son kick back, stretch out, and sleep while I'm driving.

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• jlaszlo Member Posts: 60

  October 2015

  We had similar seats in a Sienna we once owned. A fun gimmick only used a handful of times.

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• bankerdanny Member Posts: 1,021

  October 2015 edited October 2015

  daryleason said:

  This seems awesome for long trips, until you consider the safety issue. Reclining the seats back, extending the footrests, etc., changes the occupants positions relative to the side curtain airbags. Also, reclining back like that, transitional force during an impact would cause the seatbelts to act in a slicing motion, causing a risk of cuts, broken necks, etc. This would only be beneficial if you're intending to sleep in the vehicle while it's parked. There's no way I'd let my son kick back, stretch out, and sleep while I'm driving.

  I recommend you wrap your family in bubble wrap and stay home. That way they are perfectly safe (assuming they don't smother or there isn't a fire or earthquake or...) and you are not clogging the road while I drive.

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• stever Guest Posts: 52,454

  October 2015 edited October 2015

  The 2016 Sedona owner's manual spends a lot of pages covering the seats. For example:
  
  
  
  

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• daryleason Member Posts: 501

  October 2015

  bankerdanny said:

  daryleason said:

  This seems awesome for long trips, until you consider the safety issue. Reclining the seats back, extending the footrests, etc., changes the occupants positions relative to the side curtain airbags. Also, reclining back like that, transitional force during an impact would cause the seatbelts to act in a slicing motion, causing a risk of cuts, broken necks, etc. This would only be beneficial if you're intending to sleep in the vehicle while it's parked. There's no way I'd let my son kick back, stretch out, and sleep while I'm driving.

  I recommend you wrap your family in bubble wrap and stay home. That way they are perfectly safe (assuming they don't smother or there isn't a fire or earthquake or...) and you are not clogging the road while I drive.

  Thanks for being condescending. But what I said was true. Why knowingly use a vehicle in a way that could cause the safety features to increase the chances of an injury? My main point is that the features, while interesting, aren't a good idea for when the vehicle is in motion. Its main benefit is if you're stopped. If you're hashing out that sort of cash for the minivan, you're probably going to stay in a hotel.

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• okseriously Member Posts: 8

  October 2015 edited October 2015

  ebeaudoin said:

  That is a whole lot of adjustment. I sell Hondas and the Odyssey has two clearly-labeled levers and one unlabeled. Customers still pull the wrong one ALL THE TIME. This Kia looks pretty confusing.

  From photo left to photo right: seat fore-aft, extend footrest, seat inboard-outboard, seatback recline.
  
  I'm hardly young, but that took me all of 10 seconds to figure out. Notice that the pictographs are even oriented to where the operator using the switch would be standing/seated.
  
  Do I need to be dumber to own an Odyssey? ;-)

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• schen72 Member Posts: 433

  October 2015

  daryleason said:

  bankerdanny said:

  daryleason said:

  This seems awesome for long trips, until you consider the safety issue. Reclining the seats back, extending the footrests, etc., changes the occupants positions relative to the side curtain airbags. Also, reclining back like that, transitional force during an impact would cause the seatbelts to act in a slicing motion, causing a risk of cuts, broken necks, etc. This would only be beneficial if you're intending to sleep in the vehicle while it's parked. There's no way I'd let my son kick back, stretch out, and sleep while I'm driving.

  I recommend you wrap your family in bubble wrap and stay home. That way they are perfectly safe (assuming they don't smother or there isn't a fire or earthquake or...) and you are not clogging the road while I drive.

  Thanks for being condescending. But what I said was true. Why knowingly use a vehicle in a way that could cause the safety features to increase the chances of an injury? My main point is that the features, while interesting, aren't a good idea for when the vehicle is in motion. Its main benefit is if you're stopped. If you're hashing out that sort of cash for the minivan, you're probably going to stay in a hotel.

  I think you're right too. It's not safe to recline the seat too much while moving. But families often wait at their kids' events, and I can still see the value of having these lounge seats.

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