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Recently bought a 2009 Ford truck where the head rest is unusable as it is at least 45 degree forward. I am short so I just raise it all the way up as I have not found how to remove it.
[edit] typo on year and spelling [/edit]
modified 1-Nov-13 15:43pm.
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djj55 wrote: I have not found how to remove it
With a dremel?
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The problem is that most modern cars have racing ambitions and therefore need to have hard sport seats with side supports. Those seats don't adjust to your body. And it's just a very small adjustment that's needed.
I'm having the opposite problem, the VW Passat that we have as a main car doesn't have enough lumbar support, and when I adjust the lumbar support there's just a tiny roll protruding into my back, making it even worse.
My solution is a pillow[^] just the right size.
Another trick that could work for you is to make your seat softer so that it adjusts to your back. Buy a seat cover and buy and/or sacrifice a duvet for a childrens bed, that you cut to size and sew together with the seat cover. It's only the part in between the side supports that needs to be padded (13"-14" wide). If you pad the side supports it might get a cramped feel to the seat.
The protruding head rest isn't anything you shouldn't be able to fix with a pair of wooden boards and a crowbar. 
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man adapts the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Really near where I live in Maryland there is a car upholstery place. Perhaps you could get somewhere like that to adjust the seat you have without having to replace it altogether. This way you can have it fixed to just how you want it.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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A friend just suggested that as well. His mother buys full custom seats for every car she buys, but this is a more reasonable alternative.
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take it back and take it back now
Or every time you drive that car you'll not be a happy camper and you'll wish you had taken it back
Bryce
MCAD
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You have the $2000 for the loss?
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I know what you mean and i understand where you're coming from - but i'd chalk it up to experience (albeit an expensive one)
I'd phrase it like this - and offer that (respectfully) you really don't want to be feeling any sort of regret or have any negative feelings about the car. You want it to be a happy place not an uncomfortable place 
bryce
MCAD
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How cavalier you are with my money. Do you work for the government?
A custom seat or just getting the current one modified is cheaper. Considering how many complaints I now hear about how uncomfortable most new cars are, seems that fixing the one thing I don't like is better than throwing away the whole thing and buying a car which I don't like, but which is comfortable.
bryce wrote: you really don't want to be feeling any sort of regret or have any negative feelings about the car.
Isn't that the definition of being polyannish?
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Are you suggesting you should just "harden up" ?
I'd say - stuff that - if you buy a new car you should enjoy it
I'd also reject your assertion I'm being cavalier with your money. One might suggest "cavalier" would be buying a brand new car instead of a second hand one.
However its your car - so you choose what you want to do. You asked for an opinion on what to do about your car and I offered my opinion and the reasons why
Bryce
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modified 3-Nov-13 20:13pm.
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bryce wrote: Are you suggesting you should just "harden up" ?
Huh? I said it was cheaper to change the one thing I didn't like than spend an endless amount of money on the sisyphean task of finding the perfect car. (I had a neighbor who claimed his car was perfect, and then bought a new one and told me why the previous one was crap.)
bryce wrote:
I'd say - stuff that - if you buy a new car you should enjoy it
I do enjoy it, save for one issue. I'd rather fix that than buy a car which I don't enjoy, but which does that one issue right (which, after talking to a lot of people, is highly dubious due to, as I said, the NHTSA changing the standards for seats.)
I reject your rejection of my assertion that you're being cavalier with my money.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: I reject your rejection of my assertion that you're being cavalier with my money. |
well lets test that rejection assterion by your giving me some of your money to be cavalier with
Bryce
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Only if you're Nigerian; I don't trust anyone else.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: The headrest leans forward at a crazy angle
That's so that the traffic-light cams can get a good picture for the NSA database.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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VS2013 Premium (Ultimate RTM is not available on DreamSpark yet  )
I will keep VS2012 installed as well.
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Off to the pub.
Gin time!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Funny - I predict your evening will end with that phrase as well! 
Dalek: "More gin!"
Barkeep: "I think you've had enough, sir."
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Same sh_t, different (Fri)day.
BDF
The internet makes dumb people dumber and clever people cleverer.
-- PaulowniaK
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I was duped this morning by a fake email, with horrible consequences...unleashing a Trojan that blocked access to any application, claiming to be a virus protection suite...can't remember the name. I am hoping that the Kaspersky Rescue disk will save my bacon. The email claimed to be from WhatsApp and said I had a voicemail. I just got my first smartphone a couple of days ago, and just yesterday signed into the Microsoft store to see what was available and figured the email was the result of that action. I even went as far as Googling the name of the app/company to see if it was legit. What I failed to notice was the last search result on the first page describing it as possible malware! What a nice way to spend a Friday morning!  'and I didn't even see it coming'
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Oh dear....
If I get emails that can possibly be relating to something genuine, I always visit the site directly and not via links. Never trust anything that appears in your mailbox!
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Oops!
Well, they say it's a good way to learn - you won't do that again, now will you?
So some good came of it...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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At my work, the company periodically sends out phishing e-mails internally. We have been told that if we open the link of the next one, we will have a personal conversation with a VP...
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Would the conversation cover entrapment?
BDF
The internet makes dumb people dumber and clever people cleverer.
-- PaulowniaK
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Send one to the VP and see what happens, get the link to show something like a picture of a monkey reading the original email warning about opening phishing emails and seeing the VP.
Actually on second thoughts best not do that.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Got a legitimate email from a government agency, after our CIO pulled it out of the mailstore, as I had deleted it as junk. 
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