What's the most comfortable seats for daily/long distance driving?

Hi All I use my 2002 996 for daily driving and love to take it on long hauls, I dont track the car so that's not an issue. I am looking for real nice comfortable seats so I can drive 600+ miles without being in pain. The new 2014 911 seats are sweet but I cant afford to trade up. Has anyone done a seat swap for the same reason? Can anyone point me in the right direction?

What seats you have in now? The fully powered, heated, with lumbar support and supple leather would be the best factory choice in all DD conditions that would plug and play IMO. The adjustable lumbar is the key IMO to long distance comfort. The adaptive 997 seats are great too but they're not plug and play.

Both the seat in my Boxster and my Turbo are comfortable enough to allow me to drive 600 or more miles in a day. That's 10 hours at least and in some cases 12 or more hours. All I have found helps is a couple of small pillows. One to jam down between the driver's door and seat to support my left arm and the other on on the center console to support the right arm so my hands do not have to grip the wheel so tight to support the weight of my arms, which is tiring. My hands grip the wheel at about the 4 and 8 positions rather than the 2 and 10 positions. I found my eyes get tired before my body does.

I have sport seats in one, which are better for DEs; the other car has the comfort seats, which are better for daily driving. The sports seats are certainly acceptable for daily use, but have far fewer adjustments that improve longer distance driving.

I've got the comfort seat option with power lumbar in my C4S. They are great for long drives and for a daily driver. They do leave a little to be desired on the track compared to sport seats, but that doesn't seem to be an issue in this case.

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Hey Mac try diming the I.P. lights at night, works for me.

I drove a 996 C4s with supple leather seats 350 miles & exchanged it for a 996tt with standard full leather seats. The supple seats are much softer & more comfortable for a long drive.

I'm with Macster. I have done 10 hour+ sessions in the stock Boxster and 996 seats, and they treat my back better than the seats in my X5 did.

My supple leather seats with the lumbar support are quite comfortable, I just wish I had about an inch more headroom without needing to lean the seat back to homeboy status.

It's a different answer for different people. I have lower back pain and personally find that more heavily bolstered sport seats tend to keep me comfortable for longer periods of time. While I like the full power memory seats in my 996, I would love to find an affordably priced set of used Recaros to install at some point. My old S8 had Recaros in it that were an absolute dream.

While we're on the topic of seats... For the people who have swapped their seats out for GT3 seats, did you gain any headroom? And are the seats comfortable for longer trips?

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Ditto. My sport seats are fantastic support for my C4S DD commute of 140 mile round trip.

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I have a set in my Audi TT... I am actually quite comfortable in them. Drove from Austin Texas to GA, All over TX (3 hours to Houston, 4 hours to Dallas)... The seats are lower than stock Audi TT seats, so it gained headroom in the Audi... but I am not a tall guy (5'8")

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If you mean the Recaro one-piece seats, my car has them. I recently drove the car for 4 straight days across the continent with only a minor lumbar cushion customization (a 1/4" closed cell foam sheet folded in half and slid under the existing leather back cushion). They're about as good as a street seat can be in terms of support, provided they fit you. As for headroom, yes, you get a little more when the seat is forward. It's roughly the same (within an inch) with the seat all the way back. I always remove the bottom cushion when I wear a helmet in the car, for what it's worth.

Recaro A8s

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Done that already. And the brightness of the NAV unit is way down too. It is the eye work to constantly view near and far. Not helping that I got "cheap" my last eye glasses and didn't want to pay out of pocket for the anti-glare and other coatings that my previous pair of glasses had. I have the old sunglasses and even though they are not the same prescription and as dark they are easier on my eyes than the new sunglasses. I lost the old pair of clear glasses. Anyhow, I'm due to get my eyes checked again and I might get new glasses with all the anti-glare stuff, maybe even polarized lenses at least in the sunglasses.

6ft4 here. The original sport seats gave me back ache, even after relatively short drives, something I have not experienced in any other car. It even came to the point that I was planning to trade the car in. I now have bought and mounted 997 adaptive sports seats and it is a night and day difference, much more support and no more back ache. Certainly not plug and play but for me definitely worth the effort.

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I experienced this too until I retrofitted adjustable lumbar bladders which remedied it.

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+996 . What may be BEST for one, could be HELL for another. With theat said, the OEM seat/ergo works just fine for me. FWIW, I am 70 inches tall with a 30-inch inseam, in good health/shape (core and back are fine) So to the OP, what are your "stats?"

7 years I drove my, now sold 84 Carrera, coupe, cross country, from Fl., had sport seats , found them very conf. 2 years ago did similar in a Boxster S 03 , also many 12 h days, no aches. Now in a lumbar adj. C4 996, keep re adjusting the lumbar and seat angle , too many choices (: but still 10h are no problem ( I think I did find the right for me adj finally (: Its just so much pleasure and an adrenaline rush to drive the 911's for me.

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One of the best tips I've gotten on RL: Universal Inflatable Bladder Universal Inflatable Bladder ....

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Yup and surprisingly very easy to retrofit as you can just pull off the back seat cushion literally. Less than 5 min per side to do. I consider this my top 3 mod for me personally.