Rear seat

[Ross]

Before you go to all the touble I would suggest driving, and reversing a car so equipped. These things block rear vision a lot in most cars. MBs have a dash control to pop them down they are so in the way.

[nirvana19]

I think he got a look on the rear headrests on my car. Now of course he didn't reverse my car.. but I've never had any problems. The headrests aren't so big as when in the regular position a they only protrude a bit above the rear of the seat and aren't so wide. Also isn't one in the center. To be fair though I don't recall doing much reversing in the other E34s I've driven so they might be better, but I do know that my car as is has excellent visibility compared to most cars I've driven.

Also, were rear headrests available on US cars? I've never seen them on another E34 (I always look for them) but I just saw a 93 525i advertised which had rear headrests. I have a Canada car so I always though that was why, but was it actually just a rare option?

[Tiger]

No problem reversing on mine either. I retrofitted mine with all the parts from Bekkers Import. I had a deal on one of the headrest that they had leftover and just had to buy one new one at near dealer price. I think it still costed me about $200 or so. I remembered everything dealer cost would be over $350+.

[bubba966]

Also, were rear headrests available on US cars? I've never seen them on another E34 (I always look for them) but I just saw a 93 525i advertised which had rear headrests. I have a Canada car so I always though that was why, but was it actually just a rare option?

They were standard on US M5's. Options on the rest of the line as far as I know. I do know that when I was buying a new set of front springs at the dealer not so long ago there was an option of checking rear headrests or not on the spring table. Apparently they effect the weight balance of the car enough to effect which rear spring are on the car.

My car doesn't have 'em yet. Plan on it at some point. But I'm not expecting that I'll find a used pair in black Bison as the Bison leather was a rather rare interior option.