# Ideas to reduce the price of car repairs?

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/ideas-to-reduce-the-price-of-car-repairs/194582>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [March 20, 2024, 10:21pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ideas-to-reduce-the-price-of-car-repairs/194582 "2024-03-20T22:21:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 7:52pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ideas-to-reduce-the-price-of-car-repairs/194582/101 "2024-04-07T19:52:06Z")

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Most vehicle’s bucket seats seem really comfortable to me. I don’t think I’d want to sit in one to watch TV in the living room though. The thing that makes them comfortable for driving — they hold you firmly in place – would make it hard to get up and make a peanut-butter sandwich and sit back down before the commercial ends.

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**Author:** ![Clueless33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dbc845/32.png) [@Clueless33](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Clueless33)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 8:04pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ideas-to-reduce-the-price-of-car-repairs/194582/102 "2024-04-07T20:04:30Z")

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> [@George\_San\_Jose1](#):
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> The thing that makes them comfortable for driving — they hold you firmly in place

Exactly this. When going around corners, I’m held firmly and securely , and don’t ever feel like I’m falling out of the seat.

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**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/48514_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 9:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ideas-to-reduce-the-price-of-car-repairs/194582/103 "2024-04-07T21:15:06Z")

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> [@George\_San\_Jose1](#):
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> Most vehicle’s bucket seats seem really comfortable to me. I don’t think I’d want to sit in one to watch TV in the living room though

While you have seen me trash my POS '74 Volvo many times, I do have to say that both the brakes and the seats were excellent. Back in the '60s and '70s, Volvos were one of the few makes with seats that were totally-correct in an Orthopedic sense.

At school, the Metal Shop teacher got a front seat from a junked/wrecked '70s era Volvo, and he fabricated a really nice swivel base for it. He used it as his deskchair at work, and–without doubt–it was the most comfortable desk chair in the building.

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