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I went to visit the Element at the dealership, and was very happy with what i saw. I will most likely be buying one within the next couple of months, or when my current car breaks down, whichever comes first.
Overall it was great. Leg room was a little tight driving (I'm 6'5), but not to the point of being uncomfortable.
The biggest problem i saw was this:
I was kneeling on the spare tire cover, trying to put the back seats up from the rear. My knee was just to the left of the handle for the spare cover. As I put all my body weight on that knee (I'm 250 lbs), I heard a cracking sound. When the dealer and i took the cover off to look at it, we noticed that the plastic crossbars on the bottom side of the cover had cracked. I'm pretty dissapointed in this. Has anybody else experienced this?
I'm thinking if I do buy an element, i'm going to have a diamond-plate cover custom made to replace the plastic one...
Overall it was great. Leg room was a little tight driving (I'm 6'5), but not to the point of being uncomfortable.
The biggest problem i saw was this:
I was kneeling on the spare tire cover, trying to put the back seats up from the rear. My knee was just to the left of the handle for the spare cover. As I put all my body weight on that knee (I'm 250 lbs), I heard a cracking sound. When the dealer and i took the cover off to look at it, we noticed that the plastic crossbars on the bottom side of the cover had cracked. I'm pretty dissapointed in this. Has anybody else experienced this?
I'm thinking if I do buy an element, i'm going to have a diamond-plate cover custom made to replace the plastic one...