Originally Posted by cycleboy (Post 1357832)

Tried a few searches and didn't turn up anything about this, so here's my thoughts on something I discovered today. I'd call this an issue I'd like to solve.

I've had my car for ~7 mos. and often times on the highway my right arm ends up sitting on the tunnel behind the e-brake and the left hand is on the wheel. This puts my left elbow on the driver's side door armrest.

I noticed today that there's a bit of a divot in that armrest from my elbow. I moved my arm for most of the drive home to see if it went back to normal, but it didn't. I'll check again tomorrow.

My guess is the padding is thin on the doors and not very high density, so it doesn't take much to permanently dent it and therefore make it not really padding anymore.

So my question is whether anyone has done anything to that area to put in thicker or higher density padding that might be a little more comfortable and longer lasting?

Originally Posted by cycleboy (Post 1360260)

I was thinking more about pulling off what's there and replacing the foam with either much higher density foam or maybe a gel. I haven't looked into how hard it is to pull the stock ones out to do something like this. As far as I've seen so far there aren't any aftermarket ones that offer more/stiffer padding that might stay padded longer.

Originally Posted by cycleboy (Post 1363068)

Cool, that's kind of what I had in mind as I have my eye on their various keen pads and other alcantara goodies. I figured someone who sells those types of products could do it, just wasn't sure about the ease of removal.