The front seats have weight sensors. Most probably when you leaned on the other side, the driver seat sensor detected the movement and some safety feature implemented in the software activated all this. Nice!
I just bought a 2012 FFE and I noticed all 4 tires have some small cracks in the rubber near the rim edge. It looks like the rubber is very old. The tires have 1012 for manufacture date, that means first week of march 2012. My dealer says is nothing to worry about but I'm not swallowing this. I...
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I don't know if you understand french but can translate with google. Anyway there are technical terms and the same in any language. The price is good. The dif between the two is the connector. One has and the other no.