3 Best MCombo Lift Chairs Compared

These chairs share more than they differ on: the same counter-balanced lift design, the same 2-year warranty naming the mechanism, electrics, upholstery, cushions and frame, the same tool-free assembly in 15 to 20 minutes, and the same two-box delivery. Once you set that aside, only three things actually differ.

• How far it reclines. 7040 and 7287 stop at 140°, a lounging angle. The 7890 reaches 165°. If anyone will sleep in the chair, this is the only question that matters.
• Heat and massage, or deliberately not. 7040 and 7890 have both. The 7287 has neither, on purpose.
• Height. 7040 and 7287 state a fit from 5'1". The 7890 starts at 5'3". Two inches sounds trivial and is not — a seat that is too deep leaves the feet dangling and the lower back unsupported.

Only the 7040 listing states a TUV certified actuator. The actuator is the powered arm that pushes the whole chair up, so it carries the user's full weight on every single use — and when a lift chair fails, that is almost always the part that goes.

It rarely fails dramatically. The chair simply stops lifting, usually just outside the warranty period, and what remains is a heavy recliner that no longer does the one job it was bought for. Against that, an independent certification on the load-bearing part is worth more than any feature further down the listing.

This is not a claim that the other two are unsafe — only that their listings do not state a certification, and where a manufacturer has one it usually says so.

This phrase appears throughout the lift chair category and it is the single most misleading thing in these listings. Infinite position describes the adjustment being stepless — that you can stop at any angle rather than two or three presets. It says nothing about how far the chair goes.

A chair can be infinite position and still stop at 140°. The number to look for is the maximum recline angle in the specifications, and if a listing does not publish one, treat that as an answer in itself. For genuine lay-flat sleeping you want a stated 180°, and none of these three reach it — our main recliner roundup covers a chair that does.

Both the 7040 and 7890 include a lumbar heating point, and for a stiff lower back it genuinely helps. But if there is diabetes, peripheral neuropathy, or any reduced sensation, do not use it — the warning that something has become too hot may simply never arrive.

Where that applies, the 7287 stops being the budget compromise and becomes the correct choice: it has no heating element to forget about, and no risk of someone else switching it on.

All three arrive in two boxes, delivered to the kerb rather than into the room, and the boxes can arrive on different days. Assembly itself is the easy part — all three state tool-free setup in 15 to 20 minutes — but moving the boxes is not, and it is hardest for exactly the person who needs the chair. Arrange help before ordering.

None of the three publishes a weight capacity anywhere in its listing. If the user is over roughly 300 lb, that silence matters and a chair rated for the load is the right purchase instead — see our bariatric lift chair guide, where capacity, seat width and height sizing all change together.

One shared safety note if grandchildren visit: powered recliner mechanisms generate substantial closing force, and the CPSC has recalled powered recliners over entrapment. Keep the gap between seat and raised legrest at five inches or less, keep the remote out of reach, and never let children play on or under the chair.