What did you do today ?
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2018 7:07 am
I’ve had a few things bug me since buying the car 6 months ago
So today as it’s sunny I got the ratchets out!
Drivers seat... if you held the front of the seat it lifted. Loose and rattled.
Using the button on the side lifted the front right of the seat so it tilted!
So following the remove seat instructions hooked the bigger out.
There are 4 13mm nuts holding the base of the seat down on welded
Threads. My left hand thread had snapped off the bottom of the seat 😩
Soooo I stripped the seat back and pulled the foam up and will some large washers on the inside used a new bolt to drop down and bolt to the lifter.
Seat out, vacuumed and shampood the carpet.
Replaced in reverse order. The wiring is a bit fiddly to clip back on the side
Of the inner metal work, all fixed and solid with front seat lifting straight.
Second job again involving the passenger seat.
Again hooked it out ! Since having the car ever turn or bump there
Was a rattle under the carpet.... so with carpet out I stripped back the carpet to reveal the air vent tubing. Unscrewed and removed, tipped up to find
60 pence in coins and a pen! The coins shook out but the pen took a bit longer
So shrapnel free was all put back together.
Both seats got a good white greasing on the moving parts
And wires checked before refitting.
Job done for a sunny UK day 😀
So today as it’s sunny I got the ratchets out!
Drivers seat... if you held the front of the seat it lifted. Loose and rattled.
Using the button on the side lifted the front right of the seat so it tilted!
So following the remove seat instructions hooked the bigger out.
There are 4 13mm nuts holding the base of the seat down on welded
Threads. My left hand thread had snapped off the bottom of the seat 😩
Soooo I stripped the seat back and pulled the foam up and will some large washers on the inside used a new bolt to drop down and bolt to the lifter.
Seat out, vacuumed and shampood the carpet.
Replaced in reverse order. The wiring is a bit fiddly to clip back on the side
Of the inner metal work, all fixed and solid with front seat lifting straight.
Second job again involving the passenger seat.
Again hooked it out ! Since having the car ever turn or bump there
Was a rattle under the carpet.... so with carpet out I stripped back the carpet to reveal the air vent tubing. Unscrewed and removed, tipped up to find
60 pence in coins and a pen! The coins shook out but the pen took a bit longer
So shrapnel free was all put back together.
Both seats got a good white greasing on the moving parts
And wires checked before refitting.
Job done for a sunny UK day 😀