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Jan 11, 2002 | 10:03 PM

Juliet

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Power Seats. Missing something here?

I just pulled off the bottom seat cushion and figured out what caused my hole in the side bolster. There's 2 things sticking up. One has sort of a nut hole on it (further outboard) and the other has room for something like a bolt to go through it. Should there be a cover over this? What has happened is that every time you sit in the seat your butt pushes on the inside flange piece which sticks up. It's rounded, but still managed to wear a hole through the side bolster. I almost wonder if there shouldn't be a cover over the top. Otherwise I'll get this thing repaired and it will only be a matter of time until it wears through again. :eek: Greg was thinking that maybe at one point the seat back piece broke and whomever replaced it, used a manual seat part, not the sport seat part, since this looks like some sort of attachment point for a manual adjuster or something.

Is this the factory supplied part for sport seats? Is this the wrong part? Is some sort of cover missing? I saw nothing in the service or parts manual diagraming this part.

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Jan 11, 2002 | 10:07 PM

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Re: Power Seats. Missing something here? (Juliet)

Nope its supposed to be there. The bottom frame is the same for a manual seat. It is common for the bolsters to wear, that is a high contact point when you are seating in the car and when getting in and out. The piece you pointed too just rests in the foam and won't wear the bolster out.
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Jan 11, 2002 | 10:11 PM

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Re: Power Seats. Missing something here? (snaketr)

Do you have the same thing in your sport seats then? I guess it's a bad design. :( Mine rested in the foam, and then after (well before) 108k miles wore through the foam, through the seat leather and caused a hole in the top side of the seat. I guess I'll see if Greg can weld up a metal cover or something to go over it so that it's not sticking straight up into the foam.

Jan 11, 2002 | 10:14 PM

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Re: Power Seats. Missing something here? (Juliet)

Yes it does, I would not weld anything over it though, just cut it off.

Jan 11, 2002 | 11:29 PM

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Re: Power Seats. Missing something here? (snaketr)

Greg came up with a good idea (knowing how I hate to change anything factory-like). That's to take one of those body spatulas, the hard rubber, only slightly flexible, but totally bullit and cut proof things, and glue it across the bottom of the seat cushion, right where that thing would be pushing up into the foam. Since the foam is already torn & slotted this would keep it from squishing up into it - hopefully. :)

On a related note - does anyone have any links to web sites with sport seat rebuild details? Or else did any of the mags cover this in the last year or two? My archives only go back that far. ;) Some of the functions on my seats don't work and if it's an easy fix ;) I might as well.... :p: Thanks!! ~Juliet

Jan 12, 2002 | 01:18 AM

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Re: Power Seats. Missing something here? (Juliet)

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On a related note - does anyone have any links to web sites with sport seat rebuild details? Or else did any of the mags cover this in the last year or two? My archives only go back that far. ;) Some of the functions on my seats don't work and if it's an easy fix ;) I might as well.... :p: Thanks!! ~Juliet

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http://www.corvettemagazine.com/2001...rack/seat1.asp

Jan 12, 2002 | 01:26 AM

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Re: Power Seats. Missing something here? (JonM)

Pricey little buggers ain't they? :D Is that the only fix for the rocking chair syndrome? :eek: Mine are functional in that it does the 6 motions OK. What's not working is all the air fill support things. I found one loose vacuum line when I took the seat bottom out.