Loose Seat
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Loose Seat
My drivers seat was functioning fine and felt great, then out of the blue the seat feels loose. the bottom will move fore and aft a little bit when I brake and when I accelerate. Has anyone run across this before. I did search, and found lots of information for the C5 seats but very little for the C4.
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My drivers seat was functioning fine and felt great, then out of the blue the seat feels loose. the bottom will move fore and aft a little bit when I brake and when I accelerate. Has anyone run across this before. I did search, and found lots of information for the C5 seats but very little for the C4.
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My drivers seat was functioning fine and felt great, then out of the blue the seat feels loose. the bottom will move fore and aft a little bit when I brake and when I accelerate. Has anyone run across this before. I did search, and found lots of information for the C5 seats but very little for the C4.
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I did pull the bottom cushion, checked what could, the movement is happening between the two sliding rails, there does not seem to be much I can do about it though. If the seat is most of the way back the seat bottom is solid, no movement at all. I'm 6'2" but I prefer to be closer to the pedals than some folks, so where I keep the seat is where the two rails have some distance between them. All bolts are tight, to look deeper into the rails to see if there is a broken wheel or something in there I would need to remove the seat. I am having too much fun driving the car to remove the seat!@!! The other thing is that the drivers seat back does not appear to lock so I think I am feeling that more than anything else, the seat back moving forward slightly when I brake.
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I did pull the bottom cushion, checked what could, the movement is happening between the two sliding rails, there does not seem to be much I can do about it though. If the seat is most of the way back the seat bottom is solid, no movement at all. I'm 6'2" but I prefer to be closer to the pedals than some folks, so where I keep the seat is where the two rails have some distance between them. All bolts are tight, to look deeper into the rails to see if there is a broken wheel or something in there I would need to remove the seat. I am having too much fun driving the car to remove the seat!@!! The other thing is that the drivers seat back does not appear to lock so I think I am feeling that more than anything else, the seat back moving forward slightly when I brake.
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My 96 driver's seat did the same thing, looking at it I couldn't see any way that I could fix it myself. My passenger seat was fine, I know there are companies that rebuild the seat bases but what I ended up doing was just pulled both seats out and swapped the bases. It wasn't all that hard to do, just took a little time.
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My 96 driver's seat did the same thing, looking at it I couldn't see any way that I could fix it myself. My passenger seat was fine, I know there are companies that rebuild the seat bases but what I ended up doing was just pulled both seats out and swapped the bases. It wasn't all that hard to do, just took a little time.
Also for anyone else doing this in the future, the clip on the bottom seat cushion is a lot easier to get back in place with a helper to push the cushion and clip low enough to get a screwdriver under it so you get the clip back on.
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My 96 driver's seat did the same thing, looking at it I couldn't see any way that I could fix it myself. My passenger seat was fine, I know there are companies that rebuild the seat bases but what I ended up doing was just pulled both seats out and swapped the bases. It wasn't all that hard to do, just took a little time.
pull the top off and best to have a helper so you don't scrach things up