Driver’s seat possessed!
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Instructor
Joined: Nov 2007
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From: Savannah GA
Driver’s seat possessed!
Last night on the way home my driver’s seat just started adjusting itself on its own!! It would move forward about an inch at a time and eventually my knees would be touching the dash and I would have to reach down and push the button to move it all the way back. The wife and I were getting a good laugh out of it………..but has anyone ever had this happen to them? I tried to re-index the seat but that didn’t work.
Drifting
Joined: May 2000
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From: Palos Verdes Peninsula California
I have never had that particular thing happen, but I have had problems with my memory settings on my seat not always working correctly. I recently had cause to disconnect my battery, and when I reconnected it and redid all my settings, my memory problems disappeared.
If you continue to have this problem give disconnecting the battery a try.
If you continue to have this problem give disconnecting the battery a try.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Mar 2010
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From: Newnan Georgia
I had the same exact problem... went on for a couple weeks off and on until I finally got tired of it and pulled the seat to figure out what was going on. I repositioned the control box and harnesses a little farther back under the seat and resecured the frame side of the harness where it comes out of the carpet... haven't had a problem since. 
The seat is pretty easy to pull, only 4 nuts (2 front, 2 rear). The connector for the main harness is a little interesting, you rotate the purple lock handle 180 degrees and then you can just pull the connector apart. The seat heater connectors have plastic pins that hold the connectors together, just pull them out and take the connector apart like most normal connectors.
A helpful tip is using a long extension on your ratchet for the back seat mounting nuts. I've got a 3 footer that I had used for some tranny work on my Z28, it worked great.
If you don't have a long one, just put a couple together to make a longer one.
One last thing, the seat is heavy!
be careful around the door jamb, might want to put a towel or something down to protect it.
D
The seat is pretty easy to pull, only 4 nuts (2 front, 2 rear). The connector for the main harness is a little interesting, you rotate the purple lock handle 180 degrees and then you can just pull the connector apart. The seat heater connectors have plastic pins that hold the connectors together, just pull them out and take the connector apart like most normal connectors.
A helpful tip is using a long extension on your ratchet for the back seat mounting nuts. I've got a 3 footer that I had used for some tranny work on my Z28, it worked great.
If you don't have a long one, just put a couple together to make a longer one.One last thing, the seat is heavy!
be careful around the door jamb, might want to put a towel or something down to protect it.D
Team Owner
Joined: Mar 2008
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From: Southern Utah
If you move the seat fore and aft on a regular basis, then I think this implies a connector issue as is stated in posts above. If you never move the seat, then it's probably something else.
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Instructor
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 194
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From: Savannah GA
I had the same exact problem... went on for a couple weeks off and on until I finally got tired of it and pulled the seat to figure out what was going on. I repositioned the control box and harnesses a little farther back under the seat and resecured the frame side of the harness where it comes out of the carpet... haven't had a problem since.
The seat is pretty easy to pull, only 4 nuts (2 front, 2 rear). The connector for the main harness is a little interesting, you rotate the purple lock handle 180 degrees and then you can just pull the connector apart. The seat heater connectors have plastic pins that hold the connectors together, just pull them out and take the connector apart like most normal connectors.
A helpful tip is using a long extension on your ratchet for the back seat mounting nuts. I've got a 3 footer that I had used for some tranny work on my Z28, it worked great. If you don't have a long one, just put a couple together to make a longer one.
One last thing, the seat is heavy! be careful around the door jamb, might want to put a towel or something down to protect it.
D
The seat is pretty easy to pull, only 4 nuts (2 front, 2 rear). The connector for the main harness is a little interesting, you rotate the purple lock handle 180 degrees and then you can just pull the connector apart. The seat heater connectors have plastic pins that hold the connectors together, just pull them out and take the connector apart like most normal connectors.
A helpful tip is using a long extension on your ratchet for the back seat mounting nuts. I've got a 3 footer that I had used for some tranny work on my Z28, it worked great.
If you don't have a long one, just put a couple together to make a longer one.One last thing, the seat is heavy!
be careful around the door jamb, might want to put a towel or something down to protect it.D
