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Glad to hear. My previous had an issue with the passenger seat. I didn't what the issue at first. Just that one morning the car would not start. Nothing, not even a click from the start. When I hooked a new battery, I heard some cyclic clicking. Every few seconds you could hear it. It took a minute to locate its origin. It turns out, the seat was jammed too far back on its bracket. It kept trying to move (clicking sound). When I manually pushed to forward / rearward adjuster, it freed up. No more clicking and no more dead battery. As long as the seat was only about 98% fully back, all was good. Not the same as your situation, just commiserating.
Good point. I’m not sure what I did! I’m supplying power with a new 12V battery. The seat is on the ground while testing.
I think moving the seat around caused one of the motors to lift the seat. This allowed me to enough room to remove the motor that controls the forward & back adjustment.
From there I could see the motor worked fine for “forward” but is dead for “backward”. I’m using a new switch so that’s not the issue.
I ordered a new motor to see if it will move in both directions. If not, then the memory seat module is probably bad.
Now here is where it gets sketchy. The other two motors control the up/down of the front and rear of the seat.
I can get the seat raised front and back to the max, but it won’t lower back down unless I swap the motor plugs, then I can lower the front and back down all the way.
This is where I’m led to believe something in the seat module is telling the new switch not to allow a reverse action, like the forward/back motor issue.
I’ll know more once I get the new motor for more testing.
Need Help Manually Moving Seats
