| Author | Message | ||
     Yo!Adrian (Adrian) Member Username: Adrian Post Number: 29 Registered: 05-2002 |
Looking to see if anybody can give me some idea how to fix the reclining option on my 97 SE7. All other options are operable, i.e. up/down, and tilt, in fact the seat will continue to recline, however I cannot get it to return to the upright position!! Fuse? Switch? Any help is appreciated, thanks DWeb members! Adrian | ||
| Glenn Guinto (Glenn) Senior Member Username: Glenn Post Number: 538 Registered: 02-2002 |
Adrian, My 99D1 does that from time to time. The switches are notorious for quirks. One option is to rebuild them. Usually the contacts have a habit of collecting dust and other contaminants hence, weakening the contact. Normally you can just wiggle them violently (short of ripping them out of the plate) and usually that works - this is what I do with mine  . Of course the proper way is either rebuilding them by dissambling the switches (make sure you do that in a contained shoe box as the parts are tiny) and cleaning them with some kind of solvent to remove the crap. Or just buy a replacement switch, they're the same ones as the Mercedes Benz switches. I think they are around $45 - $70 depending on where you get them. Good luck! Glenn YMMV | ||
| Yo!Adrian (Adrian) Member Username: Adrian Post Number: 31 Registered: 05-2002 |
Thanks Glen...I've have done exactly what you said, and have the switch sitting on my desk. Atlantic British sells 'em for $125, screw that...hopefully cleaning it out will fix it. Thank you again. Adrian | ||
| Carter Simcoe (Carter) Senior Member Username: Carter Post Number: 2187 Registered: 04-2002 |
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?s=41c6c1cd69fe7f84bfdb6ae7f49d7c0e &threadid=129798 | ||
| Yo!Adrian (Adrian) Member Username: Adrian Post Number: 32 Registered: 05-2002 |
I'm not sure I get it...? Originally posted by revor "Pull the cables out of the motors that make the seat go back and forth and hook them up to your drill motor move each side back a bit at a time till it's comfortable and leave it.... Then start saving for mastercrafts.... Oh yeah put the cables back when your done foir fear of being sloppy" | ||
| Carter Simcoe (Carter) Senior Member Username: Carter Post Number: 2198 Registered: 04-2002 |
Sounds like he is taking the battery for a cordless drill and touching to power wires for the seat to the contacts so they get a power source and move the seat. | ||
| Todd Rooker (Tryrook) New Member Username: Tryrook Post Number: 39 Registered: 12-2002 |
I haven't taken apart the power seats in my Disco, but in my old 3 Series Bimmer, I had the same problem. Can you hear the motor engage at all? Is there any noise when using the switch or just silence? In my case, I could hear the motor engage very briefly but the seat wouldn't move. Turned out to be a little plastic gear that had been eaten by the other metal gears...a brilliant piece of German engineering. Only place I could find a replacement was at the junkyard. BMW wanted $920 for a new seat frame (the smallest replacement component they sold that had the gear) and $700 in labor...all for a two cent gear. The other seat went a month later and the car went two weeks after that. |
