The drivers' seat that I picked up had a recline issue where when you pull the lever up to recline and then push the lever back to neutral, the seat back doesn't lock. I'd have to fiddle with the lever a bit to get it to lock again.
Not sure how common of an issue this is but my friends' sports also have the same issue, so decided to document the super simple fix in case it's useful to someone down the road.
These steps were done on comfort seats but should be exactly the same for sport seats.
With the help of these three tutorials, I took apart my seats. You DO NOT need to do this if you are only interested in this particular fix. You only need to take off the plastic mechanism covers (1 on each side).
There is a metal thing with teeth that moves when the seat reclines.
Look into where the arrow points
... and you'll see this:
The metal things beside the teeth (see arrows above) move out of the way to allow the seat to recline and then catch the teeth to lock the seat back into place. These metal pieces weren't moving nicely, so a little WD-40 in there did the trick. Do this on both sides of each seat.
Simple fix, and saves you the embarrassment of your seat back falling on your rear passenger.
Not sure how common of an issue this is but my friends' sports also have the same issue, so decided to document the super simple fix in case it's useful to someone down the road.
These steps were done on comfort seats but should be exactly the same for sport seats.
With the help of these three tutorials, I took apart my seats. You DO NOT need to do this if you are only interested in this particular fix. You only need to take off the plastic mechanism covers (1 on each side).
There is a metal thing with teeth that moves when the seat reclines.
Look into where the arrow points
... and you'll see this:
The metal things beside the teeth (see arrows above) move out of the way to allow the seat to recline and then catch the teeth to lock the seat back into place. These metal pieces weren't moving nicely, so a little WD-40 in there did the trick. Do this on both sides of each seat.
Simple fix, and saves you the embarrassment of your seat back falling on your rear passenger.
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