'91 318i Interior cleanup and seat swap

[samfg92]

So the 318i I just bought had a pretty dicky drivers seat. It won't stay upright and just lays back all the time. So today after reading a few other posts about swapping the drivers and passengers seat, I decided to give it a go.

After taking both seats out I planned on vacuuming out under the rails as it was pretty filthy

Then I decided while I was at it I would remove all the centre console parts and give them a good clean up. Removing it all was a fairly simple process and didn't take long to get it all off, giving me more shit to vacuum up!

I gave the console parts a good cleanup with some spray cleaner and then wiped them down with some armour all wipes, and they came up looking pretty good

After all that was done I put all the console back together and started to put the seats in. I was about to bolt down the passenger seat in the drivers seat spot and realised the seatbelt clip was on the wrong side, so just a simple swap and they were in, everything worked fine :)


I'd be interested to know if anyone else has had the same problem with the seat giving out and whether there is a simple solution

[Cosmic Serpent]

my passengers seat was doing the same thing about 4 months ago, it was a simple fix pull the seat apart and clean and lube the mechanism. I was expecting to find something broken but it just had a bunch of crud in the mech. Hope its the same in your case.

[samfg92]

Oh really? That's handy! I'll pull it out tonight and see if its the same problem! I just had to do something about it because it was killing my back to drive leaning forward haha!