Broken Sport seat part II

[///Mtechnik88]

Wow, I'm still drooling from the last post's Evo sport cloth! Anyway, My seat has REALLy taken a downward turn to hell as the left side bolster has a bar protruding up to the leather (see the uneveness of the bolster in the picture). The entire left side doesn't want to latch onto adjustments (i.e; the moment I sit on the seat, it falls on that side). The seat will not recline UP past "gangsta-lean" mode, which I can't stand. It's a mess (see the picture)
I need to remove the seat and see what the hell is going on. Does anyone know what socket fits the 4 nuts holding the seat down?? I'll just have to use some luck & skill from there!

[Jordan]

17mm

[e30Matt]

When you remove the seat, be sure to tilt it forward by pushing down on the recline lever to gain access to the bolts in the rear. My friend and I fought the seats in my 325 for a good half hour before we remembered you could do that.

[Erick]

When you remove the seat, be sure to tilt it forward by pushing down on the recline lever to gain access to the bolts in the rear. My friend and I fought the seats in my 325 for a good half hour before we remembered you could do that.

sorry guys but.... :rofl:

common sense 1
you guys 0

j/k though..... I've been through similar situations :)

[e30Matt]

When you remove the seat, be sure to tilt it forward by pushing down on the recline lever to gain access to the bolts in the rear. My friend and I fought the seats in my 325 for a good half hour before we remembered you could do that.

sorry guys but.... :rofl:

common sense 1
you guys 0

j/k though..... I've been through similar situations :)

lol, yeah, we had a bit of a group brain fart on it... I was back there fighting to get a socket on them, my friend was pulling the seat forward, and then I just said... "wait, can't you tilt it forward with the... aw shiit... ," and then proceeded to tilt the seat forward and easily remove the bolts.

So really, it's
Common Sense: 2
Us: 0

[Nate325ic]

on my old eta I didn't even know the seats could go up, I spent 2 hours fighting and removing seats with them all the way down and it was a 4dr so I didn't even have the option of leaning htem forward :shock:

[///Mtechnik88]

Well, I just ripped the seat out and moved my passenger seat to replace my driver's seat, but only for the moment. The frame on the left side completely snapped and shot up through the bolster. I am going to see if I can find a welder who can weld it back into place. Pics in a sec...