Need some help with seats

[dice2012]

Started working on repairing my comfort seats, just making sure everything was working. My passenger seat had seized on every part. Ended up spraying WD-40 everywhere in the mechanisms and got it moving, then painted lithium grease on everything that seemed to move. (Tried using lithium grease on the drivers seat, but the trim on the side next to the handbrake must have fallen out of alignment and now I can't move it without risking breaking the trim, so I'm gonna take the seat out to fix that) Then, I got under it and reconnected the wire to move it forward and back, but it seems that part of the clip to keep it in place has broken off, so I put it on sideways to hold it temporarily.
The passenger seat now reclines, raises, and moves forwards and back, but I still have to use a bit of force to get it to work, and the mechanism to allow it to recline/raise still sticks every now and then. Is there anything I can do about that? Would replacing the spring in the mechanism have anything to do with it, or should I just keep going with the grease? Also, is there anything specific I can use to secure the wire to move the seat forward and back? Or should I just put some sort of zip tie on it.
If it would help having pics I can try to link some when I get back to working on the car this weekend, hopefully my descriptions suffice though.

[roguetoaster]

Check the link for diagrams and part numbers. You need to remove the rust to make the situation better. You may be at the point where other seats are your best bet.

[dice2012]

Thanks for the help, I'll try that.

[cory58]

Definitely replace the 3 shocks if you haven't already. If they are dead, the seat will sometimes act like parts of the adjustment mechanism are not working correctly when they are really ok. I had that experience with my cabrio.

The comforts are always in less demand than the sports, so if you need to replace one it will hopefully be easy and relatively inexpensive. It's easy to switch over the cushions.

Cory

[Vincenze]

People dump comfort seats in perfect condition every day.
Seats are expensive to ship, though.
Look in local Facebook groups, or ask to ship just the mechanisms.

[dice2012]

After reading all the replies I think I'm just gonna hunt to find some same color comfort seats (or maybe if I feel the motivation I'll restore the extra sport seats I have and put those in). For now I'll just try to remember to not adjust anything on the seats and make them last as long as possible.
Thanks yall

[jeffnhiscars]

Late to this party..but redoing our comfort interior and will be selling a pair of pacific blue comfort seats from Alice (see thread below). They have new seat shocks and will be including the skins from the rear seat. Ask Corey58 what I know about seats lol

[Rey gunn]

Hey all. Does anyone know if the comfort seats and sport seats use the same rails? TIA for any info

[jeffnhiscars]

I sure hope so cause I'm about to do just that :)

[cory58]

Late to this party..but redoing our comfort interior and will be selling a pair of pacific blue comfort seats from Alice (see thread below). They have new seat shocks and will be including the skins from the rear seat. Ask Corey58 what I know about seats lol

I can confirm that Jeff knows a lot about seats, and everything else on E30s! I have his seat shocks in both my E30s and have his cabrio boot lid shocks still waiting for the manual top conversion on the cabrio. I even just got a pair of seat shocks from his successor (Ninestitch) for a 325is I'm flipping.

Cory

[jeffnhiscars]

Thanks Corey...and I just moved the rails from my comforts on to the newly dont support seats so yes that's a definite

and yes that's another exceptionally well done Ninestitch set of skins

[cory58]

Thanks Corey...and I just moved the rails from my comforts on to the newly dont support seats so yes that's a definite

and yes that's another exceptionally well done Ninestitch set of skins

Love the bolsters!