[s-cars] Removing an S4 seat when the fore-aft motor is fried.

[chris chambers]

If you have access to the motor can you swap in a good motor?


--- David Forgie <forgied at shaw.ca> wrote:

> This on behalf of Gabriel Caldwell who is busy stripping rear-ended
> pearl on black 93 S4.  I was helping him yesterday when he hit a
> problem:  The rear window of the car was smashed in the accident and
> there was water in the right rear passenger footwell.  The front
> passenger seat mechanicals must also have been flooded because the
> fore-aft motor seems to be dead (all the other ones work).  The
> problem is without that motor functioning, it seems impossible to get
> the seat out because you can't move it back (or forward) to expose
> the bolts that hold the seat to the floor.  I figured out how to
> remove two screws that hold the seat to the seat frame (part of the
> tilt system) and was able to tilt the entire seat back to expose the
> dead motor.  At Gabriel's suggestion, I swapped the power connections
> from a known to be good motor to the dead motor but nothing happened,
> i.e. its the motor.  
> 
> Are there any manual means of moving the seat forward or backwards? 
> There is a sawzall solution but that really only gets the seat out
> the car and does not solve the problem (for resale).
> 
> TIA
> _______________________________________________
> S-CAR-List mailing list
> S-CAR-List at audifans.com
> http://www.audifans.com/mailman/listinfo/s-car-list
> 


Make April 15th just another day http://www.fairtax.org


__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com