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

[David Forgie]

"Access" in this case is we can see it.  To actually be able to swap an known good motor in there
would be "challenging" to say the least. At this point I am not sure how the motors attach to their 
respective gear drives.  But that problem may have to be overcome if that seat is to be saved. 

----- Original Message -----
From: chris chambers <fastscirocco_2000 at yahoo.com>
Date: Sunday, November 11, 2007 12:27 pm
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Removing an S4 seat when the fore-aft motor is fried.
To: David Forgie <forgied at shaw.ca>, s-car-list at audifans.com

> 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
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