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

[Tom Green]

I'm wondering if some salvage yard guys have the answer, since they  
must have some cars that they can't power up and move the seat, but  
somehow still remove them
without damage.  Or perhaps they sawzall the car floor and not the seat.

I believe the A6 deluxe comfort seat base with power and heat is  
interchangeable with the S6 seat base.  The entire seat can be  
swapped  between cars so I suspect
the upper seat parts will fit on either base and thus an easy to  
acquire piece from those many A6 seats with ripped upholstery, etc.  
could be used for the cost of removal.
I would think the S4/100 would have the same relationship if not  
interchangeable with the A6/S6.

A 3 or 4" hole saw  or sawzall from underneath might give access to  
the bolt from the bottom and allow you to drill it out.  :-)  .

Sawzall the front cockpit section and sell it as a unit.  :-)       
Hook it up to Playstation for the best video game in town.  :-)

United Airlines solution for a CV440 flight simulator was the cockpit  
section of UA "Blue Goose" conveniently left undamaged while pilot  
destroyed the remainder of the aircraft on landing.  The original  
blue United colors were still on the exterior visible if you looked  
in the housing.It was at Flight Safety at LaGuardia last opportunity  
I had to "fly" in it.

Tom

-----Original Message -----
> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 10:42:43 -0800
> From: David Forgie <forgied at shaw.ca>
> Subject: [s-cars] Removing an S4 seat when the fore-aft motor is
> 	fried.
> To: s-car-list at audifans.com
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> 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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