Re: 90q squeak squeak?

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <l03020901b33e913dc793@[194.134.104.104]> Tom Nas writes:

> Mine makes exactly the same noise, whereas my previous '88 80 was
> near-silent (totally silent actually, until I had the windscreen replaced
> by a mobile screen fitter. Stupid idea.). The creak in the driver's seat
> backrest is driving me bonzo, actually. I've tried to straighten the
> badly-bent seatback without much success, there seems to be little rigidity
> and lots of play in the construction. These seats, while pretty much
> identical to my 80's, seem very weak in construction.

It does appear that Team Doorhandle had their summer holidays in the
woods around Recaro.

There is a generic fault in Recaro seats of this vintage, in that the
welds at the top corners are pre-destined to fail.  The chief symptom
is a violent squeak when the shoulders are pressed back into the seat
and wriggled from side to side.

Unfortunately the only solution is to strip the seat back _completely_
and weld the joints back up, adding a fillet of metal to relieve the
strain.  Once you look at the geometry around this weld, it's no
surprise that it fails.

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