Re: 90q squeak squeak?

[Tom Nas <tnas@euronet.nl>]

quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne) wrote:

>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.

Thanks Phil, I'll just have to bite the bullet and disassemble the whole
shebang. Not something I'm looking forward to, but it'll have to come apart
for fixing the seat heaters anyway.

Tom