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Cairo94507
post May 20 2021, 08:28 AM
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Hi everyone- Problem solved. So my driver's seat is giving me grief. If I slide the seat forward, to vacuum or put something behind it then I can't get it to slide back without getting a long skinny screwdriver and sticking it into the track to lift a silver piece of spring metal up to go over what appears to be a stud welded to the actual seat track. I never had this issue in any of my other 914's. I tried to take a picture of the stud that sticks up. It appears to belong on the seat track, not like it was added by a PO. What is the deal here? How do I get my seat to slide like it should w/o getting locked up on this stud?


You can see it sticking up (blurry) better int he bottom photo:
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post May 20 2021, 09:23 AM
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Sounds like one of two things. First, there is a handle at the front of the rails that is used to move the seat forward and backwards. You lift up on that handle (which lifts the tang you mentioned) so the seat can move. If you have that handle then perhaps the seat rails got switched and it’s on the wrong side of the seat.
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post May 20 2021, 03:21 PM
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@Rob-O - So yeah, I have the handle on the seat for the adjuster. But you raised an interesting point about the rails betting switched. I was not even sure that was possible but now I will pull the seat out and see what I can see.

Any other thoughts about this issue?

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post May 20 2021, 08:45 PM
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QUOTE(Cairo94507 @ May 20 2021, 02:21 PM) *

@Rob-O - So yeah, I have the handle on the seat for the adjuster. But you raised an interesting point about the rails betting switched. I was not even sure that was possible but now I will pull the seat out and see what I can see.

Any other thoughts about this issue?



The rails are definitely side specific.
So start there.
Perhaps you do have them flip flopped.
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post May 20 2021, 08:59 PM
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Both seat handles should be on the inside by the center tunnel.
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post May 20 2021, 09:06 PM
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the rail with the spring is off 180 on the seat. the spring is a catch that keeps the seat from sliding too far forward to pin you into the steering wheel in the event of a bad frontal crash.
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post May 20 2021, 10:04 PM
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@cairo94507 ah, jeez! I wrote that reply without even looking at who posted it! Given your time here I should’ve known you would know about the adjuster handle! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

But the rails being on the wrong side of the seat? Hope that is your easy fix answer, buddy! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) When I restored the bases on my car and had the seats recovered (Autobahn in San Diego) I installed them on the wrong sides initially.
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post May 21 2021, 07:10 AM
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Excellent. This is just another example of why the World is the best! This weekend I will pull the seat and see what I can do to remedy that issue. Thanks a lot everyone. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
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post May 21 2021, 01:54 PM
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QUOTE(Chris914n6 @ May 20 2021, 08:06 PM) *

the rail with the spring is off 180 on the seat. the spring is a catch that keeps the seat from sliding too far forward to pin you into the steering wheel in the event of a bad frontal crash.

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I'd have to look to be 100% sure but I think you can actually mount the spring side 180 and when it's backwards it does weird things like let you slide off the rails forward but makes you shim it up to push it back, the opposite of its intended function.

I'd swapped in Konig seats in the /4 long ago and had this issue, pretty sure it was easy as flipping the one rail the correct direction.... but I could be nuts too (IMG:style_emoticons/default/w00t.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/screwy.gif)
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post May 21 2021, 02:20 PM
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@eric9144 - And that is exactly what it is doing. I will hopefully fix that Sunday. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
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post May 23 2021, 03:31 PM
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Problem solved. Flipped the outer driver's seat track 180 and that solved the problem. Now the seat does not come off the track but it will slide all the way forward and back like it should. One less item on the list. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
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post May 24 2021, 03:26 PM
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QUOTE(Cairo94507 @ May 23 2021, 02:31 PM) *

Problem solved. Flipped the outer driver's seat track 180 and that solved the problem. Now the seat does not come off the track but it will slide all the way forward and back like it should. One less item on the list. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

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Awesome!
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post May 26 2021, 05:09 AM
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Sounds like you have that seat track on backwards. Will only allow it to slide back so far. Try taking that side off and turning it around.
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post May 26 2021, 07:00 AM
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Yes, that was the problem. All good now. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
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post May 27 2021, 02:50 PM
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Glad to hear it’s resolved. It’s great when posters circle back around and let everyone know how it was resolved. It’ll help someone in the future!
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