LOL... it sounds like the splines on the power lift mechanism have stripped out... you can tear it apart and re align them but its a PITA... and you might have to tack weld the arm back on as IIRC its a press fit...
-----Original Message----- From: Deutsch Sport Tuning [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 5:49 PM To: Darron Schneider Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Leaning seat PO had a fat girlfriend maybe? ;)P Jay www.DSTRacing.4T.com Home of the ULTIMATE sport shift linkages ----- Original Message ----- From: Darron Schneider <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 2:16 PM Subject: Leaning seat > Hey all. I got curious this weekend about the pass seat in my car. It's > one of those nice recaros with the big bolsters and power height adjustment. > The weird thing about the pass seat is that it leans inboard quite a bit. I > removed the seat from the car and didn't see anything wrong with the tracks. > I then removed the frame/base from the seat. > > The seat is nice and square but the frame is funny. The little "trailing > arms" that go to the tracks are not at the same height, in fact the left > side is about an inch lower than the right. They're attached to a tube that > rotates to effect the height adjustment and I'm wondering if the tube is > actually 2 or 3 pieces that might be splined together and possibly assembled > wrong. The welds look fine and I don't see any obvious damage. All the > little plastic glides are intact too. I didn't want to try disassembling > the arms since there's these torsion springs that I might not be able to > reattach. > > Has anyone ever seen this before? I'm open to suggestions. > > Darron Schneider > 89 Jetta GLI 16V > > _____________ > List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com > To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message > See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com > Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org > --------------------------------------------------------------- NetZero Platinum Only $9.95 per month! Sign up in September to win one of 30 Hawaiian Vacations for 2! http://my.netzero.net/s/signup?r=platinum&refcd=PT97 _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org
