93 850 - Left half Power Driver seat malfunction <solved>

M4rinus · Post by **M4rinus** » 28 Apr 2014, 10:56

Hi guys,

I am having the weirdest thing.
The right half of my drivers seat responds normally to the controls.
The left side won't come up. If I go back down past where it's stuck and try to move it back up, it gets stuck there. If I go down further again, it will get stuck there. All the while the right side moves up without problem..... no problem only if you don't count the tweaked seat and that it's now so far back it's practically unusable.

I am not finding anything on this issue. I only found instructions for when the entire seat has problems.

Please help.

Post by **mecheng** » 28 Apr 2014, 11:18

M4rinus wrote:Hi guys,

I am having the weirdest thing.
The right half of my drivers seat responds normally to the controls.
The left side won't come up. If I go back down past where it's stuck and try to move it back up, it gets stuck there. If I go down further again, it will get stuck there. All the while the right side moves up without problem..... no problem only if you don't count the tweaked seat and that it's now so far back it's practically unusable.

I am not finding anything on this issue. I only found instructions for when the entire seat has problems.

Please help.

I had this problem with my passenger seat. Remove the switch from the housing and spray contact cleaner down the shaft and push on switch with a bit of force and it will start working. Spray more and cycle the switch. Be careful, don't activate the side air bag, put the red/orange spacer to prevent this.

M4rinus · Post by **M4rinus** » 28 Apr 2014, 11:21

By the 'switch' do you mean the controls? because I already sprayed those and that didn't work.
Which shaft are you referring to? Also I don't believe my year has an airbag in the seat.

Post by **mecheng** » 28 Apr 2014, 12:33

M4rinus wrote:By the 'switch' do you mean the controls? because I already sprayed those and that didn't work.
Which shaft are you referring to? Also I don't believe my year has an airbag in the seat.

The controls yes, you have to remove the controls from the plastic housing basically until the circuit board is exposed and each control looks like an old joy stick with a shaft, I had to spray into each control with WD-40 and eventually with a bit of force, the control started working

M4rinus · Post by **M4rinus** » 28 Apr 2014, 12:36

Unfortunately that was the first thing I checked and did. Sadly that did not fix it.

Post by **mecheng** » 28 Apr 2014, 13:36

I believe there are 3 motors, if the motor works one way it should work the other way, if not it is the control. If you are activating a seperate command it could be the motor itself. It is not clear what operation you are describing

M4rinus · Post by **M4rinus** » 28 Apr 2014, 13:37

I figured it out.

I took the seat covering off and it was the square rod that runs across from the motor to the other side. It was out of the square hole in the gears. Now to assemble it all back.