electric Seat Troubles

breid95 · Post by **breid95** » 12 Jun 2009, 11:07

1996 960 electric seat troubles:
right track up and back don't work driver or passenger.
Nothing blocking the tracks. I got 2 more seats from junk yard, passenger leather perfect condition shows now wear at all
so thinking motors, cables look good, all other functions work excellent. Really strange that 4 seats and all have the same exact issue. right track does not work . thank you for the help in advance breid95

danr960 · Post by **danr960** » 12 Jun 2009, 11:30

This may help you, a very common problem with Volvo seats in the 900 series.

https://www.matthewsvolvosite.com/forums ... =2&t=11973

DanR '94 964 343,000 miles (109,000 on the new engine)

breid95 · Post by **breid95** » 17 Jun 2009, 17:20

interesting, piece of coat hanger, I would never have thought of that one, I will try it. Do you remember how many inches you used? thank you ever so much

danr960 · Post by **danr960** » 18 Jun 2009, 13:16

Not sure, maybe 3/8". I did some measurments of the cable, sheath and the hole of the motor shaft to get to the proper length.

DanR

breid95 · Post by **breid95** » 08 Oct 2009, 07:24

Dan R you are a genious. i resolved the right track cable issue with a 10cm very small piece of coat hanger. I could have used 15cm. can't believe volvo would use too short a cable. I bought 2 new cables 13.00 each and still wouldn't work until the piece of coat hanger.
thank you for coming to my rescue. breid95

Post by **billofdurham** » 08 Oct 2009, 11:20

Thank you for the update which helps others who have the same problem.

Bill.

DeRail · Post by **DeRail** » 12 Oct 2009, 22:02

Aha! Just the people I need to talk to

I finally took the plunge, clipped the hog rings at the bottom of the seat, pulled the leather up and checked the cable running to the right gearbox. I couldn't feel the cable spinning inside the sheath, but if I angled the cable just right, I could feel it trying to catch on the transmission end. I tried muscling the cable back into the motor temporarily to see if it would move but I didn't want to round off the square end so I let it be. If you could advise on how exactly to do the hangar trick and if it would work that would be GREAT!

Thank you,
Darrell