If I stay in the seat and raise it, it's ok......unless the lead foot hits the pedal
Is it a simple fix or is it a seat out job
Recaro Seats
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amble-gamble
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Is anybody in the know about these seats, I'm a bit of a shortie, so I have the seat raised but every time I get into my car, the drivers seat slumps back down.
If I stay in the seat and raise it, it's ok......unless the lead foot hits the pedal
Is it a simple fix or is it a seat out job
If I stay in the seat and raise it, it's ok......unless the lead foot hits the pedal
Is it a simple fix or is it a seat out job
Don't know if the mechanism is the same as in the standard seats but I had a similar problem when I got mine, think mine was worse though as the adjuster had pretty much stopped working.
I pulled them out of the car and stripped the seat down. turned out that the frame in the base of the seat had snapped.
Stripped the base of the seat and welded it. Works perfectly since.
I pulled them out of the car and stripped the seat down. turned out that the frame in the base of the seat had snapped.
Stripped the base of the seat and welded it. Works perfectly since.
Do they adjust properly? It sounds like what went wrong on mine. Are the adjusting levers pointing in the right direction? I used to have to climb into the car in such a way that I didn't touch them.oze30 wrote:What about the high back recaros? Mine are floppy and can adjust themselves each time you getin/out!
Hey Jim,
If you have a welder/access to a welder, pull them out and strip them down. There's a bar that runs accross the back of the base of the seat, connecting the lever and mechanism on one side to a similar mechanism on the other side. Any break will be obvious once you start taking it apart.
I found that where this connects into the seat frame had snapped clean off, this meant that the adjustment lever was twisted up all the time, so I hit it getting into and out of the car, also it didn't work correctly due to it's position.
Here's approximately how I sorted it:
I took the offending seat out of the car.
removed the seat back (it may have been easier to do this in the car)
Removed the lever and the mechanism it's attached to (as one piece) and removed the same mechanism on the opposite side. They are held on by a circlip, and you have to have the seats in the reclined position to remove them.
REmoved the seat cover (carefully) and the foam.
This allowed me access to the frame to weld it.
It is quite a time consuming job, took a couple of hours, fortunatly I can weld though
Good luck sorting it!
Oh and I've ordinary bog standard 316 seats.
If you have a welder/access to a welder, pull them out and strip them down. There's a bar that runs accross the back of the base of the seat, connecting the lever and mechanism on one side to a similar mechanism on the other side. Any break will be obvious once you start taking it apart.
I found that where this connects into the seat frame had snapped clean off, this meant that the adjustment lever was twisted up all the time, so I hit it getting into and out of the car, also it didn't work correctly due to it's position.
Here's approximately how I sorted it:
I took the offending seat out of the car.
removed the seat back (it may have been easier to do this in the car)
Removed the lever and the mechanism it's attached to (as one piece) and removed the same mechanism on the opposite side. They are held on by a circlip, and you have to have the seats in the reclined position to remove them.
REmoved the seat cover (carefully) and the foam.
This allowed me access to the frame to weld it.
It is quite a time consuming job, took a couple of hours, fortunatly I can weld though
Good luck sorting it!
Oh and I've ordinary bog standard 316 seats.
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My "proper" Recaro's were a bit like that when I got them, they just had sticky workings. I took them out, removed the plastic side covers and soaked the mechanisms with WD40 while working the levers. Absolutely full of dust and mankyness, they now work fine againsomeguy wrote:Do they adjust properly? It sounds like what went wrong on mine. Are the adjusting levers pointing in the right direction? I used to have to climb into the car in such a way that I didn't touch them.oze30 wrote:What about the high back recaros? Mine are floppy and can adjust themselves each time you getin/out!
http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts.do ... g=52&fg=25
part nos 9/10/11/12 depending on which seat Ive got. I'm fairly sure is 11/12
part nos 9/10/11/12 depending on which seat Ive got. I'm fairly sure is 11/12