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Old 03-31-2017, 12:48 PM
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Alright so I just bought my car wendsday. The driver seat was working fine. But yesterday I moved it all the way back to clean it and now none of the switches on the seat work. Now I'm sure it's not the fuse because the passenger seat works fine. Now other then that I haven't really tried anything because I wanted to check with you guys so I could just fix the correct thing the first time. Thanks
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Maybe some wires was stretched out and lost connection?
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Yeah I'm going to take the seat out tomorrow and look under the carpet to see if any are corroded or disconnected. Thanks
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Do not take out the carpet. The connector behind the switch is what gets corroded. I took off the one screw on the back/botom and was able to get my paw and wiggle the wires going into seat switch. It took me quite a few times of doing this for problem to go away. I know its lazy but it worked. I do have a used switch ready to go from another seat just in case.
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Originally Posted by 30thanniv
Do not take out the carpet. The connector behind the switch is what gets corroded. I took off the one screw on the back/botom and was able to get my paw and wiggle the wires going into seat switch. It took me quite a few times of doing this for problem to go away. I know its lazy but it worked. I do have a used switch ready to go from another seat just in case.
ok thank you, I'll try that today
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was able to get my "paw" and wiggle the wires going into seat switch----> that's too funny
I didn't know the TA's had elect.passenger seats
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Originally Posted by 2ToeRacing
was able to get my "paw" and wiggle the wires going into seat switch----> that's too funny
I didn't know the TA's had elect.passenger seats

well passenger has electric lumbard and something else I'm not even sure. But back and forth is a lever.
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Originally Posted by 30thanniv
Do not take out the carpet. The connector behind the switch is what gets corroded. I took off the one screw on the back/botom and was able to get my paw and wiggle the wires going into seat switch. It took me quite a few times of doing this for problem to go away. I know its lazy but it worked. I do have a used switch ready to go from another seat just in case.
i took the screw out of the back bottom right side next to the center console and I've been wiggling this wire but with no luck. Is this even the right wire?



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