C4 GP Seat stuck
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C4 GP Seat stuck
The front passenger seat is stuck on our C4 GP. Pretty sure it's got a felt tip pen stuck in the inboard runner. Looking around this doesn't appear to be an unknown problem, but what I haven't got to the bottom of is how to fix it! As the seat is almost right forward, the end of the release bar is obscuring the front mounting bolts. Any one got any bright ideas as to how to get it out? Looks like there are 8 bolts holding the seat frame down to the runnsers, but access to these is, er, limited, and I'm not convinced that I will find that they are not captive nuts, bolted through from underneath. I wonder if I might be able to make a tool by welding a torx bit into a nut, and then cutting the excess off the top so that I can turn it with an open ended spanner just under the end of the release bar.
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Re: C4 GP Seat stuck
I think you better get the kneepads out and the dentist mirrors
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Re: C4 GP Seat stuck
Agreed. I don't envy you Richard, I've had a stuck seat before too, in my case one of the bolts was not tight and had worked loose until it jammed the rail from sliding.lexi wrote:I think you better get the kneepads out and the dentist mirrors
I don't remember how I fixed it but I'm sure it involved a lot of time and a filled up swear jar.
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Re: C4 GP Seat stuck
Success!
After trying to get on the bolt in the runner, and trying poke out the pen from the front without success, decided to try and go in from the top. Stripped out the centre console (not as easy it sounds!), then the plastic side plates off the seats (which requires quite a bit of 'gentle persuasion' ) I got access the 6 bolts holding the frame to the seats. Once these were out (not captive as I had feared, and not that bad although the one behind the belt pretensioner on the outside was awkward, and would be nigh on impossible without a flex head ratchet spanner) the seat lifted clear. This revealed a hole in the top of the runner above the stuck pen, and a bit of jiggling with a screwdriver freed the pen, and the runners are now sliding again So now I just have to remove the runners from the car, re-unite them with seat base, re-install the plastic covers, work out how to reconnect the pre-tensioner (just realised that may not be that easy!!!) refit the seat, and all the plastic trim and away we go.
Now, boys DON'T DO IT AGAIN!!!
After trying to get on the bolt in the runner, and trying poke out the pen from the front without success, decided to try and go in from the top. Stripped out the centre console (not as easy it sounds!), then the plastic side plates off the seats (which requires quite a bit of 'gentle persuasion' ) I got access the 6 bolts holding the frame to the seats. Once these were out (not captive as I had feared, and not that bad although the one behind the belt pretensioner on the outside was awkward, and would be nigh on impossible without a flex head ratchet spanner) the seat lifted clear. This revealed a hole in the top of the runner above the stuck pen, and a bit of jiggling with a screwdriver freed the pen, and the runners are now sliding again So now I just have to remove the runners from the car, re-unite them with seat base, re-install the plastic covers, work out how to reconnect the pre-tensioner (just realised that may not be that easy!!!) refit the seat, and all the plastic trim and away we go.
Now, boys DON'T DO IT AGAIN!!!
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Re: C4 GP Seat stuck
Got it back together - there is something wrong with the bolt on the bottom of the seat belt with the pre-tensioner, as I can't undo it - might be stripped or something inside. Anyway, you can put the seat back together in the car, then bolt it down OK. There belt is supposed to clip into this fitting, but I couldn't work out how to release it.
Richard W