Xantia Drivers seat
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Xantia Drivers seat
Xantia 1.9 TD 1995 Drivers seat has a lever on the right hand side. This is attached by 2 bolts, what size are these please? Also what is the handle for?
Sam de Lessups from Coventry West Midlands England
Xantia 1.9 TD 1995 185000 this old girl went to sleep.
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Xantia 1.9 TD 1995 185000 this old girl went to sleep.
Picasso Exclusive 1.6 HDi 2005 29500
xantia driving seat
The bolts are missing in mine so whan you get out the seat goes up and when you sit down it goes down with a clump. The MOT centre have advised that I should get it seen to so rather than sit outside the motor factors buying and trying different bolts I thought I would ask you guys
Sam de Lessups from Coventry West Midlands England
Xantia 1.9 TD 1995 185000 this old girl went to sleep.
Picasso Exclusive 1.6 HDi 2005 29500
Xantia 1.9 TD 1995 185000 this old girl went to sleep.
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There's a spring tension on the handle of the piston type adjuster which manifests itself when the bolts losen that will allow the seat to spring up until weight is applied on it again. The bolts are quite a small daimeter [I'm not sure of the side off hand either] - these are glorified metric fine thread SCREWS with a torx head on them.BonceChops wrote:They are either M5 or M6 I can't remember which and about 20mm long. They fell out on my old Xantia. If you pull the plastic side trim off the seat you will see them. The trim just pulls upwars if I remember correctly, it is quite stiff.
When the lot is bolted onto the side of the seat frame again all will be right for the MOT - just a long shot but are these still floating around under the seat - that's where mine were? Failing that check out one you can play about with in a breaker's yard although you'll need at least to have handy a set of torx bits and screwdriver holder [a fiver for a Draper set in Tesco's will do the job at a push when you forget to take them ].
Andrew
Hmm has the car always done this?
If not then surely a couple of bolts wouldnt work themselves lose, would they?
My lever was fine for about 5 months and then all of a sudden it just wouldnt stay up (im small and short ) so maybe the a bracket has broken on my car (BIL's car! ).
I always did like to chuck myself in onto the seat.
If not then surely a couple of bolts wouldnt work themselves lose, would they?
My lever was fine for about 5 months and then all of a sudden it just wouldnt stay up (im small and short ) so maybe the a bracket has broken on my car (BIL's car! ).
I always did like to chuck myself in onto the seat.
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AFAIK they're M4. And yes, you may well find them under the seat. You could probably get them from Citroen for only a few pence - you'd be sure you've got the right ones then.
Despite being 6' tall, I do have my seat jacked up a bit - I find the lumbar support intrusive, which means reclining the seat, but at the right back position I need to get my legs in, I can hardly reach the wheel Having the seat half up means I can a) get my legs in the car b) not get back ache after 10 minutes c) reach the steering wheel
Despite being 6' tall, I do have my seat jacked up a bit - I find the lumbar support intrusive, which means reclining the seat, but at the right back position I need to get my legs in, I can hardly reach the wheel Having the seat half up means I can a) get my legs in the car b) not get back ache after 10 minutes c) reach the steering wheel
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Yes the screws do undo themselves. Unless there is a fairy with a bad sense of humour. Mine did it and I have heard of a couple of others doing it. I thought mine had broken a bracket until i actually looked at it and found both screws out. I think I had to use the lever to adjust the seat to line the screw holes up.
Neil
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