I'm sorry for what feels like a really retarded question but my passenger seat is behaving oddly...

 

I've got a TT 2+2. When I pull the handle on the passenger seat it tilts forward and slides to the front to allow someone to get into the back, fine, this makes sense so far.

 

When I push the back of the seat into it's normal position it clicks and locks back, the bottom of the seat stays put and the front passenger gets in, again all looking good. However when I'm driving down the road and give it some right pedal the force sends the passenger seat sliding right back to the rear most position crushing the rear passenger.

 

To be clear, the first time it was pretty funny, well for me... the front passenger needed a change of underwear and the rear passenger needed new knees but I was smiling. However this happens every time I flip the seat forward and it's getting annoying.

 

So at the moment the work around is after the front passenger gets in they have to slide the seat all the way back and then forward again, this seems to stop it happening.

 

Is this a requirement or is my seat broken? Has anyone come across this before and are there any known fixes?

 

Thanks for any ideas, especially from my daughter who getting crushed on a regular basis!

 

Jynx

I'm sorry for what feels like a really retarded question but my passenger seat is behaving oddly...

 

I've got a TT 2+2. When I pull the handle on the passenger seat it tilts forward and slides to the front to allow someone to get into the back, fine, this makes sense so far.

 

When I push the back of the seat into it's normal position it clicks and locks back, the bottom of the seat stays put and the front passenger gets in, again all looking good. However when I'm driving down the road and give it some right pedal the force sends the passenger seat sliding right back to the rear most position crushing the rear passenger.

 

To be clear, the first time it was pretty funny, well for me... the front passenger needed a change of underwear and the rear passenger needed new knees but I was smiling. However this happens every time I flip the seat forward and it's getting annoying.

 

So at the moment the work around is after the front passenger gets in they have to slide the seat all the way back and then forward again, this seems to stop it happening.

 

Is this a requirement or is my seat broken? Has anyone come across this before and are there any known fixes?

 

Thanks for any ideas, especially from my daughter who getting crushed on a regular basis!

 

Jynx

It seems you have a faulty seat runner, either the front lever isnt returning, could be a spring, or the mechanism for the front lever is worn. There will be plenty of breakers out there with a known working pass seat/base.

It seems you have a faulty seat runner, either the front lever isnt returning, could be a spring, or the mechanism for the front lever is worn. There will be plenty of breakers out there with a known working pass seat/base.

Check you don't have any coins jammed in the runners too.

Check you don't have any coins jammed in the runners too.

In all my Zeds I've been under the assumption that the seat needs to go all the way back before it can go forward.

In all my Zeds I've been under the assumption that the seat needs to go all the way back before it can go forward.

Mine is the same when u lift it forward to let someone in the back u have to push chair right back, it then locks and u can pull it forward to where u want it.

 

I just thought it was normal.

Mine is the same when u lift it forward to let someone in the back u have to push chair right back, it then locks and u can pull it forward to where u want it.

 

I just thought it was normal.

If you have to push the seat right back, then the poor person in the back will get squashed lol. Im just going from memory as both of mine are electric now, so maybe mine was duff lol

If you have to push the seat right back, then the poor person in the back will get squashed lol. Im just going from memory as both of mine are electric now, so maybe mine was duff lol

I have the exact same thing with mine...and pushing back all the way doesn't seem to help - as it does so when it slides back and amputates the rear passenger. The front passenger then moves it forward only for it to slide back for a second, third and sometimes 4th bite!! I usually end up with the front passenger holding onto the dash to keep the seat forward!

Check the lever thing you pull to slide the seat forward is pushed down to lock the mechanism when your passenger is sitting on it. Not the one in the side of the seat which you use when you get in but the one down at the front under the seat base. Mine sometimes returns and locks properly and sometimes doesn't. Must be a spring or return thing somewhere going u/s.

Back when i had back seats, i found it depended what order you put the seat back...

 

Slide back then tilt back, locks in where it was previously

 

Tilt back then slide back, need to slide right back to lock

Mine has to be pushed pretty far back to lock it to the runners, pretty crappy for the rear passengers. It isn't all the way back though, just most of the way.