Front seat adjustment

[Radorocco]

Cannot get my driver's seat to "click" into the right forward/backward position.

Will I need to take the seat out to fix?

Any pointers?

T I A

Jeff

[GTXTRA]

Hi Jeff, sounds like the rubber guide or pin out of alingnment or broken.
Easily checked from looking under front of seat.
If pin isn’t engaging in hole then seat won’t lock.

All bits easily sourced if need new ones.

Seats go in and out very easily but mind your back if you have to lift out.
Unlikely if it’s just the components mentioned.

[mr.brown]

As above, look under the front seat.

As you pull on/let go of the front lever a locking pin moves in and out.
The locking pin slides through a fixed mounting hole in the bodywork and is held in place by a spring (or maybe two springs on a mk2?)
The locking pin engages with holes in a rail fixed to the underside of the seat.
The rail is centred and slides through a rubber guide which clips into the same mounting as the slider pin.

What can happen is that some well intentioned but misguided individual in the past has used the wrong type of grease which congeals to a nearly solid mess - this makes everything very stiff and hard to locate the hole.

The spring(s) on the slider pin may also have come undone.

As GTXTRA points out the rubber guide may have popped out or broken or be missing altogether.

[Radorocco]

Thanks very much for your replies, gents.

It transpires that the rubber guide had had enough and was found in two pieces under the footwell mat!

New part on the way. Is it replaceable with seat in situ?

Cheers
Jeff

[GTXTRA]

Just ease it back on the rail to gain access and fit new one.
Then a bit of jiggery pokery to manipulate the arm into position whilst pin engages.