Yogii

The passenger seat in my 94 coupe does not recline at all. Matter of fact the most rearward position is about even with the driver's side seat all the way forward position.
Before my ownership, seems like the gears got out of alignment. When I take it to an upholstery place they tell me to go to my Indy Shop. My Indy shop tells me to go to a Body Guy. My Body guy wants nothing to do with it.
Who can fix it? GF refuses to go for any trip longer than 20 minutes.
Is the Dealer Shop the last resort?
Help!

-Yogii
AKA 968 Novice

royalschwarz

An indy shop should have the means to diagnose and fix. Body and upholstery guys won't have anything to do with it.

With that said, it'd probably be a whole lot cheaper and easier to replace with a known good seat. It's 4 bolts and less than an hours worth of work that anyone can do. And it'd be a lot easier than disassembling the seat, undoing upholstery, replacing motors, realigning cables, putting everything back together and getting the upholstery put all back without wrinkles. Sure it can be done but getting into a seat and diagnosing motors and alignment issues is an all day affair that I've only attempted once and will never do again with so many good used seats out there.

Paul Waterloo

Is the seatback electric or manual? If electric, get some detoxit and spray it around the switch on the exterior of the switch. I had a similar issue with my 951 and this has fixed it for good.

Yogii

It is electric. The switch works fine. The seat works fine. Just the adjustment on the angle of the seat back is whacked.

-Yogii

oz968

I got same thing but throw into the mix the electric seat will not go forward enough to allow me to get the rear bolts for the mount out. It has made putting the pedal assemble together for my manual retro a nightmare and I am still not walking right.
Peter

Yogii

The Indy Shop that I took my car to wanted to be sure that my passenger side seat should not have 4 way seat switch.
I just want confirmation that my passenger seat switches are "normal".
Thanks for any input.

-Yogii

regajohn

OP,
if this is your seat, Those switches will only (electrically) adjust the pitch of the seat bottom … Front switch will adjust the seat bottom under the thighs up and down.
The back button adjusts the back of the seat bottom (under your ***) up and down.
The seat back recline is going to be a handle on (under) the front of the seat. One handle slides the whole seat forward and backwards the other handle reclines the seat back (these adjustments are both manual, not electric).

@jeff968

oz968

Yep thats what mine does
Peter

Paul Waterloo

My 968 and 951 work the same way.

931guru

From the owner manual...

Yogii

Thank you everybody who has commented. I took the front cover off of the passenger seat. I see the handle to slide the whole seat for and aft. I do not see any way to change the seat back angle.
What am I missing?

Thanks,

-Yogii
AKA 968 Novice, maybe even one rank below novice...

regajohn

There is, or at least there should be, another handle that's on the left side of the passenger seat closer to the torque tube tunnel.
the level should be underneath the passengers left knee area you pull up on it and the seat back manually adjusts (reclines / unreclines) ...

Note: once you pull up on that left handle you must use your upper back to lean (push) against the seat back and it should recline ... if you take body pressure off, the the seat back should straighten up.

It's all pretty clearly spelled out and shown in images in the owner's manual.

I'd attach photos but my 968 is not here right now.

Zirconocene

Does the driver's side on your car have the inboard handle? Maybe you can compare and contrast. I can't see very well in the picture but maybe it's just come loose and/or gone missing. I don't know how it's connected, so I'm just speculating right now.

good luck

Yogii

Unfortunately, I see no second handle. I also do not see a place where it would attach.
Zirconocene-I will check my driver's side seat tomorrow and report back.

Thanks,

Yogii

regajohn