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angle adjustment for seat

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Hello,
I have a problem with the mechanism which allows the adjustment of the seat.
With the road shocks,and acceleration the system release the adjusted position and you fall down.. not very funny when you drive apart for the passenger who laugh a lot.
After dismounting I found the little cog with too much play , so I drilled it and fittted a screw with washhers for reducing the play . Unfortunately this repair had a short life and again the back of my seat release.
Do somebody had the same problem? and what repair solution could you propose me?
Gamma as in Goat

Re: angle adjustment for seat

Unread post by Gamma as in Goat »

Paul21 - yes, but on the passenger seat (right Clair !) on my S2 Zagato; seats w/ hoop-headrests.
It happened 1x when I was sitting in the car cleaning or playing with something, which made me realize that it would happen again . It did, but I wasn't the victim. Not when the car was moving, but again when it was not. Strange, for hundreds of km it didn't happen - on that day - until the car was parked. Then it happened again, but his time only 1/3 reclining.
Necessity being the mama of invention, I had previously decided on a high-tech solution !
It was easy to wedge something soft between the seatback (that something being a full-small-black- nylon- suitcase & besides, it matches the interior) & the mini-rear seat, but it isn't really a very elegant solution. The 5L 1/2 empty plastic oil cans that I tried slid under the seat & were forgotten for some weeks.
I recently had to emergency borrow oil on a Fulvia Meeting in France (thanks Bart!) & then buy more oil before rediscovering the lost cans.
I didn't even think about disassembling the seat to determine what the cause was. I had long decided that the new-in-this-car used 4 point-harness's deserved better seats ; especially after seeing that Emil Tschumi's 'oh, wow!' rallye-prepared but fully-street-legal & wicked -sounding Fulvia was equipped with more modern, stronger, safer seats. Especially especially after Erika Tschumi showed me photos of the same seats in a different rallye-prepared but fully-street-legal & wicked -sounding Fulvia - that decided it could fly down a hill taking a shorter route than other cars. Well, it did - although that wasn't Emils intention (I've posted this story in full living color earlier this year). Erika told me many parts were taken out of the pretzeled & flattened Fulvia, including the roll cage & the seats/ harn-looking-sports/rallye seats.
No china-made replica's !!!!! The new (used) seats are going currently being installed in the car.
I will box up the original seats, with the original steering wheels & 'bad-joke' waist-only clip-together (or fall open) seat belts, in case someday someone wants to reswap them all.
What the car will lack in originality it will gain in safety. The "well-known-manufacturer" rallye-seats have only a small degree of seatback adjustment & came from a pretzeled / flattened Lancia Integrale (not my car). They look new & seem to have great strength. Seriously, I hope to never again be "smacked in the butt" while in any car, nor to again roll over any car...but should that occur, I don't want the seats snapping in two. Besides that, I can't imagine hanging on to the steering-wheel ,while falling backwards, while avoiding a herd of buffalo running across the icy mountain pass I am traveling on & still maintaining control. I can't even imagine doing this backing out of the garage.
I also assume that the new seats will be more comfortable, although the originals were not bad.
An important side-benefit will be that I will have an excuse to drive to NE France from SW Germany, to visit Erica & Emil and show them that their wise-words were appreciated. Also to drink some of their home-made apple wine & climb in the apple trees!!
Paul, I don't imagine you can do the same (visit France) but a good solution might be to do the same by
installing better seats. If the passenger who laughed isn't nice to you, only buy 1 seat.
Please keep us posted & drive safe. JoGo


paul21 wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I have a problem with the mechanism which allows the
> adjustment of the seat.
> With the road shocks,and acceleration the system release the
> adjusted position and you fall down.. not very funny when you
> drive apart for the passenger who laugh a lot.
> After dismounting I found the little cog with too much play ,
> so I drilled it and fittted a screw with washhers for
> reducing the play . Unfortunately this repair had a short
> life and again the back of my seat release.
> Do somebody had the same problem? and what repair solution
> could you propose me?
Gamma as in Goat

Re: angle adjustment for seat

Unread post by Gamma as in Goat »

I read ur address & realized that U don't have to visit France - because U R already in France. Ha Ha !
If you want Emil's phone # (he is a Fulvia XXXpert) email info@maigic-drinks.de & I'll MAIL U his tel # in Genevreuille - maybe he can give U more advice. JoGo
Gamma as in Goat

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Unread post by Gamma as in Goat »

sorry - www.magic-drinks.de is correct
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