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Old Jan 26, 2012 | 12:31 PM
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Can anybody help ? drivers seat it will go up and down when i press button, but when i press the button to recline seat nothing happens i cant hear anything coming from button or is there way i can do it manual HELP
 
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Old Jan 26, 2012 | 03:40 PM
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Kelvin, it sounds like to me that your switch is toast and you will need a new switch. If you want to isolate it down further by using a multimeter, let me know and I will help you do that. It is easy checks to make. The hardest thing may be that you will need to unbolt the seat from the floor to get proper access.
 
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Old Jan 27, 2012 | 11:42 AM
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Kelvin, it sounds like to me that your switch is toast and you will need a new switch. If you want to isolate it down further by using a multimeter, let me know and I will help you do that. It is easy checks to make. The hardest thing may be that you will need to unbolt the seat from the floor to get proper access.
Yes please,do you know how to unbolt seat to check and you tell me where the best place to get a new switch or do i need to get the two switches thank you for your help
 
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Old Jan 27, 2012 | 08:28 PM
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Kelvin, if you look at the seat, you will find that there are 4 bolts holding it to the floor. The 2 on the back of the seat are covered with plastic caps. Slide the caps out of the way and it will expose some torx bolts. If I remember right, you need a T-55 bit to loosen the bolts. The fonts I believe are your standard bolts. Once the 4 bolts are loose, you can rotate the seat around a little bit to access the underside of the seat.

As for doing electrically diagnosing things, you will need to look at the switch panel on the side of the seat and on the inside of the seat, you will find a plug that goes to the switch panel. You want to find a white/red wire (you will find multiple ones like this) that goes to Pin 7 and then a yellow/red wire that goes to pin 12. Connect your multimeter across these two wires set to the DCV scale. Now, with the car in the RUN position, attempt to make the seat recline. Does the multimeter jump up to 12 VDC or does it remain at 0 VDC (anything less than 1 VDC is effectively 0 VDC)? If it goes up to 12 VDC, then your motor in the seat is bad unless you have a wiring issue in the seat. If it stays at 0 VDC, then you have a bad switch. Unfortunately, from what I can tell, you are going to have to buy the whole switch assembly and not just a single switch. Do some looking around and see what you can find, but I am not holding out a lot of promise for this.
 
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