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Old 04-05-2019, 08:05 AM
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My seat back on the passenger side will only move forward. The problem is in the switch. You can feel the switch move forward but it won't move back. Not sure when this happened because nobody ever rides in the passenger seat. I did have it at the trim shop recently and they had it apart. Is it possible that they caused the problem when they reassembled it?

It turned out to be an alignment issue between the pin on the sear adjuster switch and the ****. The pin must fit exactly with the slot on the ****. If not it will bind and only move in one direction.

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Old 04-05-2019, 12:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Jim 'n' SC
My seat back on the passenger side will only move forward. The problem is in the switch. You can feel the switch move forward but it won't move back. Not sure when this happened because nobody ever rides in the passenger seat. I did have it at the trim shop recently and they had it apart. Is it possible that they caused the problem when they reassembled it?
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Old 04-10-2019, 02:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Jim 'n' SC
My seat back on the passenger side will only move forward. The problem is in the switch. You can feel the switch move forward but it won't move back. Not sure when this happened because nobody ever rides in the passenger seat. I did have it at the trim shop recently and they had it apart. Is it possible that they caused the problem when they reassembled it?

It turned out to be an alignment issue between the pin on the sear adjuster switch and the ****. The pin must fit exactly with the slot on the ****. If not it will bind and only move in one direction.
Most likely



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