Passenger seat sliding back

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by tennisfreak

Mine slides freely

BUT

when I slide the seat forward if I reach under and push down on the bar underneath the front of the seat then I can get it to stay in place.

That may be the clue as to what is "broke" on mine and why it stays forward! When I use the side lever to move my seat forward my front bar is much higher on the inside (right hand looking at seat from front) then on the outside. After I use the front bar to adjust the seat back on the slides the bar is perfectly level. It is possible that the out side latch is catching when slid forward and even though both sides are not fully locked it is enough to hold it. The seat works perfectly smooth and there are no resistance points other then it staying forward when accessing the back seat. I read somewhere on here that somebody had an issue moving the seat at all after the bar was stepped on and bent and maybe mine is just bent enough to be handy. NOT suggesting everybody run out and step on their seat adjustment bars!!!!!! I will take a closer look and see what I can come up with.

As far as the doors closing I just figure my car likes me so much it enjoys slapping me in the butt every time I put something in the back seat.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by CAMBAM_6

I drive a 13' FRS and my passenger seat just slides back I have to hold it while i buckle my daughter in..kind of annoying. Also my Doors do the same they rarely stay in place and usually swing back in hit me if I don't actually hold the door open when I get out especially inclined (or is it declined) you know what i mean lol

I've kind of gotten used to it athough it is very frustrating lol

I reckon the doors are designed that way, so as our SOs don't leave the door open and tear it off while backing out of the garage ......


humfrz

[Foobar]

I was cleaning my dash this weekend and had my legs dangling out the door while I was sitting sideways. I thought the door was staying open in place and next thing I know, the car gave me a big old "hug" and bruised the hell out of my shin. I think I scared my neighbor with my outburst of profanities.

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[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Foobar

I was cleaning my dash this weekend and had my legs dangling out the door while I was sitting sideways. I thought the door was staying open in place and next thing I know, the car gave me a big old "hug" and bruised the hell out of my shin. I think I scared my neighbor with my outburst of profanities.

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Oh that was YOU I heard!!!!! Exact same scenario with me this weekend. Just a little gust of wind and WHAM!

[Delfin]

I never had this problem until today. Sorry for reviving this 4 year old thread but. Has anyone found a solution to this?

I put my 5 y/o son in the back seat

It’s a pain to have the seat sliding back on me.

[Dake]

I assumed the sliding back function when using the side lever is a common thing in 2 door Toyotas. My Gen 4 Celica does it too.

The reasoning is, the seat will return to wherever it was originally set, so you're not then needing to use the under-seat bar to reset its forward position. It's a bit of a joke in the Toyobaru, but the Celica actually has somewhat useable back seats. If you regularly have someone back there (thereby requiring the front seat to stay a little forward on the track for rear-seat comfort), once you set it up, it will always go back to where you set it vs sliding all the way to the rear than requiring the front seat passenger to slide it forward again.

It's essentially a mechanical "memory" function for the seat. And yeah Tcoat - sounds like yours isn't working right.

Edit: Ok so here's the funny thing: I'm wrong about the twins anyway. On the Celica it did mechanically remember it's position. On my FR-S, if you have the seat set say halfway forward on its track and then pull the side lever, it will immediately slide to all the way back.

So uh... nevermind.

edit edit: didn't realize this was a necropost!

Short answer? It's a "feature"!

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Dake

I assumed the sliding back function when using the side lever is a common thing in 2 door Toyotas. My Gen 4 Celica does it too.

The reasoning is, the seat will return to wherever it was originally set, so you're not then needing to use the under-seat bar to reset its forward position. It's a bit of a joke in the Toyobaru, but the Celica actually has somewhat useable back seats. If you regularly have someone back there (thereby requiring the front seat to stay a little forward on the track for rear-seat comfort), once you set it up, it will always go back to where you set it vs sliding all the way to the rear than requiring the front seat passenger to slide it forward again.

It's essentially a mechanical "memory" function for the seat. And yeah Tcoat - sounds like yours isn't working right.

Edit: Ok so here's the funny thing: I'm wrong about the twins anyway. On the Celica it did mechanically remember it's position. On my FR-S, if you have the seat set say halfway forward on its track and then pull the side lever, it will immediately slide to all the way back.

So uh... nevermind.

edit edit: didn't realize this was a necropost!

Short answer? It's a "feature"!

Ya my broke one eventfully fixed itself and now acts like all the rest. I would have preferred it stayed broke.

[Delfin]

But it was working perfectly before until today.

[Ultramaroon]

There might even be eyes for where the spring that was intentionally omitted to cut costs was meant to go.

[Subsonic]

Like many others I sometimes park on an uphill gradient and it always seems like a lottery if I can get the seat to stay forward while folding the seat to allow passengers in, or even if just retrieving something from the back seat. I also fit a fire extinguisher for tarmac rallies which limits forward movement of the passenger seat, and whenever we are loading stuff in the back seat, the seat often is free to impact the fire extinguisher and damage the bracket.

This is the only feature that really bugs me on my car so I decided to investigate to see if I could do something about it. I took a couple of pics of what I found, hopefully it helps someone. Referring to the pics, remember my car is right hand drive, so I needed to modify the left seat. Yours may be a bit different if you drive on the other side.

With the seat out of the car (4 bolts and some connectors), I removed the seat recline handle assembly by just pulling it forwards. I then had access to the screws that secure the left side plastic shrouds. With these off, you can see the mechanism quite clearly as in the first pic. The recline / slide interlock works by a cable that pulls up on the slide lock once the backrest reaches a certain forwards angle. Once the backrest is reclined back past that point, the cable tension is released and the slide lock is able to re-engage in the sliders.

I found it was easy to remove this interlock by releasing the rear end of the cable outer from its clip. I disconnected the cable outer only, but theoretically you could take the inner off too, or take the whole cable out for that matter. I just used a zip tie to prevent the now loose end of the cable from rattling around. With the rear end disconnected and secure, the cable could occasionally (depending on seat position) lose tension and the front end could still rattle, so I disconnected the front cable outer as well and secured it with another tie. Then I put the covers back on and threw the seat back in the car.

The modified system works as you would expect. To let passengers in the rear seat, you can (optionally) slide the seat all the way forward first, then lift the recline lever to recline the seat all the way forward. Since the interlock is disconnected there is no way the seat will slide backwards, even if parked on a steep incline. Also, once the passenger is in, the seat will be in the slider position you last left it.

Thoroughly recommend this little “mod”. It took about an hour of my time including head scratching, and about 10c worth of zip ties. I can easily reverse it if I want, but I doubt I ever will.

[8RZ]

Mine does this.

[Dake]

But if you don't lock the seat back upright, it will slide all the way back again right?

[PetrolioBenzina]

17 locks forward using the bar at the front of the seat. Not so using the seat-back release.

[ermax]

I can sort of toggle mine between behaviours by sort of bending down the front bar a little. Once you do that the side release will make it slide forward and stay there. When you want to put the seat back you have to push it uprite and then pull the front bar to slide it back. If I want to toggle back to the original (brokenish) mode I simply bend the front bar back up.

When I say bend it isn't like I am pulling or pushing the crap out of it. Basically you pull the side lever and then slide it forward and then press down on the front bar until you feel the seat lock forward. Kind of hard to explain, you just have to fiddle with it.