....z3 driver seat moves ......

[missan nissan]

GUYS,
Recently purchased a NICE 2001 Z3 Starting to notice under braking the drivers seat moves forward say an inch..is there a fix for this...Thankx.

[panasonic]

Seat bushings.
There was a thread about this yesterday.
Doug Whalen makes new ones, but they're supposedly hard to replace. I've ordered a set just have yet to put them in.

[missan nissan]

got it thankx for the info..

[BunkyZ]

R & R of the seat bushing was relatively easy. I found disconnecting/reconnecting the electrical connectors much more of a hassle.

[whamac]

R & R of the seat bushing was relatively easy. I found disconnecting/reconnecting the electrical connectors much more of a hassle.

Yep, the connectors are the most work.
When I did my seats, the first one took me about ninety minutes; but after the learning curve, the second seat took me more like twenty minutes.

[CLWNSHU]

check out this youtube video....bushings are not hard to replace if you take a big piece of cardboard and draw an outline of the threaded rod / carrier on it before you unscrew the carrier and replace the bushings. This will allow you line up both sides exactly perfect the first time around.

the guy is annoying in this video but it is pretty good. he is always out of breath for some reason.

note that you will need to have the dealer or someone with the SRS airbag reset tool reset the light on your cluster that will light after you take the seats out.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM4KSnA58EI[/ame]

[panasonic]

R & R of the seat bushing was relatively easy. I found disconnecting/reconnecting the electrical connectors much more of a hassle.

You're talking about removing the seat right?
The hardest part of that is getting the bolt towards the center of the car. Then I just dropped the top flipped the seat and undid them in 2 minutes or so.

[lokijibber]

No need to clear the code if you pull the battery cable for a few minutes before removing the seat and do it all before reattaching the cable.

[GB5416]

Go online and google whalenshiftmachine. You don't have enough posts to use the private message feature yet, if you did, that's him in post #5.

[whamac]

No need to clear the code if you pull the battery cable for a few minutes before removing the seat and do it all before reattaching the cable.

No need to do anything at all, if you just don't put the key in the ignition while the electrical connections are disconnected.

[clemsonbmw]

I have the same issue on my 98 M, sounds a little too intense to take on at the moment. Always wondered what the issue was though. Thanks guys

[ssbuchanan]

Being 6'5", I have to put the seat hard up against the back. Stops the seat sliding around

The trick was, I did that for the passenger seat as well to stop it moving.

There are eBay bushing sets available too, in case that's easier.

Edit: but I'd recommend getting them from whamac (as I did).

[stonea]

I did this to my 99 roadster I didn't take to long. The only problem was reconnecting the wires from the floor to the seat again.

[whamac]

Being 6'5", I have to put the seat hard up against the back. Stops the seat sliding around

The trick was, I did that for the passenger seat as well to stop it moving.

There are eBay bushing sets available too, in case that's easier.

Ebay bushings are similar to mine. A few other folks saw me making and selling them, and they jumped on the bandwagon.
The installation is identical, regardless of where you buy the bushings.

[Dino D]

Hi Doug,

I ordered a set from you this week for shipping to UK. Thanks for the fast response and shipping advice.

I wanted to ask you something - with your bushes I need to sand them down. What is the reason for this - to ensure a perfect fit and allow for differences on different cars due to age/wear or something else?

[whamac]

Hi Doug,

I ordered a set from you this week for shipping to UK. Thanks for the fast response and shipping advice.

I wanted to ask you something - with your bushes I need to sand them down. What is the reason for this - to ensure a perfect fit and allow for differences on different cars due to age/wear or something else?

You answered your own question!

Being involved with manufacturing for all these years, and working daily with dimensions in the tenths of thousandths, I've become a bit of a perfectionist.
I realized when I first began making the bushings that the space they fit into is not going to be identical from one seat to another, so I figured it's better to let the customer fit them individually.
Perhaps it's a bit of overkill, but I figure it's better than a "one size fits all" approach.

[Dino D]

I agree, better a little sanding down for a perfect fit after all no point going through the effort of getting seats out and not fixing it properly!