seat creak

[DavidSF]

I have 42.5k miles on my Boxster (base) and I've begun noticing a faint creak sound that I believe is coming from the driver's seat back, near the bottom where it meets the seat. I can sometimes reproduce the sound if I rock back and forth on the seat. I can also sometimes hear it if I'm stopped on a hill and start moving. Any ideas what could be causing the creaking sound and how I can fix it? I don't think it's the engine mount from what I've read of the classical symptons/sounds.

thanks,

David

[986Jim]

Well you can start by not rocking back and forth in the seat lol..

Pull the seat out and have a look at the tilt mechanism and the straps under the seat. Make sure everything is tight. Have a look at the tilt and see if it's all cloged up with dirt and hair or anyting. Clean it up, lub it again with some white lithium or other all purpose grease and tilt it around on the ground to isolate the noise and clean it up. I'm sure it's something you can fix with just messin with the seat on the ground where you can look at it and work with it. Probablly just something in there gettin stiff and the small amount of movement the seat back has normally is now squeeking when there is weight on it in a certian position.

Should be pretty easy to fix with a bit of time.