Trivial Seat Adjustment problem but renders the car completely undriva

[Rui725]

Hi all,

Got myself quite a doozie here, and its related to the driver side seat. Only the back recliner portion is electronic, everything else is manual adjustment and the back recliner handle just broke off and the back position is way too high rendering it unsafe to drive. Now, there was a pre-existing problem before the handle broke off and the recliner would not go "down" and will only go "up". The switch was still intact though. the fact that it still goes up means the motor is still ok. Is there a way I can manually get my seat to recline back down so its drivable again? The whole handle is still intact but the bottom portion of the switch is still intact and its just swinging lose with a evident nudge for where the top portion of the switch used to be. The seat itself is fine, I really hope I don't need to get a new seat just because of this!

[pk2]

Forget all the details of that thing.

Worst case pop the seat out (4 bolts...search this forum for how to) figure whats happening and yes you can get manualy move it, may require some diassembly.

Use needl nose plyers and try to turn whats left of the handle

That whole panel pops out (forget how but I have on laying atound). If you have a wireing diagram or DMM (volt meter, you can figure out how to jump the circut .

Put the top down and sit on a pillow.

Happy thanksgiving , PK

[Rui725]

sweetness. Gonna that seat out over the weekend. But man, of all problems who would've thought the seat adjustment would make a porsche undrivable.

[pk2]

Technicaly, you should be able to pop that little pannel out and if your electrically inclined at all, you should be able to wind the thing down by crosing some wires. Trick is, I don't remebeer exactly how it pops out. Porshe likes to turn snap fits into puzzels. Lose and you broke it. But, I think you have to replace the whole pannel anyway so...

Regards, PK

[Rui725]

I was hoping perhaps getting it down to a fixed position and leaving it as such. only one position is controlled by the electronics anyways. I'll update this when I figure something out.