I dropped a bolt that went under the back seat. I pulled up on the front of the seat on both sides removed the rear seat. out. Now I cannot lock one side of the seat into place. I weigh only 180 pounds and slammed my weight to try to pop the friction lock into place. The right side finally popped into place but I am not heavy enough to lock the left side into place. Do I need a special tool? (or a much fatter person?)
The holes that those front-edge wire loops go into have little white plastic grommetty things that provide the click when the loop goes in all the way. Sometimes the grommetty thing can get bent out of shape as you're pulling the seat up, and then not have a good click anymore when you put the seat back in. (At the other extreme, sometimes one of the grommetty things will decide its job wasn't just to provide a click but to completely refuse to let you pull the seat up until you come back with a two-by-four. Then the white thing's thoroughly mangled by the time you get the seat out.) Sometimes you can take the white thing out of the hole and examine it, and mash it back into a working shape and put it back and then the seat will click in again. If you can't, you can buy a new white thing at the dealer.
Don't keep slamming into the sea You will bend the seat frame metal like above You can reach under with a finger and make sure that you're in the clip and then just smack it and it should drop right in You're missing the white clip with the wire hoop that needs to drop in it and if you keep slamming on it you're going to bend it in such a way that you're going to have to take the channel locks to it to straighten it.
I did reach my finger in and could feel that the the wire loop was started into the hole where it goes. I will examine the plastic piece to see if it is deformed. I have had trouble before with these seats. Maybe I will leave it unlocked for the next time I drop a bolt. Thanks for answering.
It's hard to post pictures here but I have a '09 where somebody bent the whole seat frame trying to pound it in I guess they probably bent it actually trying to pull the seat up rather than putting a little something to pry with right at the clip they were pulling up on the corner they bent the whole seat metal frame portion and it'll never get bent back down anyway. And it's a leather car too oh well it's a work vehicle so it doesn't matter.
