2002 Concorde electric seat stuck

The driver's side electric seat is stuck and makes a grinding noise when I
try to adjust it. It is stuck with the front part (under my knee area) up
and does not let my legs reach the pedals well. I can adjust the seat back
to sit up or recline and the whole seat will move forward and back. I just
can't get the front part to lower any more. The rear part will go up and
down but not the front. Any suggestions? Help, I can't drive my car like
this!

WR

On Jul 12, 8:53 pm, "wr2002" > wrote:
> The driver's side electric seat is stuck and makes a grinding noise when I
> try to adjust it. It is stuck with the front part (under my knee area) up
> and does not let my legs reach the pedals well. I can adjust the seat back
> to sit up or recline and the whole seat will move forward and back. I just
> can't get the front part to lower any more. The rear part will go up and
> down but not the front. Any suggestions? Help, I can't drive my car like
> this!
>
> WR

I had this happen to me on '00 Intrepid -- unfortunately, in my case
the problem was that something inside the reducer of the electric
motors that drives the worm screw that adjust the height of the front
portion of the seat broke.

The dealer told me that they do not have part listings for the
components of the power seat assembly and that the entire seat would
need to be replaced (I am not positive that this information was valid
-- you may want to double check it).

In the end I found a power seat at a junk yard relatively cheaply
(because the junk yard seat material was completely trashed) and was
able to move the entire assembly that adjusts the seat position
(basically the base of the seat) from the junk yard seat to my "good"
seat.

This solved the problem for me.

Hope this helps,

Alex

"wr2002" > wrote in message
lkaboutautos.com...
> The driver's side electric seat is stuck and makes a grinding noise when I
> try to adjust it. It is stuck with the front part (under my knee area) up
> and does not let my legs reach the pedals well. I can adjust the seat back
> to sit up or recline and the whole seat will move forward and back. I just
> can't get the front part to lower any more. The rear part will go up and
> down but not the front. Any suggestions? Help, I can't drive my car like
> this!
>
> WR

There are a bunch of gears in there, so you've stripped or broken one.
You'll just have to replace it. If you're mechanically inclined, you might
be able to convince it to lower working on it yourself, but if you could do
that, you probably wouldn't have posted this.

On Jul 12, 7:53 pm, "wr2002" > wrote:
> The driver's side electric seat is stuck and makes a grinding noise when I
> try to adjust it. It is stuck with the front part (under my knee area) up
> and does not let my legs reach the pedals well. I can adjust the seat back
> to sit up or recline and the whole seat will move forward and back. I just
> can't get the front part to lower any more. The rear part will go up and
> down but not the front. Any suggestions? Help, I can't drive my car like
> this!
>
> WR

Same thing happened to me once, it was just the little cable had
popped out of the motor, Ide try taking the seat out and seeing if
that is in correctly, if not, try replacing with the passenger motor
or a junk yard motor.

afx wrote:
> On Jul 12, 7:53 pm, "wr2002" > wrote:
>> The driver's side electric seat is stuck and makes a grinding noise when I
>> try to adjust it. It is stuck with the front part (under my knee area) up
>> and does not let my legs reach the pedals well. I can adjust the seat back
>> to sit up or recline and the whole seat will move forward and back. I just
>> can't get the front part to lower any more. The rear part will go up and
>> down but not the front. Any suggestions? Help, I can't drive my car like
>> this!
>>
>> WR
>
> Same thing happened to me once, it was just the little cable had
> popped out of the motor, Ide try taking the seat out and seeing if
> that is in correctly, if not, try replacing with the passenger motor
> or a junk yard motor.

Hi...

If you do use the passenger seat motor, make sure you put that seat
in a nice general "fits all" position first

Take care.

Ken

there is a recall on the dr. seat recliner drive if that helps

Joe wrote:

> "wr2002" > wrote in message
> lkaboutautos.com...
> > The driver's side electric seat is stuck and makes a grinding noise when I
> > try to adjust it. It is stuck with the front part (under my knee area) up
> > and does not let my legs reach the pedals well. I can adjust the seat back
> > to sit up or recline and the whole seat will move forward and back. I just
> > can't get the front part to lower any more. The rear part will go up and
> > down but not the front. Any suggestions? Help, I can't drive my car like
> > this!
> >
> > WR
>
> There are a bunch of gears in there, so you've stripped or broken one.
> You'll just have to replace it. If you're mechanically inclined, you might
> be able to convince it to lower working on it yourself, but if you could do
> that, you probably wouldn't have posted this.