My electric seat in my 850 is fully reclined, and wont go back up. It just clicks - sounds like a relay or bad solonoid. The seat works in every other direction except for the seat back going up. How do I fix? Part numbers? I need to know, I have a big trip tommorrow! Thanks!

Jon

HI I had my seat repaired at a shop in Ca. The tech connected some hose to the cable in the seat and re attached cable. The seat works perfect now and it took him 15 minutes.949 350 5256

no way is that a 15 minute job if the cable is broken

the entire seat skin needs to be peeled back

2 hours

Yeah its at least 2 hours to do a cable fix, if you know what you're doing. Must be talking about some other work done....

Mike

dose the motor run at all in front or back positions??

It may be your seat back cable, there is a sqaure "male" end of the cable on the motor side and the gear side that both goes into a "female" end. over time
due to expansion and contraction the cable floats out of the female end just
enough for it not to turn, its kind of like a bike cable but with square ends
on both sides

goto volvospeed.com look for bay13, there is a step by step repair
in the mean time you may be able to click back click by click,

the repair takes a couple hours but can be done by a do it your selfer.

hardest part is removing the hog clips that hold the seat on.

do a search on this site "seatback cable" tons of info

I end up cutting 10mm off of the cable housing which lengthed the cable
that forces the "male" end deeper into the "female" ends.

you will need to remove the cable just slide the cable part way out
of the housing, heat up the end cap with a lighter, slid the cap off
than clip the plastic black housing 10mm or so than slid the end cap
back on, than I took a dremel/grinder to both ends to sqaure up any
rounded edge do to stripping.

If you try this repair your self make sure the motor works first,
remove the cable from the gear side and reach around see if the
sqaure end rotate.

good luck

how would one go about clicking it back to upright, as a temporary fix? should you just push it back, or do it while the motor is running?
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Matt in MA, '93 850 GLT, matto815@aol.com

Also remember to actuate the seatback switch in both directions and try to sync up the seatback with where the switch has positioned it because there is a memory function for the seat and seatback that only allows it to move as far as the computer is programmed to let it move. If you don't do this you have will have limited seatback movement and need to reprogram the seat's memory computer which is another big hassle. I just cut the old HogRings off the seatback's bottom and when I was done with the repair I used heavy duty nylon tie-wraps to resecure it in place, worked great and much easier than refastening with HogRings (if you can find them). Good luck ........ Mike