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Fat guy bent my drivers' seat

posted by  Herr Steuben on  Sun Feb 20 04:47 CST 2005
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I have a 88 240 with blue vinyl seats, and the drivers seat has a bad lean to it(leans towards the center) I think the previous owner was a portly fellow, and the seat was bent over the course of 140,000 miles....whatever the cause, is there a way of fixing this without replacing the seat. Has anyone run into this problem? Thanks
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Fat guy bent my drivers' seat

posted by  Philip on  Sun Feb 20 14:17 CST 2005
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When I tried to bend my seat back, it did not stay. As I looked at it, it reminded me of a gate or door that was sagging. So I ran a piece of wire diagonally, like you would to brace a sagging gate. There were two holes in the frame that were in the right locations.








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Fat guy bent my drivers' seat

posted by  someone claiming to be kane on  Sun Feb 20 10:19 CST 2005 [RELATED]

Remove the cover and rebend the wire frame inside.

Such said, it may be easier/cheaper to pluck a seat from the junkyard and just swap the cover over.

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