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Picked up an Aero interior on eBay at a pretty reasonable price, it showed up the other day, upholstery's in decent condition.
Put the back seat in, no problem.
Put the right-front seat in, and the back wouldn't go up and down and one side of the backrest wouldn't recline.
Pulled it back out, wired up a cable to power it from my jumpstart battery, tried it out, started looking around.
The sleeves for the flex-cables that drive the gearboxes for the backrest recline were broken, allowing the cable to pop out of the gearbox. The up/down-motor for the rear of the cushion was intermittent, and the switch was dead - looks like the owner of the Aero had beat the switch to death to try to make the rear of the seat move.
The old seat that came out of the car was mostly functional (the recline didn't work at all) but it had the memory-brainbox in it, so all the switch wiring and etc. was different - I couldn't just borrow pieces. So I had to swap the entire drive assembly and switch onto the Aero seat.
More work than I wanted, but it works fine (the backrest problem proved to be the brainbox, so I robbed the one out of the old driver's seat) and so I've now got a right-front Aero seat with the three-position memory setup.
The left-front Aero seat had another bad motor and another bad switch, but in this case I was able to swap the parts straight across from my old left-front seat.
Before the driver's seat goes back in, I'll take advantage of the empty floorpan space to crawl under the dash and swap in the telescoping-steering-column bits. Seems like the first couple years of airbag cars got non-adjustable steering columns set up to keep the wheel as far from the driver as possible, but after a couple years' experience with airbags they put it back. I'm tall enough that I've got plenty of distance to the wheel no matter what.
posted by 198.144.20...
, Sun, 6 Mar 2005 10:55:17
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