NEVER EVER DO THIS TO YOUR LIGHTNING
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NEVER EVER DO THIS TO YOUR LIGHTNING
Sorry for the caps.
While you're got the back of your seat flung forward trying to change that CD, never pull up on the side seat lever while you push the seat back into position. Remember the lever was the one you get pulled so you could get that seat forward in the first place.
Well you can never lock your seat back to its original position if you do.
Called a couple of ford dealers and they said they never seen this one before, just make an appointment and bring it in tomorrow. The nifty little thing that I didn't tell was I did it to both seats.
Well after about 30 minutes at 85 degrees in a smelly parking lot I finally figured it out.
The problem was that every time I pushed the seat back the little handle in the back of the seat would start out in the down position and as I pushed it forward the little handle would automatically lift itself towards the up position. Bizarre?
Here's the deal, the side handle holds this black bar and the black bar has ridden past its stop. You can see the bar right under the little handle. Pull the side handle and taking a screwdriver push the black bar in to the ride as far as it will go, push the seat back it now locks to the first position pull the little handle in back and it finally locks fully into position.
I don't know if I was the first to find this one out, but Ford needs to fix this one. Recall, Recall!
[This message has been edited by f1car (edited 04-26-2000).]
While you're got the back of your seat flung forward trying to change that CD, never pull up on the side seat lever while you push the seat back into position. Remember the lever was the one you get pulled so you could get that seat forward in the first place.
Well you can never lock your seat back to its original position if you do.
Called a couple of ford dealers and they said they never seen this one before, just make an appointment and bring it in tomorrow. The nifty little thing that I didn't tell was I did it to both seats.
Well after about 30 minutes at 85 degrees in a smelly parking lot I finally figured it out.
The problem was that every time I pushed the seat back the little handle in the back of the seat would start out in the down position and as I pushed it forward the little handle would automatically lift itself towards the up position. Bizarre?
Here's the deal, the side handle holds this black bar and the black bar has ridden past its stop. You can see the bar right under the little handle. Pull the side handle and taking a screwdriver push the black bar in to the ride as far as it will go, push the seat back it now locks to the first position pull the little handle in back and it finally locks fully into position.
I don't know if I was the first to find this one out, but Ford needs to fix this one. Recall, Recall!
[This message has been edited by f1car (edited 04-26-2000).]
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From: Ramona Ca
My dealer did the exact thing to my 2000 L when I picked it up and he couldn't get the seat to stay back. The bad part was it was in the drivers side. After about 20 minutes messing with it, he got it to lock back. He didn't know what he did to fix it though. I thought to myself, man this isn'y s good start but nothing but good since then 
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From: Chesapeake, VA USA
If I remember correctly the "quick" cure is to slide the seat all the way foward and then recline it back as far as you can and then it catches. Might be wrong but there is a simple cure, it happened to some members last summer.
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From: Houston, Tx, USA
4d is right. Never pull the side lever and then pull the back lever. Ractet goes out of sequence and will not reset. Push seat forward and then push back backwards as far as it will go which recyles the latch, then push back all the way forward and then back and it will latch. happened to me last summer and had to go to dealership. Big laugh by all but me. I'd like to have a face to face with the rocket scientiest that thought that up. 
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