tekin

97 civic passenger seat release problem

hey there i got a 2 door coupe 97 civic and it is becoming hard to get the kids in and out of the back seat since it is a 2 door and we just bought this car, is there a way to get the whole seat to slide forward from the bottom also, cause the black button the side of the seat only makes the back part swing forward and does not move the *** part, please email me if you can suggest anything this is getting nuts

also can anyone tell me a straight across seat swap if not, and the 1 more thing I would like to add in this coupe is a trunk light for my wife

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tekin

what the hell no help off this forum wow thanks guys

95whitej

yea it the metal bar under the front of the seat

tekin

so can i fix that rail or what can I do with the seat and where is that rail

macson

I've yet to see one like that... my passenger seat moves all the way up from the side lever.

tekin

could it be that something is broken underneath

RICKSAUTOMOTIVE

most likely its broken under there or something is not connected. the seat should slide foward when you hit the side lever on the passenger seat to let the seat flip foward. it may be just a spring broken from stuff being jammed under there. possibly the old owners of the car. my mom always has water bottles under the seats. that drives me nuts. you may need to replace the seat track with a junk yard one if its busted

tekin

oh ****, i should pull the seat out and maybe see if I can jimmy something underneath it

patrEK9

there's a lever under the front of the seat that should make it slide forward when you lift it up. i have a 97 coupe too and i'm pretty sure mine has a trunk light, check to see if the bulb went out.

tekin

ok man i understand the front lever slides the bum part forward and back, and the side moves the back part tilts forward and back also, that works but the black lever the higher up one only moves the tilting parting and does not move the base of the seat in one shot, so it make is hard to get the kids in and out unless you manually slide the base forward and I did not see a trunk light in there at all

EJeff8

What does his trunk bulb have to do with his front passenger seat pushing forward?

EJeff8

I have the same problem on my own drivers seat. That lever should fold it down and push forward. You possibly have a bad track of maybe a bad spring. Neither are too serious.

tekin

well come on guys there should be a fix rather than gettin a new seat rail cause there has to be a way to fix the existing one thanks guys for the responses

EJeff8

Dude, pull the seat off and personally inspect it. You won't get anywhere by listening to us assume it's this or that. If you haven't looked, LOOK!

tekin

alright kewl I only asked on here cause I thought someone in cyberspace must have had the same issue/problem at least once

RICKSAUTOMOTIVE

yeah remove the seat? flip it over and see if you see any broken parts. possibly go to a junk yard and find a good one and see what it looks like. compare it to yours

EJeff8

Ah, well nothing does the job better than literally looking at the assembly with it moving to see what part is damaged or missing. It's either a bad track or bad spring it seems so have at it.

patrEK9

are you kidding me? read the guys first post, he asks about putting in a trunk light for his wife. might help to read what the guy is asking before posting in here.

tekin

sorry guys i was making a multi post at the same time my bad man