i needed to remove the driver's seat for my mom to sew the bolster together that got unwoven.

it took me around 1 HOUR to remove this seat and i'll tell you why.
if you ever remove the driver's seat, the nut that is on the right in the rear has a loctite glue around the thread. be careful with it because I stripped mine completely and had to use a special pipe wrench to remove it.

 

What year is your car? I took my driver's seat out in 5 minutes.

 

so did i.. did you get drunk and glue your chair down then try to remove it?

 

my car is a 94. when I took it out, there was red loctite on the thread.
? maybe mine was the only one that was glued, i dunno.

 

it took mine 5 mins too.

 

They all use loctite. You just have bad luck?

Mine came out fine.. Just be careful and slow!

 

so is mine, but both seats came out in 10 minutes.
poor luck there man... use the force next time.... heh heh, the force of a 3 foot extender bar on your ratchet!

 

No, no, no...get it right; THE ASSEMBLER at Acura in Japan got drunk on some 20 year old sake and thought it'd be funny to loctite a bolt on this car to "Upset American Man"...

 

hehehehe stoopid americans

 

Takes me 5 mins to take out both front seats with a good socket. Hummm, I bet if I could fit the airgun in their I could do it in less than 2.

 

Were you using the right sockets? Your weren't using standard sockets were you?

 

my bolts were metric I believe, and the 12mm fit snug, i think i used TOO much force, and thats what caused the stripping.. or I have horrrible luck.

oh well, got the seats back in, looks good as new, but I had to goto canadian tire to get a new bolt that fit,

 

12mm is the right size. Thats weird that they were in that tight. Maybee they were removed by the privious owner, and when he/she reinstalled the bolts, that one was croosed threaded. This would cause it to strip out like that I beleive.

 

It don't take one hour but not five minutes either, I am speaking for the first time.

 

normally it would take me 5 mins per seat, i'd estimate. we were clowning around @ the track and my friend bet me $10 he could get his seats out quicker than me, that's how that happened. With a whole $10 at stake, you tend to work faster, lol.


[Modified by Pb_Foot, 1:01 AM 2/22/2002]

 

I hear you. I just see some understatement of time here and there. Like some people would say it will take 15 minutes to install the Icebox. I am not a moron or anything but it took me much longer than 15 minutes. The second time around, I will probably cut the time in half.