W204 passenger seat problem

[ash59fifty-uk]

Apologies, title should read “W204 coupe electric passenger seat problem”

Before loading my car up with a set of new alloys yesterday that I was going out to get swapped over, I noticed a problem with my passenger seat

Normally on the coupe, you tilt the seat forward if you’re getting in the back and the seat moves forward on its runners automatically. However, upon tilting the passenger side forward to put boxes in the rear I noticed the chair only moved forward/back on the left runner only

I went to investigate beneath the seat more, and two round plastic brackets/clips snapped and flew out into the footwell... now the base of the seat comes right off! Only now held on only by a wire.

Anyone personally come across this before? I looked at a few threads across google but no definitive fixes

 

[ash59fifty-uk]

Giving this thread a gentle bump as I’d like to set some time aside soon to fix this

I’m attaching a picture of the cable that is essentially keeping the passenger seat base connected to the car, it’s connected with the yellow plug seen in the photo

If I can get the seat base out the way, I can check the rails a bit better. Does anyone know if unplugging this yellow connector will set off anything, like the airbag etc? @richard would you know by chance?

 

[richard]

It will give you an SRS (airbag) light. Disconnect the battery, wait a bit then disconnect it and do what you need and connect before the battery and you should be OK

Its quite tricky to get that sub-connector out of the overall yellow connector shell.

Richard

 

[ash59fifty-uk]

It will give you an SRS (airbag) light. Disconnect the battery, wait a bit then disconnect it and do what you need and connect before the battery and you should be OK

Its quite tricky to get that sub-connector out of the overall yellow connector shell.

Richard

Thank you mate will give that a try