Help! I have removed the washers under the seat and they now won't slide!

[Reed67]

Hi can anyone help me please. I have removed the washers under the front seats so they sit a little bit lower. However now the seat won't slide forward and backwards. Is this because the runner is now on the carpet?

I see a few people on here have done it so how did they get this to work? Is it just a case of loosening the bolts underneath a little rather than cranking them up?

Many thanks everyone!

 

[Sheila’s’ Wheels’]

You either have to force the seat with all your might, or trim the carpet.

Don't loosen the bolts.

 

[Reed67]

Okay in that case the washers are going back in aha

 

[Steven103]

Is this because the runner is now on the carpet?

I see a few people on here have done it so how did they get this to work?

Three things stop the runners sliding smoothly:

1) touching something.
2) being anything but perfectly parallel (manufacturing tolerances of seat, the order in which you tighten the bolts up, manufacturing tolerance of the lever) - it's really not a very robust design and a lot of opportunities for things to become a little misaligned.
3) being full of crap.

Well worth taking the time to do bolts up slowly in a cross pattern & wiggle the seat around as you do it or maybe have a few goes, remove/clean/lubricate the rails, get all the hair/carpet/crap out of the slider mechanism etc etc

 

[Fantom]

Or use some thinner washers?