Squeaking Driver Seat

[coolfgxr6t]

My driver seat has started squeaking a little and is driving me crazy. I love everything about the car its a shame this little issue is what is the most annoying. Just wondering whether this is common and will ford replace it on warranty? or is there an easy fix? seat is leather if that makes any difference.

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[.Stripes.]

According to a thread on AFF I was reading about this one of the guys said the following:

"If you check the "FG What problem have you had" thread, it is mentioned several times.

Someone took pics and it's the pissy spot welds letting go.

If you undo the 4 bolts holding the base to the rails, then tighten them again, it will stop creaking for about 20mins!

(The nuts are actually 1/2".....)

If you have a repoire with you local Ford dealer, have them mig some extra welds onto the base and if the car is out of warranty, pull your seat base out and have it welded up.. You wont need to buy another base this way!!"

The original FG problems thread on AFF can be seen here:

http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthread.php?t=11224789

Edited 23/04/14 07:30 AM by dowen

[boost69]

Sounds like seat base to me...definitely covered under warranty if you have it...the base tends to crack right where the bolts are that fix the base to the rest of the seat...

If out of warranty you can weld washers to the each of the four points on the seat base...though this depends on how big the cracks are...

[***VX*R8***]

Mine does the same thing. It's soooo annoying. Car is hopefully going in for warranty work on Monday so I'll see what they say.

[xr6tnv]

Mine only started doing this the other day too ! Unfortunately no warranty on my BF so I'm going to have to keep and eye to see if it continues, seems to be a common problem on the pan of the seat where the weak welding breaks away :(

[coolfgxr6t]

Went to ford yesterday and is booked in to get it fixed under warranty. im also getting the gear knob replaced because the leather is loose. when I was buying this car a squeaky seat n loose leather on gear knob were the last problems I was looking for haha.

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[coolfgxr6t]

Ford fixed the seat and replaced gear knob. they also replaced diff bushes and also tail shaft because they said it had two much play in it or something. is this common or is it because I drive my car pretty hard haha?

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[Boganspeed]

My seat occasionally squeeks when the motor is lowered all the way down.

I fix it by raising it just off the bottom.

[XtRmn8]

My seat occasionally squeeks when the motor is lowered all the way down.

I fix it by raising it just off the bottom.

This worked for me for a while but now it does it even if a raise it a bit.

Will have to pull my seat out to have a look at what is going on.

[XtRmn8]

The driver’s seat on my FG has also been squeaking for a long time. Last two scheduled services I brought it up and got the same reply and fix from Ford, we tightened some loose bolts. This Ford “fix” is good for a few weeks.

Pulled the seat out this morning and this is what I found. Sorry its a bit picture heavy, but I thought it might be useful for others.

These are some pictures of the seat base welds that are prone to cracking. Luckily in my case all the welds look to be ok.

This is the top 4 corners of the seat base (seat base foam removed). All welds look good to me.

This is the bottom 4 corners of the seat base. All welds look good here too.

I noticed the seat base spring tensioners in the below pic creak when you apply pressure, where they rub against the seat base.

Fix for creaking base tensioners is to put some hard U shaped rubber between the spring and the seat base metal.
Before:

After:


Now to what I believe was the cause of the my seat creaking and what Ford service were fixing by tightening bolts.

The seat base bolts to the seat frame via 4 bolts as can be seen below. These 4 bolts were not very tight and the seat base could have easily moved around with my weight in it.

Fords solution here it to simply use a single nut for the jobs, which is obviously not working as it comes lose over time.

Here is a close up of one of the 4 problem locations where the base is tightened to the frame, all 4 were in the same state. The wear I believe is from torqueing the bolts down and also the movement when they go loose. Also note the silver bits of metal on the black frame, this can only be from the seat moving around and grinding the metal away.

This is my fix to hopefully stop these from going loose. Flat washer followed by a spring washer and than the original nut.

While pulling the seat apart I also found that the two bolts on each side that attach the seat back to the seat base were not very tight at all. Below are the bolts I am talking about.


A lap around the block and no creaking or squeking what so ever from the seat any more. Hopefully this fix lasts a bit longer than the Ford fix.