Squeaking Driver Seat

[arronm]

I had that once. Never letting her drive again.

[arronm]

Ford fix = floor mat.

[FGMKII]

Ford told me the springs needed tightening got the car back after the service and instead of the squeak, I now get a hard line in my arse and a cracking noise. I have to say with this, the clutch rattling like a sh*tbox, hard to get in gear sometimes and the reverse camera being useless at night I don't think I'll buy another Ford. Pretty disappointing.

[GeGe6]

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.

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

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

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

Before:

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After:

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

Thanks Goran.

My started to creak last week. I will pull it a part next week and do the same.