creaky drivers seat

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chrisw99
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Ok I've searched and found knocking seats and creaky steering wheels, but nothing about creaky drivers seats.

My drivers seat occasionally creaks, but recently has been getting worse. I can be sat in the car on my drive and all I have to do is shift myself slightly, even just moving my arm to the gear stick, causes a big creak - a bit like the kind of creaky door effect in horror films.

I've tried tightening up everything I can see, but I'm wondering if it's just those big springs under the seat stretching a bit - and if so is there any fix other than replacement?
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chrisw99
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No one else got a creaky drivers seat then?
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Post by Deleted User 3871 »

Chris,

Your issue could still be the same as the knocking noise we get from a seat, it may just be at a different stage of wear. From my understanding the base of the seat has rivets that were never tight or strong enough and move slightly but causing lots of noise. I would imagine you would have to remove the lower part of the seat & disassemble it and then try to tighten or even weld the rivets / joints.
chrisw99 wrote: Thu Nov 01, 2018 12:10 pm No one else got a creaky drivers seat then?
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Post by gvmdaddy »

Mine creaks like mad. Over small bumps, potholes, around corners and accelerating. Got considerably worse over the last 12 months. You learn to live with it eventually.
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Post by MikeGC »

this seems familiar - didn't someone on here get a new driver's seat installed ?
Happy to be proved wrong, may be I imagined it !!
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Post by gvmdaddy »

Oddly enough it’s nothing to do with either the seat frame or the springs in the seat base, it’s actually something to do with the seat back. Drive along a stretch of road where you know it always squeaks but take your weight completely off the seat back/upright and you’ll not encounter any aggravating noises. It’s not the lumbar support either, so it can only be the springs in the seat back.
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Post by chrisw99 »

The springs in the back could well be the culprit - I'll check that out. Hadn't considered that and I've been concentrating underneath. My son does tend to kick the springs a lot.

However, I have noticed I can alter the creakiness a lot by lowering/raising the seat to different levels - the seat back wouldn't be affected by this. I used to be able to get rid of it completely by having it at a lower height than I normally would, but even that's started creaking so I'm back to my preferred full height.
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I had my seat (lower portion) replaced under warrantee. Fixed the creaking problem.
MikeGC wrote: Thu Nov 01, 2018 2:53 pm this seems familiar - didn't someone on here get a new driver's seat installed ?
Happy to be proved wrong, may be I imagined it !!
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Daewar wrote: Fri Nov 02, 2018 12:48 pm I had my seat (lower portion) replaced under warrantee. Fixed the creaking problem.
MikeGC wrote: Thu Nov 01, 2018 2:53 pm this seems familiar - didn't someone on here get a new driver's seat installed ?
Happy to be proved wrong, may be I imagined it !!
Cheers, it wasn’t my imagination !!
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Post by Terry64 »

I had a creaky drivers seat made creaking noise when I made turns and my weight shifted in the seat, they said it was a loose bolt, I now have the same problem with the front passenger seat and I can not find any loose bolts in that so it is in for service this week and that is on the list of things to be checked.
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