One for the S2 Exige owners

scottyf · Post by **scottyf** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:40 pm

Just wondering if anyone else suffers from a drivers seat which moves ever so slightly on the rails, even though its located properly, its starting to really pee me off.

Ok, not a very tech question I know but just curious.

ExigeKen · Post by **ExigeKen** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:43 pm

I have never had that problem in my two years of ownership. Is something stopping it locking into position

scottyf · Post by **scottyf** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 7:00 pm

No, its def locked in position. The seat just tends to rattle ever so slightly, as if the locating holes are too big. Ive checked to make sure the rails are screwed down tight to the chassis. Meant to say theyre the 06 ProBax seats, dont know if there was a change to the rail design???

Digital · Post by **Digital** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 7:18 pm

Not suffered this personally, but I was browsing thru the long-term reports on the Exige in evo recently, and I think they had a similar problem, I think a bolt had worked it's way loose if I recall correctly.

Jamie

kenny · Post by **kenny** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:04 pm

Mine does, I thought it was a case of TADTS

Mr Momo · Post by **Mr Momo** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:17 pm

What about bending the runners a bit tighter or slapping grease all over them ?

jj · Post by jj » Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:02 pm

Mine did that too, as does my current car. I agree its a bit annoying!

Post by ed » Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:14 pm

Im pretty sure mine did that too!

mac · Post by **mac** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:33 pm

On the early S2's you need to "torque" the seat into the runners - let go of bar push hard back with one foot till it clicks and then the other - you will hear it click into place.

Mac

dezzy · Post by **dezzy** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 12:29 am

I've had this checked a couple of times by MMC and Luke at JPS checked it for me too. I'm afraid TADTS. Everything is tight and I don't know why, but it still has movement. Not too bad most of the time, but rocks a bit under heavy braking.

ExigeKen · Post by **ExigeKen** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 7:10 am

dezzy wrote:I've had this checked a couple of times by MMC and Luke at JPS checked it for me too. I'm afraid TADTS. Everything is tight and I don't know why, but it still has movement. Not too bad most of the time, but rocks a bit under heavy braking.

TADTS

Seen that a couple of times on here what does it mean Dezzy.

dezzy · Post by **dezzy** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 7:41 am

They All Do That Sir

ExigeKen · Post by **ExigeKen** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 7:48 am

dezzy wrote:They All Do That Sir

Thanks Dezzy

scottyf · Post by **scottyf** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 9:14 am

dezzy wrote:They All Do That Sir

OK...so how can they reverse engineer something to make it worse....they never did that on the S1

jamie · Post by **jamie** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 9:45 am

I had a Lotus Engineer come up to see the car (the red beast)- I had water ingression and they needed an engineer to approve the work as it was a clam off job.

Turns out they do all do that to a degree - and you can bend them back again but they will just deform again.

I had one of my bolts fail on the passenger seat to so was not very happy about this but Lotus certainly wont be much help if it really annoys you could always get some lighter fixed items and replace the seat bracket. I have heard peeps use Demon Thieves Pug 205 seat rails too - cheap and light.