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Ive Busted my 993 Seat Winder Mechanism

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Hey people, Ive made a bit of a booboo and could use some help from the font of PCGB knowledge please.
I took my front seats out this weekend to give the interior a right good clean out. When i put them back in and tried to move the drivers side forward only one side of the seat moved. I was pretty careful taking it out but ive somehow managed to snap one of the drive cables that turns the winder screw. It looks pretty frayed so maybe it was on the way out
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I will speak to my local indy next week but has anyone had this happen to them? I was wondering about the cost or parts and if its an easy fix to do myself?
Any help or advice would be gratefully accepted. With the seat stuck right back ive been driving with my toes for 2 days and whilst its added an extra degree of excitement
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, its not ideal.

Thanks
Obi


 
Obi you need to glue some extra thick soles on the bottom of your shoes !..[;)] easy fix.

Just kiddin... bad luck by the way. I dread touching mine in case something breaks in my hands [:(]

Isn't there a manual override (lever) to adjust rear/forward movement of the seat ?
 
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Isn't there a manual override (lever) to adjust rear/forward movement of the seat ?
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Tks for reply. I looked and cant find one unless Porsche have made it super small and stuck it somewhere totally out of the way where yu'd never expect it (cue comment about my girlfriends trip to the Esso station to fill the car up and subsequent row over the idiot who designed the fuel flap release; I dont think he will want to re-mount it quite where she suggested).
Anyone else? I cant believe theres been 21 hits on this and none of the uberbrains of the PCGB have come up with anything yet. Aaah well, probably all out on a hoon sincethe weathers so nice.
 
A quick call to you local Porsche centre will confirm whether parts are available seperately, and the current retail price. A quick call to Douglas valley breakers will confirm whether they have any of the parts in stock, and how much.

Both are usually polite and helpful.

I guess the reason for the silence on here is that this is a pretty unusual problem - I do not recall seeing it on here before and I have been lurking around on here since 2003.

The electric seat forward control is quite rare on 993s - most have only squab raising and lowering controls.

It's also worth doing a search on Rennlist. People on there have fixed most things at one time or another.
 
I had electric seat forward/reverse on my old 3.2. It may be different, but on mine there was a screw at the front which took an allan key (in the toolkit) so you could manually adjust it. It was unfortunately necessary as the switches used to burn out especially when the fat b****d mobile valet did it whilst sitting in it.

When I got the 993 I was glad to find they'd removed the electric (or maybe some sensible person hadn't taken the option), I much prefer the manual lever for forward/reverse.

It may be cheaper to get a manual slider fitted, you could probably pick one up cheap from a breakers
 
Tks all. Theres a fix on p-car site that a Pistonheader pointed out to me. tks for the helps all.
 
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