Electric seat fault

Just found another quirk of my Disco 1 that I just bought; It is the ES model with electric heated front seats and the passenger seat will not move backwards. It goes forwards but not backwards......... so before long when people try move it, it will be stuck in the furthest forward position possible and be no good.

The button pushes backwards but the seat doesn't move anywhere or sound like it is trying to move but just cant. Doesn't move when given a little gentle persuasion either.

Any ideas on the fault and what I can do to test / repair it?

Probably just a faulty switch, my drivers seat only moves backwards.... gotta be careful incase someone moves it n i cant reach the peddles :lol:

Switches have been known to fail, then relay and motor both of which are under the seat. Check the 12v supply and compare with the working seat, there maybe a electrical diagram around but I haven't seen it,

Been looking for a replacement seat switch but having no joy finding one. Other than ebay does anybody have any recommendations of where you can get parts like this?

The other alternative is to do a seat swap. What seats can you use that are a direct swap over? Just dont want to lose the heated seats though.

Jonabonospen said:

Just found another quirk of my Disco 1 that I just bought; It is the ES model with electric heated front seats and the passenger seat will not move backwards. It goes forwards but not backwards......... so before long when people try move it, it will be stuck in the furthest forward position possible and be no good.

The button pushes backwards but the seat doesn't move anywhere or sound like it is trying to move but just cant. Doesn't move when given a little gentle persuasion either.

Any ideas on the fault and what I can do to test / repair it?

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doesn't sound like the switch if it is trying to move, i had this with my electric window, would move down but not up took it apart and gearbox needed a nudge and worked again, maybe the worm gear needs to be realined and re greased?

Well with the help of this old thread:

http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f8/discovery-es-electric-seat-problem-54807.html

and the advice on it from "ninjadingle" (post 3), I have now got a working passenger seat switch.

I first did a check on the motors by taking both switches out of the centre console and plugging the drivers switch in to the passenger side (you have to do this upsidedown for the connector to fit) and the seat moved back. So that clearly meant the motors were fine but just the switch that had an issue.

I took the passenger switch apart, cleaned the offending connectors inside, and made sure all the ball bearings were in the correct places. Put it back together, refitted it, and bingo-bango...... a working seat.

Brilliant, well done. Got to love a happy ending

Well done, just shows that searching the forum works.