Looked in the forum to see if anybody had posted the same problem I was having, but couldn't find a posting with same subject.
Last time we parked up for the night we decided to turn our passenger captains chair round, but it was getting stuck when trying to turn it round to face the rear of our van.
I had to really force it round, it felt like something was trapped in the mechanism. The chair did eventually turn round, but I couldn't see anything wrong at the time, it was late at night.
When we arrived home I decided to investigate the seat problem, I opened the passenger door and way be hold the seat plastic trim was hanging off. I wondered what had caused this to happen.
On investigating further, I discovered the culprit, it was a bolt sticking up on the chair mechanism catching on the side trims. I couldn't understand what purpose the bolt served..baffled. I decided the bolt had to go, got my hacksaw out and removed the bolt. I then sprayed painted the cut bolt black.
By the way there is 4 bolts, 2 on each seat. Now gone..and hasn't made any difference at all to the functionality of the chairs..
Last time we parked up for the night we decided to turn our passenger captains chair round, but it was getting stuck when trying to turn it round to face the rear of our van.
I had to really force it round, it felt like something was trapped in the mechanism. The chair did eventually turn round, but I couldn't see anything wrong at the time, it was late at night.
When we arrived home I decided to investigate the seat problem, I opened the passenger door and way be hold the seat plastic trim was hanging off. I wondered what had caused this to happen.
On investigating further, I discovered the culprit, it was a bolt sticking up on the chair mechanism catching on the side trims. I couldn't understand what purpose the bolt served..baffled. I decided the bolt had to go, got my hacksaw out and removed the bolt. I then sprayed painted the cut bolt black.
By the way there is 4 bolts, 2 on each seat. Now gone..and hasn't made any difference at all to the functionality of the chairs..
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I’ve just checked mine & they are indeed like the OP’s, every day’s a school day. However there’s around 3mm clearance between the top of the stud & the side plastic.
