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Thread: Seat Tracks Stuck!
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04-14-2010, 11:00 AM #1Member
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Seat Tracks Stuck!
My driver seat tracks on my 05 Outback are really hard to move forward and backward. Anyone else have this problem? What did you do to fix it?
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04-14-2010, 11:39 AM #2
Unbolt the seat, remove the tracks and clean them out real good. Put a very light coating of moly grease where they contact and in the track groove and reassemble.
2007 Mobius LSV
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04-14-2010, 01:45 PM #3
Must be an 05 thing but I have the exact same seat track problem. I have a relatively simple question on this. How do you loosen the back 2 bolts on the seat? I'm have trouble with this bc the bolts in the back are hidden within the track and therefore I cannot loosen the nuts (bolts are spinning around). Anyone got a simple solution for this? Thanks
Pat L
2005 Outback
Leonardtown, Maryland
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04-14-2010, 01:56 PM #4Member
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Thanks, Razz. I'll get to work on it this evening. PatL, there is a thread I saw where someone installed a swivel base on the seat track. There are some good pictures. You can search for it and it might detail the seat dis-assembly.
Last edited by markcr; 04-14-2010 at 02:07 PM.
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04-14-2010, 02:03 PM #5
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04-14-2010, 02:13 PM #6
Thanks Razzman...I'll try that tonight
Pat L
2005 Outback
Leonardtown, Maryland
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04-14-2010, 02:14 PM #7
Mark missed your post initially I'll search that string as well thanks for the info
Pat L
2005 Outback
Leonardtown, Maryland
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04-14-2010, 11:58 PM #8
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04-15-2010, 12:25 AM #9
I think Ian posted a howto once upon a time for the OB.
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04-15-2010, 10:37 AM #10Member
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Well, I took the seat apart and the seat tracks off and boy were they cruddy. After a good dowsing of brake cleaner followed by some fresh lube, they slide MUCH better now. They still stick in some areas but that has more to due with the cheap materials and design of the pot metal track itself. I can see replacing the whole mechanism at some point. Anyway, it works much better now. Thanks Razzman for the suggestion.