'02 Mondeo, driver's seat won't go up and down.

[jegs]

Hi i've just bought an '02 Mondeo which has an electrically operated height adjustment on the driver's seat. When I press the switch i can hear the motor going but the seat doesn't move. It is currently stuck at it's highest point. Is there any way of manually lowering the seat? I'm not too fussed about fixing it as long as I can get it back down to it's lowest height setting. Has anyone had this problem before? What did you do?

Thanks.

[mintalkin]

common problem on the mondeo, the drive gears are made of plastic and the teeth strip your options are to replace the gears with secondhand parts as i think ford dont do them as a separate part. try e bay or a scrapyard, not to hard a job to replace the parts

[jegs]

Is it possible to remove the seat and manually turn the threaded rod which connects to the motor to lift the seat up and down? If i could turn the rod to get the seat down i'd be hapy with that.

[mintalkin]

yes you can its fiddley but possible.

[mr.c]

had the same problem with mine - had to take out the seat and manually lower it and put the seat back in again. its a bit fiddly but doable

good luck!

[Temelie]

Is it possible to remove the seat and manually turn the threaded rod which connects to the motor to lift the seat up and down? If i could turn the rod to get the seat down i'd be hapy with that.

Hello, did you managed to solve your issue with the driver seat up/down button.

Mine has the same problem and I wonder what's the cause.

Cheers !

[Focus_ST-3]

Our Mk4 mondeo had the same problem. Turned out to be a nut which had loosened itself in the linkage between the motor arm and the seat base. Took 5mins to fix.