Greetings all,

Just registered, have a question about my wife's seat (no giggling!)...

The thing still has all motions except seat-back recline/incline, and when you attempt to use the switch, there is an obvious vibration and whirr noise—but no movement. Trying to 'help' the thing incline back up isn't working, either.

I don't want to spend an arm and a leg for my local shop to charge me $60/hr in labor to 'research how to fix the problem' (their words), I can do that on my own, thank you very much.

Thoughts?

~OD

 

https://volvoforums.com/forum/volvo-850-16/850-seat-back-cable-repair-16364/
That will show you how to repair it.

 

This process works well, I did it to mine but I want to note that you can do it all from the back entering from the bottom. I did the whole job by just removing the clips from the bottom back. If I had to do it again I would unbolt the seat so I could lift it up for better access.

 

Many thanks to you both; I'm going to try fixing it after finals are done in a few weeks.

I may be something of a vehicular Luddite: I really miss the days of manual-adjust seats and roll-down windows, etc. My first 740 had a crank sunroof

I also loathe ECUs—I can't remember a single day this dang 850 wasn't throwing some sort of CEL or other. I just ignore it now as long as it's in closed-loop mode

Mo' 'lectrics, Mo' problems.

~OD