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Driver seat is shifting

Discussion in '3rd Gen. Tacomas (2016-2023)' started by Taco_Trev, Jan 7, 2020.

  1. Jan 7, 2020 at 12:05 PM
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    Taco_Trev

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    So a few months after I bought my '19, I could feel the driver seat shift when making harder turns or harder braking. Finally got bad enough I could easily replicate it by just shaking seat. Dealership covered it under warranty, they replaced the seat frame. This fixed the issue and the seat has been nice and tight, for maybe two months. Well I'm started to feel it shifting again when I brake or a more sudden acceleration. I'll be reaching out to the dealership again, but before I do, is this a known issue? Is their perhaps something I can look at doing myself, aka easy fix, a bolt that gets loose or what? I'm not huge nor tough on my seats and never had a vehicle with an issue quite like this before.
     
  2. Jan 7, 2020 at 12:12 PM
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    dangeroso

    dangeroso Just float along and fill your lungs

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    I have not heard of this. Front to back or side to side?
     
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  3. Jan 7, 2020 at 12:15 PM
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    pdaddy

    pdaddy WeLl-KnOwN mEmBeR

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    Do you have a manual or electric adjustable chair?
     
  4. Jan 7, 2020 at 12:23 PM
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    Taco_Trev

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    It's front to back. Not much movement so far but you can feel it. Last time started out small then got bad enough you could hear it when it moved.
     
  5. Jan 7, 2020 at 12:24 PM
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    My 2015 and 2019 both seemed to move a bit. Kinda like they're not fully seated in the notch when I adjust it back and forth if that makes sense. The seat frame itself is fine.
     
  6. Jan 7, 2020 at 12:24 PM
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    Manual seats, Its a TRD
     
  7. Jan 7, 2020 at 12:29 PM
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    By front to back do you mean it slides horizontally along the rails, or the seatback wobbles front to back?

    If it's the seatback, you can twist the seatback slightly while reclining (i.e. use your left shoulder to push back on the left side of the seat, while using your right hand to pull the right side of the seatback forward) to get the teeth on one side to lock into a different notch than on the other side. This will remove the slack in the seatback.

    I did this on mine and its totally solid -- zero play.
     
  8. Jan 7, 2020 at 12:39 PM
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    No, mine is the bottom seat cushion area, slides forward and back as if you were raising the bar and trying sit closer to the pedals or further back. I have some play in the seatback, but it doesn't seem excessive.
     
  9. Jan 7, 2020 at 12:51 PM
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    Tacomike18

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    Mine has a little play and you can hear it as you adjust your butt on the cushion so I made the radio louder.
     
  10. Jan 7, 2020 at 12:52 PM
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    Global warming...?
     
  11. Jan 7, 2020 at 12:55 PM
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    DWD484

    DWD484 Could Be Joking

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  12. Jan 7, 2020 at 12:59 PM
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    Ha, I have a buzz that come from the headliner, I just turn the radio louder for that. But seat moving is a little more worrisome, safety wise anyways.
     
  13. Jan 7, 2020 at 1:00 PM
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    Could be, I mean you never know?
     
  14. Jan 7, 2020 at 1:08 PM
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    Have you seen Little monsters? Howie mandel might be down there?
     
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  15. Jan 7, 2020 at 1:13 PM
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    Mine does that every time I adjust the seat position (forward to back).
    It locks in one side, and the other moves around a little until I move my body hard enough to make it lock the second side.
    Could try that...
     
  16. Jan 7, 2020 at 1:18 PM
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    JoeCOVA

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    Common issue. I have the same problem and it just wasn’t worth my time so I just live with it.
     
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    Mine does it too; I'll post once I get around to figuring out why it does it.
     
  18. Jan 7, 2020 at 1:39 PM
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    How fat are you be honest
     
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  19. Jan 7, 2020 at 1:41 PM
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  20. Jan 7, 2020 at 1:44 PM
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    That's a wide vararince. So I;m rounding up to 250 in doctor's math
     
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