This pretains to the driver's seat. The reinforcing bar attached to the rear, underside of the seat pan has snapped. This bar connects the seat pan bottom to the seat tracks. The broken bar is allowing the seat to move from side to side. The seat and track assembly appears to be loose.
1998 Ford Contour seats complaints
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Seat was repaired because of squeaks and broken stabilizer bar under the seat base. Seat was stabile after repair with no more squeaks. I got into the car today, and as I turned to grab my seatbelt, the seat back suddenly gave way. I can no longer use the back of the seat to support myself while driving. The contour is being taken to smith-cairns ford on 2/11/2002 for repairs. I am not going to pay for the repairs becasue I think that ford shoud consider this a safety defect. I have never had a car, only 4 years old with 76,000 miles and have a problem like this with the seats.
Was driving when driver's seat collapsed backwards without warning. This caused driver to contact visibility with road. Lost control of vehicle. Vehicle was declared totaled. Contacted manufacturer & informed someone will get in touch.
Driver's side and passenger's side seat track and anchor system is rusting out. Dealer has not been contacted .
When making sudden stops driver seat slides forward. It also moves from side to side. Dealer has seen vehicle several times, and could not duplicate problem.
Consumer's vehicle was at a intersection and another vehicle veered into it. Consumer and his wife was throwen forward. Seat was knocked at a 45degree angle. Seat belt broke and latch failed. Also, the driver's seat and passenger's seat broke. Dealership was aware of the problem. There were miner injuries.
1)driver's power seat rocks from front to rear, replacing seat track made problem worse. 2) vents located to clear side window of fog do not operate when heat selector knob is set to hot.
Coil spring on the right front of car broke. Replacement of the following was necessary: shock absorber, cb spring, d boot, bearing assemnbly, aa seat, mounting assy, halfshaft assembly, cv joint assembly, brake shoes, disc brake rotor, tires.
Driver's seat moves back unexpectedly due to broken pivots which may cause loss of vehicle control. Dealer fixed driver's and passenger's seats on numerous occasions, but could not determine the cause of the problem. Please provide further information.
Drivers seat back collapses while driving. Nlm
In a crash driver's seatback broke, causing injuries to occupant. *ak
Consumer had rear end collision, and both front seats collapsed backward. Consumer injured his back.
While driving driver's seatback broke, causing the seat to fall back, and the driver lost control of vehicle. Also engine cut off system malfunctioned, engine did not shut off at the time of the crash. Please provide further information.
While traveling driver's seatback surport broke ,causing consumer to lay down whiel, vehicle was still traveling. Please provide further informaton.
While seating in driver seat the back support callapsed, consumer fell backwards.
Welding snapped at seat frame causing drivers seat to fall backwards. Nlm
Loose seat track, I fear that it may fail during cornering and cause a crash.
The driver's seat rocks back and forth as if the entire unit is loose. I have been told that it might be the system that mounts the seat tracks to the bottom of the car. If I have a collision and the seat track breaks loose will I be protected?
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The seat track of the contour allows the seat to rock back and forth considerably, especially during braking and accelerating. I have never experienced a seat that rocked back and forth like this. So I brought it to the attention of the dealer. The dealer checked for problems and foud none. The loose seat persists and when I asked the dealer about it again I was told that it is 'normal' for the the seat to seem loose and rock back and forth on this car. This doesnt seem right to me, it is very disconcerting especially since over time the seat rocks more and more. I am concerned that eventually it will come loose completely.
Driver's seat collapsed into the rear seat upon impact of a rear end collision while travelling approximately 30 MPH. Upon impact, my seat collapsed back, and I had no protection from neck and back injuries.
The driver's seatback collapsed into the rear seat upon a rear-end collision when I standing still in traffic. The other driver rear-ended my car at approximately 30mph. Significant back and neck injuries resulted.
The vehicle was rearended by another vehicle and both the driver's and the passenger's seats collapsed. Dealer has not seen the vehicle.
While driving at 20 MPH, a vehicle stopped in front of the consumer's vehicle, causing the consumer to be rearended from behind. The consumer's seat broke in half, causing the consumer to lose contact wiht the pedal. Vehicle ended up hitting another vehicle in front. Consumer received minor injuries. Contacted the dealer.
A large portion of back split 40/60 fold down seatis very difficult to latch into upright position. It take snumerous attrmpts at slamming the seatback, using a lot of force before the latch will catch.
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