My wife thinks I am crazy, but I swear I feel my driver's seat move a bit when going over certain bumps. This is mostly when backing out of the driveway as the car comes down over the curb, I swear I feel a slight shift in the seat bottom. My wife drives the car more than I do and she says she doesn't feel anything. Physically grabbing the seat and trying to move it around, it is solid. Wiggling myself around in the seat doesn't seem to do anything other than make me look like a fool.

I have not raised the seat up to really try to take a visual look underneath yet. I swear this started after the dealer replaced my lower seatbelt buckle to fix the airbag light, although I limited amount of seat time I have with the car may not help narrowing down when it really started. I just happened to start driving it more once winter hit since my wife prefers her car in winter since it is AWD and has remote start. I have not been back to the dealer since then to ask them to look at it yet. Just curious if anyone has experienced this before I go ripping seats out of the car.

 

https://acurazine.com/forums/3g-tl-p...s-seat-634904/

https://acurazine.com/forums/third-g...s-seat-565511/
https://acurazine.com/forums/3g-tl-p...tl-6mt-760608/

 

Thanks...not sure any of those are it yet...I attempted to find those threads myself before posting, but ended up with way to much 2nd gen info instead of 3rd gen. I will ping the dealer in a couple weeks when it goes in next for an oil change and remind them it all started after they replaced my seatbelt buckle. I have not been able to reproduce it on demand yet which is what really stinks and will make finding the source and repairing it quite difficult.

 

it does move around, rarely but hard to duplicate the issue.

 

I feel like mine has a little play in it too. Make sure your seat bolts are tight. I always double check dealer work, if I take it to them, as they are usually a bunch of idiots who don't give 2 shits about your car...

 

Somewhat agree...I have had pretty good luck with my local Acura dealer over the years. But I do understand that really depends on what service tech you get with their level of understanding, competence, and most importantly their overall level of give-a-shit.

I checked the rear bolts since I can easily see them. I have not checked the front ones yet. Keep in mind, I cannot move the seat myself. I have sat in it trying to move it, grabbed it from the back with no movement. I don't know if they had to remove the entire seat when they replaced the belt latch assembly. They managed to trap/smash my phone charger cable under the rear mount and it was after I asked them to free that is when I for sure noticed the behavior. It may have been there prior to that, but I didn't drive the car enough to notice.

 

I have also read that it is play in the seat tracks, or the mechanism that drives the seat forward/backwards. There has to be some tolerance issues in the design that allows the movement. I feel it everyday, being 6mt, shifting, stopping, accelerating. You get used to it but you feel it is there when it happens. Maybe this summer I will dig into it a little.

 

We are talking what feels to be 1/8-3/16 of movement. Not much, but annoying.

 

I noticed mine moving around after I had removed the drivers seat to run my power wire for my sound system and to sound deaden.

It had quite a bit of play and I could feel it shift, nothing specific seemed to replicate it. So I did a little thinking and realized I probably didn't tighten the front bolts all the way back in. Tightening them helped quite a bit, but I still feel the seat shifting a little bit here and there. It's a minor annoyance, but still, annoying none-the-less.

Oh, one thing I found is that the seat shifting lessened a little bit when I reduced the incline on the front of the seat. Not sure if that will help or not.