RE: [T3] Seatamajig

["Carver" <carver@ncwebsurfer.com>]

I thought it was a fairly clever design.  An automatic seat release!
The only time you wanted the seat to release was when the door was
open, so why have that option?

It suffered from metal fatigue after a number of years.  The cable
got stiff from lack of regular service, got hard to slide, and the
metal lever on the front door pillar would bend.  Mine worked with a
little lubing when I got the square.  It became obsolete when I
replaced the seats with later high backs for safety reasons.
It did get in the way of stuffing stuff under the seats too.

The cable end goes into a receiver at the base of the seat back.
You can see if the cable functions by holding onto the end of
the cable and opening/closing the door (a feat for a contortionist!)

Jeff '67 Sqbk

-----Original Message-----
Riddle me this: what the hey is the cable hooked to the underside of the
driver's seat? It appears to release the seatback so it can tilt forward.
Why isn't there just a
release on the seat itself...and where does the other end of this cable go?

An answer -
That's one of VW's more curious designs there.....there's a small lever at
the front of the door sill, on the bottom. It's attached to that cable so
that when you open the door, it allows you to flip the seat forward. When
the
door is closed, the seat won't flop over while you drive. A fairly complex
arrangement (that usually doesn't work anymore) which was replaced by the
more sensible lever on the seatback later on.

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