2010 Rogue jammed manual driver seat adjustment

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Was cleaning out under the seat of my 2010 Rogue this weekend, and felt a screw hanging down through one of the holes in the bottom of the seat track.

Since I am a sucker for punishment, I decided that it needed to be removed. After 'screwing' with it for about 10 minutes, I could no longer see the screw. Thought I would try to help the situation my moving the seat farther up, to see if the screw would be visible and perhaps retrievable, but instead the screw got jammed in the track and I could not move the seat either forward or backwards.

Fortunately, the seat was in a position in which I could still drive, albeit a little uncomfortably. Perfect position for my wife, though, so at least I wouldn't have to listen to her b**** about it. But it really bothered me that I couldn't move the seat!

So I tried to see if I could 'force' it from being jammed. No dice. And I'm 6'2" about 300lbs, I couldn't get this thing to budge. Decided it was time to walk away before I broke something.

Attacked it again today. Read on some forums that the next best thing to do was to remove the seat. At least then we can see exactly what we are dealing with, and perhaps even have whatever was jamming the track fall out. However, this is a no go, as the screws to remove the seat on the front side were accessible, but the rears were not at all. You need to be able to move the seat up in order to access these. s***.

So I set up some lighting under the seat and decided to have a look. I couldn't really see what was causing the issue, but saw a clear shot from front to back, and what looked like a screw, so I got a long flat screwdriver, as well as some aluminum fence wire (its about 1/8" wire that is pretty stiff, but bends easily). Managed to get the wire all the way through the seat track. Also found a hack saw blade that had the right width and is pretty rigid, so I also pushed from the front, and managed to move the offending screw. Then used my aluminum wire to push the screw all the way out the back. There's some grease in the track, so that helped the wire stick to the screw and get it to move all the way back.

And now my seat works again. YAY!

So, word to the wise, don't let any screws or other foreign objects fall into your seat track!

[Ozzie]

Wise words indeed!