Power seat just stopped working

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tm624
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Car: 1993 300ZX 2+2

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My driver seat on my 93 has never had any problems. I was moving it forward, and it just stopped dead. None of the switches work, and all motors worked before. I checked under the seat to make sure a wire didn't get pinched, or a harness came unplugged. Fine there. Went to check the fuse box on the kick panel, and there is no fuse shown for the seats? Did some more searching and found that there is a fusible link by the battery. Changed that with a new one, and still nothing. Checked everything else in the car, and all electronics work. Just not the seat.

Any ideas? Now I can't drive the thing until the seat gets moved. Is there another fuse somewhere?

Every search I tried only talked about switches not working, or partial seat failure.


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NolimitZ32
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So have you checked the switch?

tm624
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They were a bit dirty, and I cleaned them while I had them apart. Still nothing. Neither switches work. Really aggravates me because everything worked flawless before. Going to try and check wiring with a voltmeter if it would stop raining. Is there another fuse besides the 30A link I could be missing?

tm624
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Think I may have found the problem perhaps. Pulled the seat and inspected everything. Found this inside the harness plug for the seat......

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Anyone have a driver side manual seat rail assembly for sale? Lol.

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fabbio25
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fabbio25 wrote:Same thing happened to me.
http://www.czp.us/Cart/description.php? ... .57.234.10



daaaaaang 260 bucks . id be looking for a used one....

what exactly when wrong with the plug?

tm624
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I don't know. The plug is the only answer I can come up with for now. Not even sure if it actually is the problem, but looks like a good contender. Also, the plug in the picture I posted looks like it was spliced in by the p.o.. You can see the wires off to the right. I like the power seat, but if this is going to be a constant headache, I'd rather just swap in some manual rails and be done with it.

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nexus08
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If it was me, and I couldn't get the right connector, I'd just go to radio shack for some of these -

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index ... Id=2103499

The wires are pretty easy to figure out. The two thick ones are the power to the seat motors, black being ground. The two thin ones are to the seat belt to indicate if you have it on or not.


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