Broken Front Seat Bolt

[grantley1988 1]

Well my front left drivers seat bolt broke last night Now i just have a hole where the bolt would screw into!

This looks like its guna be a pain to fix. Will i need it to be welded or Is there any type of fitting i can use to tighten the bolt into?

 

Cheers

[JRL 14 1 Cars]

From what you say it sounds like what happened to mine and is common with 205s. Its better to get it welded, but in the meantime I lifted the carpet to access it and put a piece of metal with a hole drilled through acting like a washer. Otherwise take it straight to a welder and get them to spot weld it.

[DamirGTI 342]

If the base on the lower seat frame is sound (without cracks around the nut area ..) , can just replace the nut .. or it may simply fallen off so pop the carpet up an take a look as it's not uncommon .. the nuts are , kinda "slide/press type" into the seat frame , so removable/replaceable :

 

 

 

... still available from pug me thinks , or , can simply weld on a std. nut underneath the seat frame and job done ..

 

Damir

 

(oh , by the way , on a repair seat frame which i've ordered from pug , these nuts where factory welded onto the frame .. so late Ph cars might have them welded on rather than the "slide/press type" as seen above ..)

Edited November 9, 2010 by DamirGTI

[Bogsye 22]

What size are these cage nuts? M8 or M10?

 

Brian

[pug_ham 244 3 Cars]

M8 for the seat bolts.

 

Graham.

[saveloy 8]

205s are death cages in an accident. Fact not fiction.

You'll never weld a captive nut back in there. Lift the carpet, remove the seat and get 2 pieces of thick steel (with an M10 hole drilled through both), drilled for M8 holes at the ends. Clamp the captive nut between the steel, but wedge the edhes with suitably sized nuts(so that there is no tension on the steel bars). Bolt the seat up this way and you will never have to worry about it again.

Take a peek again at the bolt points and it's no surprise you'll piss yourself. It's shocking how flimsy they are. There are thicker bits on sweet wrappers.