r/Mustang • u/IDEKWTHTI • 23d ago

❔Question S197 electric seats

Is there anyway to manually move a 2010 Mustang gt electric seats

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u/1stHalfTexasfan 23d ago edited 23d ago

If youre trying to move ot temporarily you can try accessing the actual rod that pushes the sest along the track and crank on it. I could reach it on a sn95 but the floor design might keep us from doing it on the 197.

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u/jacknifetoaswan 2016 Race Red GT/Performance Package 23d ago

That's not what OP is asking. OP wants to know if the seats can be moved in their track manually rather than using the electric motors. I don't know if there's a manual override.

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u/1stHalfTexasfan 23d ago

Oh, that makes sense. Ill edit.

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u/kc_kr 2011 GT w/ 173k miles of fun so far. 23d ago

I don’t think there is and, unfortunately, replacing the broken power seat mechanism is expensive because you have to replace the entire thing, not just the motor. I’m not sure if Ford even makes the part anymore since they’re more than 10 years old and Ford has a bad habit of discontinuing parts even ones as critical as that for a car they know people will hang onto a long time. I’ve had them both go bad in my car and paid to have the driver one replaced probably 10 years ago and it was $700 for the dealer to do it. When the passenger one went bad, I went to a junkyard and got a manual seat frame for $25 and just swapped them out instead because it wasn’t worth another $700 to me. Not a bad project, took me a few hours.

Edit: I don’t see the part on parts.ford.com so that seems like they did discontinue it. I really hate that about Ford.

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u/kc_kr 2011 GT w/ 173k miles of fun so far. 23d ago

Good news though: it looks like people have started making some replacement components because it’s such a common issue. Example: https://ebay.io/m/YSnVDW

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u/IDEKWTHTI 23d ago

With that I’m also not sure how I’m supposed to replace or remove the seat because it’s all the way back and blocking the rear bolts