 hey guys welcome back to another repair video this this one's mine actually an old two BMW 530i and for a while now it's been a while this seat well it's doing the twist twisty thing now if i'm gonna work the the back only okay with this button here it's only working the left side of the seat you see this side this side is not moving only this side is moving let me show you why now i bet you if this was if this happened this was actually my fault okay because of the child seat in the back icon i kept pushing it a little bit you know you got to go all the way you know and then one day it snapped actually i didn't hear really hear anything snapping but it just quit working on one side so it's been you know doing the twisty twisties for like two years now and i bet you if that happened on the driver's side i probably fixed it right away but since you know i didn't care not my seat it's been a while anyways let me show you why that happens so very simple stuff there's four bolts holding down the seat these are t50 torx bits okay so as you can see or not there's one bolt there another one there to get to these all you gotta do is remove these this one is for the the far side just gotta here bend these back a little bit be careful not too much these plastics will come up just on the back there and nothing really the plastic can stay on the front just move the seat back obviously for the rears move the seat forward for the fronts move the seat all the way back undo the four and check this out okay hopefully you're gonna see this we're looking at this gear like thing over here okay i'm gonna move the seat you see it move right that's the good side and that's the bad side not moving when you see the black cable this guy here you maybe not be able to see that now but that's gonna there's a mechanism inside there that's what broke the cable that drives the the thing broke away from this guy here so we gotta take this out the whole seat and this thing whatever this is this needs to come off there's a pin there's a pin right there i'm gonna figure that out in a second how to take that off i'll let you know and then this plug here this just this little tab just you know pry it out come this kind of cover comes out to protect the plug then you gotta simply pull on the black thing there like i did just now this guy and this should unplug there we go one hand obviously support the seat okay i'm gonna take a little tab out and i'll let you know how i did it all right guys before you remove or unplug it raise the seat up all the way this way up so you have more space in this area here so if you want to take out the seat fully out of the car there's a torx bit right here this guy here you can take that out i believe it's the same side the t50 torx bit so this belt will come out and then you can you know everything is including this thing you can then fully take the seat out this guy is very simple there's this pin you twist it just use a little screwdriver or whatever twist this part down away from from this and then just take the drive the pin out and this comes out i have no idea what this is for if you do know let me know german engineering no idea anyways excuse the noise it's the heater now i believe these little hooks need to come out to remove this fabric or there's fabric leather here okay so this will come down there's one two three six six of them so i'm gonna straighten these out then this leather will come out and then i'm gonna have access to the little phillips bolts which are just there okay so we're trying to get inside this this mechanism okay where this cable goes inside that's the plan guys we got updates and i hope you watch the whole video and you didn't just go step by step and pause you know and and did something that i did and then on pause and watch the few minutes and then did it again because i ended up i aimed for the wrong side of the cable but if that's your issue you at least know how to take the other end apart which is right here and that's not it in my case this is still attached this side of the cable and uh yeah this plastic piece well that's that's a son of a b to take out the little five little phillips screws as you can see i pushed this sponge whatever you sit on kept it away this is not easy by the way with this little block of piece of plywood really and once you take these five of the the back one is the hardest but once you break it loose it's easy you kind of stick a screwdriver behind these green springs here and uh you know undo that so that i gotta put back when i'm done it's not gonna be easy and the culprit is right up top i swear each time i record the heater comes on so this is this is the guy this is the issue you see it's twisted off you see how messed up this is and you can see it being all mangled up inside there yeah so to take that out there's two little eight mil bolts they look like this eight mil and screw the two the motor will become one side of it will become loose okay like so you can see it move then this will pop out oh yeah and do the harness first two plugs on top and this kind of just goes inside there it's actually some glue or grease on disaster what's this what is a silicon oh and uh hitler left us an old it was right up here let's see what it says and i found a feather underneath the seat what is this titan silver metallic i guess that's the color of the leather and what is this can you see can you guys see this that's one word uh yeah all i know is in german is uh good and titan scheiße and it's fine right all right so this basically pops in and then the bracket that's on the motor catches this this lip over here and keeps it in place so what we're gonna do you can see that this is kind of a crimper kind thing that you can see it's crimped there so we're gonna do it we need to we basically need to shorten this a little bit get the good piece out and clean out that hole there in the motor as you can see we have a bit of slack so we can use that you know no no need for a new cable guys okay just uh you know use what you got so what i'm gonna do i'm gonna hit the metal part heat it up with a small torch and pull this away the the plastic is gonna this side this cable is gonna melt a little bit or soften up and then i'm gonna pull this away cut it a little bit and then uh cut this clean so make sure it's a nice square she's make sure this is a nice square this turns and makes the you know seat twist and put this back on heat it up put it back put it back on and shove it in there now i should probably mention the beginning of the video what i should have said is watch the whole thing but that's too late but one thing you should do before you unplug it well you know you can plug it back up make sure the seat the back seat is even okay because once we put that in there that's it you know the two are gonna come together and that's how your seat is gonna move together the both sides so i'm going to plug it back in and make sure the seat is the back the you know the back support is straight well see and quick okay that's hot now we have a better view of this guy here here now i need to cut some of this well i don't well let's see how deep this thing has to go in for it to work let's say maybe like three eighths three eighths of an inch this is three eighths so this this much that's actually exactly how far this is sticking out so check this so this is how much so we got to take you know an eighth of an inch to kind of grind this off at just a bit make it square probably not maybe maybe not even necessary yeah probably not even necessary to make this square so what i'm gonna do to make this stick out this much because remember it was right here right so so if that was here this little amount was not enough i'm talking just that so we need this whole thing so we basically need to cut cut it right here the length of this guy here so about another three eighths so that's where i'm going to cut it there goes the here again just cut it nicely without cutting this guy obviously that would be bad news and i don't want to know how much it costs there we go now what we got to do is put this back i'm going to clean the inside a little bit the plastic the melted plastic or whatever this is it is plastic get rid of that so it goes in nice and smooth probably use a lighter to heat this up if you don't have a torch actually i'm gonna heat it up separately away from the plastic all the way all the way all right that's too much it's a bit much all right so don't do what i just did don't push super hard because that rubber thing will come out or push out a bit but that's okay i'm gonna let this cool the melted plastic is gonna keep this keep this cable from coming out and now should be good to stick it back in oh no never mind actually it's a little hot so now i'm gonna plug it back in and make sure that seat is straight so i gotta go to a break commercial break guys update i got good news and i got some bad news when you after you pop in that cable and you're ready to tighten up that the first eight mil bolt make sure you push up on the little motor so the cable the cable is nice and tightened there so check this out nice fixed now we're gonna work the front of the seat right that was the part part of the back which is the bad news now it's doing the twisties on the bottom part of the seat this this side is not moving this motor is not you can see that part it's going down and this guy not moving at all hmm so i'm gonna figure this out and i'll let you know figure it out same same deal so same story you want to plug it back in if you don't have it plugged in even the seat i'll take a seat you know i actually whenever i even this seat out i actually remove all my tools put it down in good spots you know where the bolts go i don't put the bolts in just have a seat and then just figure out now this part evening this out the actual seat is very easy you put it down in its spot and if it's tilted the wrong way if it's twisted then one of these one of these will be away from the floor okay so you just want to make sure that it's kind of even on the floor that's that's basically it so i did that raise it back up and there's another motor so we just fixed this one this one here we just fixed and now we're fixing this one just above it same deal look this one is barely sticking out you can actually take these out come on and pull these out twist on it if you want to if it doesn't go back in just twist it and there you go so same exact thing i'm gonna heat this up take it out cut it same length same amount heat it up again put it back in shove it in there and uh yeah i still gotta put the necessary things i took apart from the back that should be it be back in a few hold on check it out gotta love free repairs and there's the heater again and guys this is an old tool 20 year old car look at the state inside and outside all right guys so if this video 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