DiscoverEd!
Member Since: 28 Feb 2011
Location: Floating around
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Just as an update: this didn't work. The only benefit of doing it is that raising the seat now can be done with me sitting on it rather that standing up to reduce resistance.
Otherwise, I still have to bring the seat up once in a while.
Boo-feckin-hoo. Probably a mislabeled D3 S with no nuthings. Who knows.
Sidesteps and a grinding noise that gladly was not more than a hub bearing
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 Wed Sep 28 2011 6:13pm |
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Dexter
Member Since: 21 Sep 2007
Location: Aberdeenshire
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Yup, I resorted to the small block of wood wedged under the seat height lever. Painted black and now a permanent fixture it goes pretty much unnoticed.
Sorted the problem and the seat never moves 
Dex D4 XS Ipanema / Ebony / Privacy / Xenons
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| Wed Sep 28 2011 10:26pm |
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Seamanm
Member Since: 28 Dec 2011
Location: Yorkshire
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This was a really interesting topic to find....and 5 pages of it too!
After having a D3 for almost five years and for the first 4 years finding that i regularly had to pump the seat back up 2 or 3 times i got used to sitting 'on the stops'....which wasn't that bad as the seat squab had a bit more of a comfortable incline. I was a bit cheesed off and thought that there must be a design fault on some friction thingy that was supposed to hold the seat elevated, though i didn't bother investigating.
Anyway, it wasn't until on day when i noticed that every time i got out of the car my thigh pressed ever so slightly on the lever which lowered the seat slightly....sooooo, i took a bit more care getting in and out and hey presto, it worked!!
Still....i'm sure there's a better solution out there (and should be in LRs R&D dept) that doesn't involve electric seats!!  2003 Freelander 1
2005 Disco 3
2010 Disco 4
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