Wild acting powered seat problem identified!

Bayou Titan · 02-05-2004, 01:53 PM

Hello fellow Titan owners,

I finally figured out what causes the electric captains seats to freak out and start folding up on you.

Here's what causes it and how it happens:

The Titan is very tall with lots of ground clearance which causes the seat of the Titan to be very high from street level. This causes you to enter the driver's seat a little bit different than normal. I am 6"-2" and I still enter in this different way.

In a normal pickup, with a lower seat height than a Titan, you can just "jump in" with your butt and both feet landing at the same time. Due to the height of the Titan, I , and I assume others, enter this way. You touch the steering wheel from outside,then raise and put your right foot on the middle of the floorboard and then jump half-way in with half your butt hanging half way off of the left side of the powered captains seat. After you are in this position, you lift your left leg into the truck. THIS is when the problem occurs! While your weight is on your left butt cheek, because most of your weight is on your left side, the foam in the captains seat will compress all the way down to the seat switches and both your thigh and butt can activate them. See there, the problem is not in your head after all, it's in your butt!

I have replicated this time after time in my testing and this is exactly what happens. Try it out for yourself. Your weight has to be on the extreme left edge of the seat above the seat control buttons. I weigh 250 lbs. which might explain why this problem may not happen to everyone. When this happens to you for the first time, you will panic and not know what to do and not realize what is causing it. The good thing in discovering this is that it will likely not happen while in motion. I say this because for most of your weight to be that far to the left edge of the seat, the front door would have to be open. Remember, when you try this out yourself leave the door open so you can put all your weight on the left side. I remember now, that when this happened to me the first time, It happened when the door was open. I hope I am halfway clear in my description; all this is difficult to put into words.

Robert

Bayou Titan · 02-05-2004, 03:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by robertc

Robert

I figured the same thing out myself in another post. Some wise guys here told me to go on a diet. I weigh 218 lbs. which is enough to compress the seat on the left edge. Maybe the 150lb. guys need to bulk up to test this annoying defect out for themselves. Lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Absolutely! A macho man is what is needed for a macho truck.

toadbee · 02-06-2004, 01:07 PM

Nice, I thought I had lost my mind ("Darn seat is weird again....did i think this was comfortable yesterday? What was I thinking...")

tbeecher · 02-06-2004, 01:41 PM

Hmm. Don't know a nice way to ask this.. Does your butt hang over the side when you drive??

toadbee · 02-06-2004, 01:46 PM

@snowman -
What exactly are you experiencing there? Big Movements in your seat (sorry for the funny there) - Or are you talking just little shifts?

tbeecher · 02-06-2004, 01:47 PM

Sorry RC.. I was aiming that one at the Snowman...

TB

tbeecher · 02-06-2004, 01:49 PM

TitanLover.. I crack up every time I see that avatar..

Wha chu takkin' about Willis?

dd564 · 02-06-2004, 05:36 PM

Big Belly Tow... I like that.

I being less than 200 lbs was unable to duplicate the problem, but I think there might be some truth to it.

Anyone still have the seat slowly tilting forward when they drive? It could be my jacket bumping against the switch.

Sabre66 · 02-06-2004, 07:46 PM

I'm all of 5'8" tall and literally have to climb into my Titan's driver seat since i don't have step rails yet. I haven't experienced any movement in the seat angle at any time getting in, out, or while driving. I'd agree it's an electrical short somewhere in the seat.

Anyone else experience this? My driver's seat feels a little loose on it's tracks. When i accelerate from a dead stop the seat kinda slides about a 1/16". Not like it's gonna come off the track or anything just like there's too much play between the seat brackets and the rails. It doesn't jiggle or anything like it's unsecured, just moves slightly when accelerating.

checo · 08-08-2004, 10:51 AM

I am 300 pounds 6'1", I have touch the controls few times with my left leg, but the seats are perfect size for a man my size.

jaysonstuart · 08-08-2004, 11:06 AM

I have replicated this quite a few times by just jumping in the truck really quick to grab something and only sitting halfway in it. The seat will just start to recline on its own, and I noticed it was the foam on the seat hitting the switch. Pissed me off at first but now that I know it happens when I sit like that I just avoid sitting on half the outter seat.

mjw357 · 08-08-2004, 11:35 AM

Yes I thought I was going crazy for the first couple of weeks I had it, 'dammit I just moved this thing back this morning, I know I did!' then one quiet morning I was just getting something out of the truck, hanging halfway out like mentioned above. I heard the little motor running and felt the seat back leaning forward. Mystery solved!
I think an electric seat disable switch in one of the blanks on the dash would be cool. Or just a little better designed power seat control so that the buttons don't get bumped.

stoop411 · 06-24-2005, 05:24 AM

Im so glad Bayou Titan directed me to this thread, it was driving me crazy!!!

KTMNealio · 06-24-2005, 08:58 AM

Where is the guy that swears the computer was re-adjusting his seat at night???

- Nealio

Blizzard · 06-24-2005, 12:18 PM

Finally, somebody that agrees with me. I posted about this back in October. I'm 6'-1" and when I get in the truck, my left leg brushes the control and the seat back moves forward. By Friday afternoon, I am driving at a 45 degree angle. If it is quiet out, some times I can hear the motor run for a fraction of a second as my leg touchs the control.