Milano speat back adjusters

[Pottree@domain.elided]

In a message dated 12/01/2001 8:43:29 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:


> I am getting ready to install some better front seats in my Milano.  While 
> the
> seats are out, I am going to pull the center console and try to run down an
> electrical problem with the seat back adjusters 

On our former Milano the driver's seat padding was getting rather tired 
(although the upholstery was like new) so I had it replaced.  When I picked 
up the car the seatback adjusters were not working.  The upholsterer rolled 
the car next door to a pal in the auto electric business who discovered that 
something (spade connectors?) were not tight.  This is not the end, but only 
the beginning, though. 

Once the electrical connection was solid, the seatbacks worked in the 
opposite direction from what was indicated by the switches: calling for up 
got you down.  The rather elderly electrical specialist told me this was a 
common problem with small electrical motors on cars, didn't I recall the 
whatsis on the 53 Mercury, and because of being disconnected and reattached, 
or jostled, or perhaps some other reason entirely, the polarity of the 
seatback motors had reversed.  The method he knew for fixing it was rather 
simple, if brutal: one sharp whack on the motor with the handle of a very 
large and heavy screwdriver.

And it worked!

Charlie
LA, Ca, USA

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