C70 power seat stopped working

[Jeff Lesperance]

My 98 C70 seat stopped working recently. No power function works, but the
drivers side is OK.

Has this happened to anyone else? The fuses and connectors are good, as I
checked.

Thanks

Jeff

 

[A Thomas]

My passenger seat just stopped working the other day. I checked the
same things you did. I have an appointment tomorrow with the Volvo
dealer for a repair. I had someone getting in the back and they pushed
the seat up the whole way and it never came back. Too bad they don't
have a manual override for at least moving the seat back and forth.
Good thing it was not the driver's seat.

Andy
99 C70 HT

 

[K]

How do you loosen these switches?

There's a couple of microswitches in the C70 seat that aren't in the
other models, to prevent the switches from being able to move the seat
while the backrest is folded. If you just disconnect these switches,
the seat works fine, you just loose the lockout. Sounds like both you
guys have this problem.

--
Mike F.
Thornhill (near Toronto), Ont.

Change cant to ca and remove parentheses to email me directly.

 

[Mike F]

How do you loosen these switches?

I never had to uninstall them. The car I worked on, we just defeated
the switches by disconnecting them. As I remember there was on at the
base of the seatback, the other near the lever you use to fold the
seatback forward. When we figured out the problem the customer went the
cheap route, leaving the switches out of the circuit.