Hi guys,

The passenger seat in my bravo t-jet 120 2010 rattles when I drive or when I shake the seat from side to side.
Anyone had this? I thought maybe I need to tighten some bolts on the rails of the seat, or something. Any experience with it? Some special tools?
Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers.

mine also rattles... can't do anything about it as it's somewhere in the hinge.

lionsh said:

Hi guys,

The passenger seat in my bravo t-jet 120 2010 rattles when I drive or when I shake the seat from side to side.
Anyone had this? I thought maybe I need to tighten some bolts on the rails of the seat, or something. Any experience with it? Some special tools?
Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers.

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If you put a girl on that sit, it will rattle even more.Unless you tighten some bolts

My sit does the same, the bolts on the rails are ok, so I think there is something else moving inside. At least with my seat, I think it is the top part where you fix the head rest.But it does that if no one is sitting there or if the road is really bad.

For example if i take one finger and push the passenger sear headrest the noise stops.. so i think it's in the seat hinge, it gets in a resonating frequency

Sometimes I can see the seat vibrating while driving.
If it's not the bolts on the rails, perhaps it's something on the seat itself.
maybe the counter rails on the seat. I'm not so familiar with the construction of the seats, was hoping maybe someone here has more experience and can suggest what to look at.

Putting a girl on the seat will apply pressure on the seat and stop the rattling, but it's only a temporary fix as carlorff suggested

First try to tighten all the bolts attaching the seat rails to the car body. It may be just that.

If not, disconnect the seat airbag/sensors, unscrew the rail bolts, unscrew the safety belt screw, remove the seat. Then remove the rails from the seat.

Then what I did - (*and this may be uneccessary, see below) - on each of the two rails, I bent a piece of metal at one side (a bent metal preventing the two parts of the rail to separate while in car), and separated the rails (each in two pieces). A white plastic thingy with balls/bearings came out of the rail, and it took me a while to figure out how to put it back (hint: it moves inside the rail freely).
Now, with the rails separated, I put each into a vice and squeezed them to be tighter, but still possible to put back together.
Don't forget to re-bend the stopper piece of metal once you assemble the rails.
Images of the vice pressing attached, couldn't find more images sorry.

*I'm saying this may be unecessary, becuse maybe you can press the rail without separating it into two pieces. I haven't tried that, may work, doesn't have to. May also damage the bearings inside, not sure.

**Aside from this, while looking for the source of the rattle, I pretty much deconstructed the whole seat as far as I could go so that it was still reversible, tightened all the bolts properly when putting it back together, but I think what did it was either the rail pressing, -or- the rail-to-car-frame bolt tightening.

***Pro tip: don't drive fat passengers. (just joking)