Dear sl 22,

May this find you well. I'll help with the seat issue. The problem is almost certainly the seat control switches, located on the door-side of the seat.

These switches usually stop working completely, when the relay on the printed circuit board burns out. As a result, power ceases to flow to the seat motors.

You can likely get replacement switch units at a salvage yard. You will need to remove the seats, to get at the switches.

As the airbag sensor is under the driver's seat, you MUST remove the negative battery cable clamp, and put it in a plastic bag, to isolate it. This will prevent an accidental airbag deployment, resulting from thumping or banging the sensor. An inadvertent air bag deployment (possible on a car in a salvage yard, if it still has a battery in it) is quite dangerous - even lethal - if your head is close to the bag, when it deploys.

On your own car, an airbag deployment will cost you about $1K. Simply removing the negative battery cable clamp from the battery will make things safe.

You can find a procedure for removing/replacing a seat in the FAQs, under FEATURES, above (it is under installing a powered seat in a car not factory-equipped with a power seat).

Hope this helps.

Yours faithfully,

spook