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Anonymous Posted on Nov 26, 2012

How do you remove the front power seats in a Ford Flex?

I have a phone charger stuck in the track of the passengers' seat of my Ford Flex. It is causing the seat to malfunction. I can't get it out or break it. How do you remove the power front seats of a ford flex?

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4 bolts 2 in front 2 in back u may have to raze the seat up to get under it.Unplug the power seat then pull up and out.

  • Anonymous Nov 26, 2012

    I have been able to access the front bolts but I can't see a way to access the back bolts. Are there covers over them like the front ones? How do I remove those if there is?

  • Anonymous Nov 26, 2012

    OMG! I can be an idiot! You mentioned raising the seat...I hadn't done that, just moved it forward and back...when I raised the seat the phone charger came right out, no need to remove the seat. Started the car and the indicator that kept saying take stuff out of the passengers' seat went immediately off. It's much more likely to pass emissions testing now (which has to happen this week). Thank You!

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this is a common problem if you use the seat heater alot.one or both of the seat heater elements will have burned up or broken.where i live it is very cold most of the time and i have replaced hundreds of the seat heater elements.it is rare for it not to be one or both of the elements.

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It is the heatling element, stock elements have a single wire snaked through the element and when the circuit breaks it is done, aftermarket elements have a wired grid that if one area fails it still works, they also spread a more even heat.

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Try tapping the power seat frame with a hammer to unbind the motor .

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SOURCE: Heated Drivers Seat Ford 500 2006 will not work.

It is usually one of two problems. Either the relay under the seat has failed or the heat element in the seat has failed.

If you are not electrically challenged, you can use a simple volt-ohm meter and check for continuity in the heat element. If you have continuity, the element is good, otherwise that's your problem.

If the heat element is good, you may want to take the good relay from under the passenger seat and put it on the driver's side to see if that fixes it. If so, then you have to get a new relay.

Last, but very unlikely, would be a bad switch.

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