Ok, so I am extremely pissed at the moment. I opened the passenger door of my car, and reached for the seat tilt handle on the upper back of the passenger seat in order to tilt the seat forward and retrieve a large item from the back seat. When I applied pressure to the handle it broke clean off the seat like the cheap piece of plastic that it is. My question is, is this something I can get from the salvage yard, or do i need a whole new seat? if it was a regular handle I know that I could just replace the handle, but since the other end of this one is embedded inside the seat I'm not so sure. If this is something that isn't really feasible for me to fix, should I let the stealership take a stab at it? I assume since this is such a cheap piece of plastic that this happens frequently.........Car is just over 2 years old and is falling apart worse than my grandma's 94' geo. It just makes me mad.....Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

 

First....Take a breath.
This happens to everyone at somepoint. Yeah it does feel like cheap plastic. If you can find a junk yard with an S197 in it than just pull it off and it kinda "pops" back into place. Otherwise I think its like 20 something at the dealership. Just use a flat head screwdriver to try and get out the extra part of the handle and youll be set.

 

welcome to the club i think its like $30 bucks at the stealership both of mine have broke

 

i was talking to a ford repair guy at my dealership and he told me this is their 2nd most requested fix on the mustang... they must break a lot.

 

Mine broke i just glued it back on and i use the seat tilt handle along the side of the seat

 

I have broken one on each seat. The first one, still under warranty. The second one cost me $24.

 

what is #1

 

i say take this chance to buy some new seats!!

 

haha, I wish.

Ok, so I guess it's good that it's something I can handle on my own. It just makes me mad that such an expensive car is built so cheaply. I'm glad it's fixable though, thanks guys.

 

expensive car?