Jacqueline R
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I was planning on asking for help with this particular issue, but after reading so many posts and trying a few of the things suggested one of them worked well enough to allow the seat to move to the rearward position and be a usable and functional seat once again! I was trying to put my dash cam in a couple days ago, and while routing the wires carefully around the body moldings I needed to get in the back seat so I moved the passenger seat forward and tilted the seat forward while letting it stay there for a half hour or so while I worked. We all know this is a bad idea now right? After getting out of the car and trying to put the seat back it wouldn't budge... no matter what I did it wasn't going to move, the seat tilting functions up and down worked fine but seat movement fore and aft on the track was absolutely dead. At first I tried applying pressure to the seat in the correct direction to assist the motor, that did not work. Then I tried fidgeting around with the buttons and resetting the easy exit function, no dice. I disconnected the battery waited 45 seconds and reconnected the battery, only to have a host of other issues that I am slowly working my way through. Then tonight after fiddling around with things, unbolting the back screws of the seat to no avail, I thought maybe I could move the racks on the rack and pinion and unload the pressure from the motors? That didn't work because those racks are riveted to the seat frame. I realized I couldn't take the seats out because the tracks had overrun the forward position and we're now shrouding the bolts, my mind was racing towards cutting slots at the end of the bolt under the car, turning them in with a pipe wrench and then using a screwdriver to follow them through in order to remove the seats, a nightmare of biblical proportion for me... I then read a few more posts and somebody mentioned tapping on the motor with a wrench or Hammer while using the switch, I would have thought of this for my older 1951 Ford if there was such a problem, seems logical, but on a maserati? Lo and behold after tapping on the motor with a small catspaw crowbar and using the switch it started moving and sent the seat to the rearward position, it did this kind of slowly and then did make a very strange smell, not a burnt electronics or burnt motor smell, but almost like a leftover food smell, like something you might have taken home from a seafood restaurant and left in the back seat for a night... I'll definitely be ordering a motor off of eBay, probably cutting and heat shrink plus soldering the correct Maserati connector on and all of that, as the motor did move slowly and made that funny smell, but for now I'm happy and the seat is in a position where I can have a passenger once again! I will absolutely be turning off the easy Auto exit feature and very sparingly, if ever again, using the seat adjustments unless absolutely necessary! Who knew that slapping the motor with a small hammer or a small crowbar was going to be the trick that made this work? It is not the first thing I would have thought of when approaching this electrical issue on a maserati! Hope that helps somebody, it was the simplest thing I've ever done to unstick a problem, but for now I'm just grateful it worked! Hope it helps you too!
