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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Virginia
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97 328I seat problem
Am having terrible time finding part number for driver side power front seat backrest adjustment gearbox for daughters car. Seat makes clicking noise and I believe that may be the problem?
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02-10-2007, 07:33 AM
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Probably the recline gear is broken. Very common! You're in luck BMW doesn't sell the part but within the last year a part has been custom made to fix it.
http://www.odometergears.com/subpages/bmw.html
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02-12-2007, 06:31 AM
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02-12-2007, 10:23 AM
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Reading BMW tech forums is like my second job.
 My recline broke a couple of years ago. I pulled the seat, verified it was the gear and just set the seat back at a comfortable fixed position. That was a few months before the odo-gear-guy finished designing his part and I was planning to get race seats anyway. I still don't have the race seats but I'm close, so close.
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02-12-2007, 10:40 AM
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1997 BMW M3 3.2L I6
1997 BMW 328is M52 In-Line 6
