Interior - Rear Seat Back Won't Fold Down
NUMBER: 23-025-07GROUP: Body
DATE: June 28, 2007
SUBJECT:
Rear Seat Back May Not Fold Due To Latch Release Cable Loose At Handle
OVERVIEW:
This bulletin involves securing the end of each latch release cable to their respective release handles.
MODELS:
2007 (JK) Wrangler
SYMPTOM/CONDITION:
The customer may not be able to unlatch the seat back on the rear seat. This condition may be due to the rear seat back latch release cable. The lug on the end of the release cable may come free of the release handle.
DIAGNOSIS:
On the suspect seat back, raise the seat back release handle and determine if the release cable end lug is properly engaged to the release handle. If the release cable end is not engaged correctly to the release handle then perform the Repair Procedure.
PARTS REQUIRED:
REPAIR PROCEDURE:
1. Perform this repair to both rear seat back release handles, for the 60% and the 40% seat backs.
2. If rear seat has a 60/40 split seat back (two handles), then cut three (3)13 mm x 40 mm (0.5 in. x 1.5 in.) tape strips from the larger piece of nylon flock tape. If rear back has a single seat back (one handle), then cut two (2) 13 mm x 40 mm (0.5 in. x 1.5 in.) tape strips from the larger piece of nylon flock tape.
3. For each rear seat back release handle (two handles on the 60/40 rear seat), install tape over each release cable end lug (Fig. 1)
4. Verify that the tape is fully seated on both release handles.
POLICY:
Reimbursable within the provisions of the warranty.
TIME ALLOWANCE:
FAILURE CODE:
Disclaimer:
This bulletin is supplied as technical information only and is not an authorization for repair.