Owner reports filed with NHTSA about this vehicle, newest first and reproduced as filed. They are unverified accounts: one proves nothing, and a pattern across many is the thing worth reading. Back to the full 2017 record →
POWER DRIVER SEAT ROCKS FORWARD AND BACK DURING ACCELERATION, STOPPING, STATIONARY AND GOING OVER BUMPS. THIS HAPPENS ON CITY STREETS AND ON THE HIGHWAY. SEVERITY OF ROCKING MOTION VARIES DEPENDING ON SEAT HEIGHT ADJUSTMENT. HAD SEAT REPLACED AND REPLACEMENT HAS BEEN DOING THE SAME. HAS BEEN DOING IT SINCE NEW
NHTSA publishes every complaint as the owner wrote it and investigates only a fraction. Spelling, capitalisation and judgement are the filer’s own. What carries weight is repetition: the same component failing the same way across many filings, and whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.
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