So I wake up this morning feeling pretty good. Get a shower and head out 4 minutes ahead of schedule! Pretty good! Anyway I'm just getting out of town when I notice my seat is not in the fully upright position. Well in the evenings I recline it a bit if I'm sitting in traffic and otherwise I like it straight up and down. Anyway so I reach down pull the lever and nothing... it does not come up?!?! hmmm.... ok it's been a little off lately so I recline it a "notch" so the mechanism will relase and then it can go up, it stays one notch lower. Well it's only two notches down from straight up which not so bad until I decide to give it some and it slams all the way back against the back seat, while I'm doing 70 down 225! Hello! After regaining control of the vehicle and my pants I realize the seat now stuck in the fully fully reclined position...WTF! I pull over and jack with it for 3-4 minutes and say screw it, sit on a folded up tarp I have in the back and drive on in to work.
Once in the parking lot I proceed to start dismantling the seat, but it's dark and hard to see and I can't really get anywhere so forget it I go on in and look it up on the internet... a couple of phone calls later I'm off to the dealer to throw gobs of cash at them and see if they can fix it... how much do you think a truck seat costs? I'll answer that in a minute!
Around lunch I get the call "Mr. Morton, this is Allen Samuels Dodge, I got the estimate on your truck... they are going to have to replace the upper part of the seat and the hinge mechanism"... "ok how much is that?"... "the total is gonna run you $422.14." ... "what! for half a seat! forget it!" an hour later I pick up the truck and to thier credit they did not charge me any labor for looking at it. While I'm there I decied to see how much a whole new seat would cost... $1600! Cloth, no electrics, no heat nothing! Basic driver seat! $1600!!!! Insanity...
Ok I stick a big box in the back seat and lean the seat back against it and drive on back to work. Well you know I can't let a sleeping dog lie so I peel the upholstry off the seat. It come off easily with no damage at all, and I'm able to now see the problem, I have a quarter stuck in the hinge mechanism! Oh yes and it's in a tight spot no way am I able to reach it... wow I guess I'm going to have to take the seat out and flip over and shake it out...
Inside the office I tell everyone about the situ and W pulls out the longest needle nose pliers I've ever seen in my life! Hey that might work... p,r,w and me, a lot of jiggling and bloody knuckle later it came out... and it is mangled! That was it, all is well now, except I have to make up a little time at work and now I have a new story to tell!
