Do I Have Seat Creep?...
 

Don't laugh - no please, don't laugh.

Ever since I've had the car (a few months now) I've regularly had to press the button to move the seat backwards. I'm talking about twice a week. Now I know I'm slow, but this is starting to register in my excuse for a brain. Never experienced this before.

I've thought about - and discounted - various possibe causes, as follows:

1. No, my legs aren't getting longer - probably quite the opposite.

2. No I'm not getting fatter - not at that rate, anyway.

3. No, the car's not shrinking in the rain, not noticeably anyway.

4. No, the pedals aren't getting longer - I've checked.

So, what's going on? Has anyone ever heard of Seat Creep? Am I breaking new ground here? Is Seat Creep even possible? Do I need to start taking measurements to check if the seat IS creeping fowards at night, when everyone's in bed?

Never heard of it... but adjust your seat and find a way to mark the position (as precisely as you can!) with some masking tape or something and see if it actually moves or if the voices are just telling you it moved.

That's the idea I was looking for! Thanks mate!

Time will tell...

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g7...arch%209pm.jpg

The difference lies when you sit with or W/O a coat on.

That seatbelt bracket doesn't move with the seat?

Oh bollocks, yes it does! :wtf2:

I owe you a drink next time I'm in America - I've moved the tape to the centre bulkhead.

This.

Even thicker vs thinner jackets, sweaters that sort of thing makes a difference.

Hope I can take you up on that!

I know. I've had Z's with electric seats for 12 years and had to make tiny adjustments for clothing all the time - backwards AND forwards. This is different. It only ever goes backwards. By now, in theory, I should be driving from the trunk of the car.

You take up wearing platform shoes? :icon17:

Any significant dung buildup on the bottoms of your shoes? :icon14:

I'm assuming you have power seats? Are you perhaps bumping the controls slightly with your leg when getting out?

The clothing was the only tangible thing I could think of, otherwise I'm just throwing stuff out there to maybe spawn further ideas on it.

I have the recaro's, and about once a week I have to reset the seatback. Between moving the seat getting in and out, and leaning on it to lever myself out ( I'm old and about 40 pounds overweight, lol), it wiggles out of position.

Kirk B.

You should trade me for my base seats to alleviate yourself of that clearly inconvenient predicament.

Yes, I have power seats. I stopped wearing platform shoes in 1975. I'm a very fussy bastard, so I NEVER step in dogshit.

I am in England. Our steering wheel is on the right, so I get in the right hand door. The power buttons are on the left of the seat, so I never make unintentional contact with them.

But thanks for the ideas.

Yeah....No.
Now heated touring....?
(Insert deep in thought emoji)
Nope, still a no.

Kirk B.

There's your problem, steering wheel is on the wrong side:icon17:

ermmmmm - Japanese car. What side of the road do the Japanese drive on? :tiphat:

Get out of here with that logic of yours!

Oh, you English are *so* superior, aren't you? Well, would you like to know what you'd be without us, the good ol' U.S. of A. to protect you? I'll tell you. The smallest ***king province in the Russian Empire, that's what!

~ Otto, 'A Fish Called Wanda'

:tiphat:

You know I'm just yanking your chain...or Yankeeing your chain:icon17:

I have to always scoot up a bit when i wear pants or a sweater for a comfortable position..


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Since my accident and neck surgery I have noticed some days I feel to close to the wheel and some days I feel to far back. Your neck can no doubt mess up your feeling of center. Do you have any neck issues?

I hate it when my panty hose ride up.

Oh... wait... wrong website. Never mind.

Always sucks doesn't it... :driving: :owned:

OP, do you have kids or did you give a spare fob to a family member?

It was me. I've been flying over everyday at great expense and slightly moving your seat while you were off playing cricket.

Just the kind of extra service you can expect from our members.

Yep I get that. Muscles in back and side of my neck are always tight and when really tight it actually pushes my head to sit a bit further forward. I used to adjust seat around it but was a pain so I just leave it in the same spot now - and go figure, it stays there!

If the Z uses the same screw actuator that I've seen on other cars, I doubt that you moving around in the seat is causing the problem. But I guess it's not impossible. A few wild guesses: you are accidentally bumping the button every now and then; someone is messing with you and adjusting the seat, changes in the way you are sitting (but you should get some forward movement with that). Good luck figuring it out.

I suppose you could always find that perfect spot again and unplug the connector/harness to the power seat motor.

And fill out your wardrobe with the exact same outfit for every day :happydance:

It's the UK, a polo and raincoat works 364 days a year :tiphat:

I love this forum. I go to bed, I have a nice little sleep, I wake up, I make myself a nice cuppa, I turn on the computer and...

...2,349 new suggestions. Sadly...

...My kids have left home, so they're not to blame, my spare fob is in 'the secret place' and has never been used by anyone, least of all the wife, who hates fast cars and only ever goes near mine when she has to (conspiracy theories here, please).
I can't unplug the seat. If I did that, I wouldn't be able to make those tiny adjustments we know are so necessary.

You people have made me laugh out loud with some of your thoughts - thank you for them. Sadly I'm no nearer a solution. Part of me hopes that Seat Creep has not been heard of before. I'd love to be the proud creator of a new issue, 10 years into the car's history. Hopefully it could be named after me, like a new species of butterfly, or a disease.

Maybe get one of those Dashcams that record on movement and have it facing inside the vehicle. might be able to catch the ghost or a wifey that is rippin' **** up on the roads while you sleep :icon17:

i think it's gremlins, probably at night when you're asleep. too bad Nissan didn't think of having memory settings. on my bmw which was 10 years older than my z, it had 3 different settings for 3 different drivers. when you found your sweet spot you'd press one of the buttons and hold it in and the memory was set so if someone adjusted it on you, all you had to do was press your button and the seat would automatically adjust to your personal setting. and that just wasn't forward and back, it was also for height and lumbar. maybe in 10 more years when the next generation z comes out.... come on Nissan get with it!

this might be the culprit.

Oh my goodness! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

I think I may have the evidence of The Seat Creep I've been testing for (feels like I've spotted the Loch Ness Monster)...

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g7..._083049260.jpg

As you can see, the right hand side of the tape has moved considerably (the two RH sides were level, until this morning).

What's interesting is that I'd noticed no movement at all ever since I put the tape on, over a week ago. But yesterday, when I was leaning across the car, doing the vinyl roof wrap in my garage, I kept accidentally locking/unlocking the car because the key was in my pocket.

I DID NOT get into the car. I DID NOT accidentally touch the seat button (I'm in the UK, my car is RHD, so the seat button is next to the gear shift, not on the outside). I finished the roof wrap late at night, so I left the car in the garage overnight, unlocked, with the windows down.

Got in the car this morning, to reverse out of the garage, and noticed it felt different. Looked down at my tape - and you can see what I saw.

Ooooer!

Now, I'm as sceptical as the next man - and I can hardly believe my eyes, but the evidence is there, I think?

Any ideas how it's happened? Should I try replicating the movement by locking/unlocking the car several times again?

I'd reset the tape and try again. Not sure how locking and unlocking could possibly move the seat without some weird electrical gremlin. But if testing it out helps your sanity, I say go for it.

:iagree:

One other thought ...

PROOF OF BIGFOOT.

I agree with others, see if it keeps drifting... and/or reset and see if it keeps repeating. MOAR DATA!

That being said... at least the evidence suggests that you aren't a complete crazy.