Spotted loose bolt on drivers seat.

[adrian36]

Factory defect. Some one on the assembly line that built my car forgot to tightened the bolt on the drivers seat. This is the bolt on the rear that when you sit on it will be on the left side. The side nearest the door. To top it of the bolt and not are both stripped. My experience has been that this bolt is actually a stud welded from the outside. How can the dealer repair this?? Will keep you posted.

[EbonyMarauder03]

I had my MM in for a noise in the driver's seat. They ordered a seat frame thinking that was the problem. When they took the seat apart they found that there was a missing clip that holds the lumbar to the seat frame. They also found that the harness for the side air bag was not routed right and in time would have chafed through and caused a short. Quality is not job number 1.

[RedMM]

My parents bought a new GM LS premium ultimate edition recently(same assembly plant) that has two very odd defects on the pass side. Front door latch, which is supposed to be held by 3 large bolt/screw type fasteners were never installed. Not sure how that door stayed shut! Rear pass door has a spill on the dog leg which I SWEAR looks like coffee or soda that runs all the way from about window height out the bottom of the door opening to just above the black rocker panel molding. It looks like the clear coat was installed right over the run, so you can see it and feel it, but the shine is over the spill! The car has a beautiful dark charcoal leather interior and since this would require sanding and refinishing the entire dog leg between the doors, we can't decide if it's worth the risk to get dust and over spray on the interior or just leave well enough alone! Appearantly, the pass side quality control dude was on break when this car went by!!!!!

[adrian36]

I just hope that they took better care of the enging and tranny. This is frustrating. My wife owns a 00 Nissan Max. Never a problem. Not even workmanship issues. Then again it does not have a 302 hp 32 valve V8. Yeah Babay.

[adrian36]

I had an idea on fixing this bolt issue. I took the car to a buddy who runs a machine shop and he said that the bolt was fine it was the nut. The nut was the wrong size. Hey, dude putting these cars together......-PICK THE RIGHT BOLT FROM THE RIGHT BIN!!!!!!!!!!!!

My friend rethreaded the nut to 5/16 and it works.

[PAPAJOHN]

Could have told you it wasn't the bolt --- it was the nut who put it together!

[jgc61sr2002]

RedMM - I would leave the paint the way it is. IMO you won't be happy with a repaint.

[RedMM]

jgc61sr2002-thanks for responding! I was in your town last month-went to ground zero. Seeing it on tv doesn't begin to put the site in perspective. I was very gratified to see how somber and respectful the people visiting the site were. Saw a policeman with his CrownVic LX Sport??? Gorgeous car! Couldn't figure out what job he would hold to drive this for his "work car!" There were also some very good natured fireman there with a large fire truck that were posing in front of their truck with visitors who wanted photos of the site with them. It was heartwarming to see how kind and respectful both visitors and safety personell were! RedMM

[EbonyMarauder03]

I don't know if anyone was paying attention but the later episodes of X Files had the agent driving a Crown Vic Sport.

[junehhan]

That was totally awesome, and I almost cried when the car got blown up in the later episode...........