The track for the seat had a plastic rivet that broke. A small U track that had holes in it
that broke at along the holes. The seat should hold a 300 pound person in a crash but failed for me and I am only 180 pounds and it broke and fell out of the truck under normal use. I replaced the plastic rivet with a steel bolt and had the track welded. A year later all the welds broke. The only thing that kept the seat from falling out again was the bolts that I put in to replace the plastic rivet. With the track broke in half the seat floats around in the cab and will not slide back and forth as it should.
A piece of plastic is not going to hold a person back in crash. I don't think this ever passed a crash test. Someone must have covered up this failure in the crash test or the crash tests were never done. If a seat falls out under normal use there is NO way the seat would stay in the truck in a crash. This means that Ford knows about this problem and did not recall and fix this. I now have a used track and am getting it redesigned and welded by a welder who knows how to weld before I put it back in the truck.
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The track for the seat had a plastic rivet that broke. A small U track that had holes in it
that broke at along the holes. The seat should hold a 300 pound person in a crash but failed for me and I am only 180 pounds and it broke and fell out of the truck under normal use. I replaced the plastic rivet with a steel bolt and had the track welded. A year later all the welds broke. The only thing that kept the seat from falling out again was the bolts that I put in to replace the plastic rivet. With the track broke in half the seat floats around in the cab and will not slide back and forth as it should.
A piece of plastic is not going to hold a person back in crash. I don't think this ever passed a crash test. Someone must have covered up this failure in the crash test or the crash tests were never done. If a seat falls out under normal use there is NO way the seat would stay in the truck in a crash. This means that Ford knows about this problem and did not recall and fix this. I now have a used track and am getting it redesigned and welded by a welder who knows how to weld before I put it back in the truck.
- owenprince, Cardston, Alberta, Canada