Any heavier drivers out there?

[brandonsmash]

I weigh just over 200lbs and I have this problem. It happens when I press the clutch in and thought there is a fair amount of pressure on the seatback when you do this. I'll bet it is more prevalent with a manual vs auto trans for that reason. I'll check the leather but mine sounds like it is in the seatback -- I remember another thread where someone found it was the lumbar mechanism in the seatback.

I know mine's not the leather because I have cloth seats (I live in Phoenix, and optioning leather here is a recipe for pain). It sure sounds like the seatback to me; it seems to creak right where the chair meets the back.

I've not seen another thread on this but I'd love more info!

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[altjx]

This is one heavy ass thread... Lol.

I'll make sure to hit you guys up if someone needs their ass whipped in your area.


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[DeepImpactS550]

I know mine's not the leather because I have cloth seats (I live in Phoenix, and optioning leather here is a recipe for pain). It sure sounds like the seatback to me; it seems to creak right where the chair meets the back.

I've not seen another thread on this but I'd love more info!

My 2016 (also a manual) has ~400 miles on it and just started doing this a few nights ago. I'm 300+, so definitely a big guy. I have a v6 with 051a equipment group (includes ebony cloth power/lumbar driver seat) if that helps.

After messing around with it, I can duplicate the squeak just by leaning back in the seat. So, it definitely does appear to be coming from the seatback, rather than the seat base. It did not do this when purchased (had 128 miles). I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a quiet driver seat, regardless of my size. The 140,000 mile, well worn driver seat in my previous 99 GT, and 3 other 4th gen Camaro's over the years (leather or cloth), never made a peep.

 

[Tamadrummer88]

Jeez what did your parents feed some of you as a child?

 

[DeepImpactS550]

Jeez what did your parents feed some of you as a child?

Mexican food..... Lots of mexican food.

Oh, and Pizza, can't forget about Pizza!

 

[brandonsmash]

A quick follow-up:

Recently I had to pull my seats to re-skin them as I was changing from a ceramic interior to black. In the process I figured I'd fix the creaking.

My driver's seat had two things I noticed: One, one of the hooks of the wire spring frame (the component at the bottom of the seat that holds the weight) wasn't in its tab, so due to poor assembly the seat frame wasn't distributing weight correctly.

Two, the plastic levers for seat adjustment were rubbing on the plastic frame of the seat bottom.

I hooked the frame together like it should have been done and sprayed dry PTFE lube on all plastic and moving surfaces.

Including seat removal, discovery, repair, and installation this took about 30 minutes (obviously mine took additional time not listed because I reskinned the seat), but it has finally stopped that goddamn creak.

Two Ford dealers (Chapman and Earnhardt in Phoenix) refused to attempt to fix the noise, immediately blaming it on my size. They didn't even look at the seat or even try.

Fuck you, Ford. It took me 30 minutes on my own -- that's it, only 30 damn minutes! -- to fix the problem because your dealers were incredibly quick to blame an external factor for their own laziness. Neither of the dealers even took the time to take the seat out (10 minutes tops, if they were bullshitting with their buddy in the next bay right before going to lunch) to look at whether or not it was assembled correctly (it wasn't). The second dealer even had the car for 3 weeks.

The build quality of the Mustang is below what I'd expect at the price point and the service network is lacking. I've not experienced any big failures with the car, but the little things (Sync not working right, buzzes and rattles everywhere, thin paint, alignment issues) are really adding up to make me feel dissatisfied with this purchase. The car's gorgeous and fun to drive but I feel like either my car was a Friday car or Ford just kind of phoned it in with regards to quality control. My next new car will not be a Ford.

 

[martin]

167 lbs but I am only 5 foot seven. My stomach juts out. No squeaks

 

[x_man586]

I'm 330 and 6' no squeaks 24,000 miles

 

[Semi]

You should swap your seats for the Recaros! :shrug:

lol, i'm just kidding though... you won't even fit in those big guy! :lol:

I'm 250, recaro's great for me.

 

[Stormtrooper5.0]

My 185lbs and my seats just started squeaking last week. It actually sounds like something is breaking but I haven't even looked at it yet.

 

[EcoSwag1990]

Pics or it didn't happen on anyone claiming over 300lbs driving this car

 

[x_man586]

Pics or it didn't happen on anyone claiming over 300lbs driving this car

Just cause I don't fit in Porsche's, vettes, Focus RS, Miata's, don't mean I'm too big for a Mustang

 

[GuardGT]

6' 240lbs and im hoping that this post saves some of my big drivers with higher powered cars from my recent (almost) tragedy.
so, i haven't seen the seat tracks in the 15-16, but this happened on my 04 cobra. now, the same early symptoms are happening in my 16, so im becoming concerned.

my cobra has spent its entire 45k mile life with 500-800+rwhp and is driven hard regularly. after a few months, the seat started rocking forward and back when i got in/out, but just a little. it got slightly worse as time went by, but so slowly that most might not notice. i could grab the wheel and rock forward and back, maybe a cm or two.
fast-forward 30k miles and im taking my buddy for a ride(read:driving the piss out of the car), and we stop at the corner store. when i get back in the car, the seat flies straight back. my head is in the back seat, knees half way up the steering wheel. THANK GOD it didnt happen while i was driving, there is NO WAY i could have controlled the car if that happened on the road. the seat base was 6" off the floor pan, and the seat back was laid flat back into the rear seats.

i limp her around the block home, rip the seat out and this plastic adjuster piece is completely broken off. literally some of the shittiest engineering ive ever seen, especially for such a critical part of the seat. the front/back tilt piece is two valve-stem-cap sized pieces of metal pressed into a plastic tee, that has a spiral adjusting rod going through it. 1/8" plastic breaks, seat bottom flies up/back.
the second part that broke was one of the side bolts that physically holds the seat back to the seat bottom, where the seatback tilt handle is located. bolt was completely sheared off. i couldnt believe it.

sorry for the novel, but i hope this saves somebody from the shitshow i recently had to go through

 

[xjester]

You should swap your seats for the Recaros! :shrug:

lol, i'm just kidding though... you won't even fit in those big guy! :lol:

Oh, he could fit. I'm 285 and I fit in mine just fine. They stretch out a bit.

Now getting out of them....like pushing a marshmallow through a keyhole. Or the seats birth you out, like Ace Ventura and the Rhino.

 

[brandonsmash]

I tried the Recaros. The wings hit me between the shoulder blades. If I sucked in my arms real tight I could almost fit, albeit with quite a lot of discomfort.

I'm actually rather happy with the stock seat form. I still feel like my exits aren't terribly graceful, that when I get out of the car I occupy more volume than you would expect the car to accommodate.

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