BMW 3 series E46

1 Remove a headrest, address to corresponding section.
2 Displace a forward seat completely forward and upwards.

3 Turn away a bolt of fastening-2 and remove a seat belt-1.

4 Turn away two back bolts of fastening-3.

5 Displace a seat completely back.

6 Seat of the forward passenger: Remove the first-aid set of first aid-4. For this purpose raise a screw-driver скобы-5 at the left and on the right. Press the first-aid set in front downwards and take out.

7 Disconnect a negative cable (-) the storage battery at the switched off ignition. The battery is in a luggage compartment behind a cover on the right side. At cars BMW 316i, 318i the battery settles down in an impellent compartment.

As a result of switching-off of the storage battery the data from memory of malfunctions of some monitors is erased. If necessary before battery switching-off it is necessary to consider the given memories of malfunctions. Address to Section Diagnostics of malfunctions. Work it is desirable to spend HUNDRED in conditions.

8 Observe security measures at the reference with натяжителем a belt and a safety pillow, address to Section the Steering with the hydraulic booster (servo control).

9 Rasstykujte штекерное-6 connection in front under a seat, preliminary having taken out sideways the holder-7.

10 Turn away a nut-8 and remove with spring washers. Preliminary remove covers if they are available.

11 Remove a channel with protective covers and cautiously take out a forward seat.

12 Cautiously establish a seat and expose it so that apertures have coincided.

The rug should not be in area of fastening by bolts between tyres of a seat and the bottom, otherwise at movement there can be a noise.

13 Fix a seat in front new nuts and tighten their moment 55 Nm.
14 Join a socket under a seat, insert the holder and thus fix the tip.
15 Seat of the forward passenger: Insert the first aid first-aid set back pins in directing on a seat, press in front upwards and fix in bracketх.
16 Attach a negative cable (-) the storage battery at the switched off ignition. Establish hours.
17 Displace a seat completely forward.
18 Fix two new bolts of fastening behind the moment 55 Nm.
19 Fix a seat belt outside the moment 48 Nm.
20 Establish a headrest, address to corresponding section.
21 Establish hours.

Specially at damage of electric adjustment of longitudinal position of a seat:

22 Incline a seat the mechanism of adjustment of an inclination upwards.
23 Turn out two bolts of fastening of a drive of adjustment of longitudinal position of a seat and remove a drive.
24 Include the switch of the mechanism of longitudinal adjustment.

- The mechanism does not work: Put a new drive and include it. If now the mechanism works, the reducer is serviceable, replace only the electric motor.
- The electric motor works, the seat does not move: the reducer of moving of a seat Is faulty, replace it.

25 Rasstykujte a socket of the mechanism of longitudinal adjustment of a seat.
26 Turn away two bolts of fastening of the tyre of a seat in front and overturn a seat back.
27 Cut off the big tool for cutting of bolts a connecting shaft.
28 Turn out two bolts of fastening and remove a reducer at the left and on the right. Then the seat can be shifted manually.
29 For seat removal fix tyres in front at a framework.
30 Remove a seat and replace tyres.