MKV GTi Leather Lumbar Support not working

[gmc]

I had a similar failure in my car, but in my case the planetary gears failed with 2 of them broken and the 3rd damaged as a result. The plastic pulley was still ok albeit a little distorted.

[99_FGT]

Interesting that GMC's failed in a different mode, but lucky for him in that my planetary gears were still intact (Auspost has them now GMC). Another member - KFiddy - has had his fail, not sure how yet, and he has first dibs on the motor. I think he is also going to look into whether the L&R seats are the same. One thing I didn't realise is that the up/down and in/out motor are assymetrical for mounting on opposite sides of the seat, as well as having a different wire mech (it is the in/out motor that seems to fail).
Al..

[gmc]

Thanks Al!!

All fixed today and good as new.

The only trouble was having to buy 100 rivets to use 3 out of the box...

[KFiddy]

how did you fix? did you do a motor replacement?

Thanks Al!!

All fixed today and good as new.

The only trouble was having to buy 100 rivets to use 3 out of the box...

[99_FGT]

K - GMC's motor failed differently to mine, so we were able to make a working one out of two broken ones.
If you need rivets to fasten your motor back up, GMC's your man. He has 97 spare!
Al..

[KFiddy]

well after a big weekend of car work i finally got to the motor - pulled it out and opened it up to find a box full of broken gears, like GMC but without the smiley face ! now to replace

[KFiddy]

well changed the gears from spare motor 99_FGT sent me all reinstalled - works like new! Thanks 99 for a great write up

[99_FGT]

Glad it worked Kev,
from one order of the parts (totalling under $500) we have managed to fix the lumbar support on 3 cars. Something VW quoted me $1600 to fix mine. I'd say that is a win!

[insanekiwi]

Hi 99_FGT,

I PMed you today.

My driver's seat makes clicky noise and doesn't move in all directions.

Is 1k0-881-879a part all I need, or do I need to order anything else for the repair?

Motor makes noise, but doesn't move as well as the passenger's seat.

[jessv3]

How often do people really adjust the lumbar? Maybe I'm ignorant but I always have viewed lumbar as a set and forget feature. I certainly wouldn't spend 1k fixing it if it it broke, infact I had the leather seats in my gti retrofitted (out of another gti which was wrote off) because my car had the tartan from the factory it meant I didn't have the wiring for the electric lumbar or heated seats and I have not bothered getting the car wired up as I haven't missed either feature, nor has any one else who drives my car.