Discovery 1 – How to fix front seat back support?

Did your front seat lose its lower back support?

Mine did. that thing bugged me from the day I bought my Land Rover Discovery. there was no lower back support at all. Now days, when we are at home due to the Corona virus, I found the time to remove the seat and fix that.

I was a little surprised when I found out that the mechanism behind the lower back support is so simple and the fix is so easy.

Required Tools:

• 10mm socket & wrench
• T50 socket
• Flat screw driver

First, we have to take the seat out of the car, there are 2x 10mm bolts on the front of the seat rails (you may need to slide the seat all the way back to see them) and 2X T50 (torx) bolts on the rear side of the rails:

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last one is the seat belt T50 that is on the side of the seat.

Pull the seat out and put is on your working table.

Pull the seat leaning knob

Turn the seat over, remove the 3 plastic clips:

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Pull the “plastic rail” and remove the lower part of the fabric:

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Now, you can see the problem: the stripe in the picture below should be connected to the other side of the seat, but, the metal was broken and it just lay there.

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The fix is simple, connect that stripe to the other side (make sure that the relevant know is fully open while doing so and that when you turn it, the stripe is being stretched)

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Install everything back in place, that is it. simple fix.