Broken Lumbar

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Aug 28, 2008 | 01:39 AM

alloro

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Broken Lumbar

My driver's seat lumber manual control **** hasn't worked since I bought my expedition. Since my wife just had back surgery I thought I'd look into fixing it for her benefit. The dealer wanted $80 for the part. This got me thinking as to what could actually be wrong with it, so I dug into it today.

I found that the cable had snapped which start me down the path of getting pissy about having to pay $80 for a freaking cable. So me being me stared at it for a few minutes until DING, off went the bell in my head. Down to the local bike shop I went and bought a replacement cable. Just the steel insert, not the outer sheath. Then off to the hardware store for a decent cable crimp and back home I headed.

I slipped the new cable into the old newly oiled sheath, and then ran it up into the back of the seat. I then I installed the crimp at the correct length and viola the lumbar is working perfectly.

1 cable insert - $5
1 cable crimp - $0.43
Thumbing my nose at the dealer's $80 part - priceless

Aug 28, 2008 | 05:31 PM

cbradford

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Got to hand it to you alloro that's is using that thing between your ears and when ever you can bypass the dealer is a good thing or priceless as you said.