Seat bolts
 

Haynes states that I should renew the seat securing bolts when I replace the front seat. In practice is this really done cheers Bill

The short answer is NO I have never know anyone replace the seats bolts, & lots I mean lots of seats have been changed at our local meets. ;) only change them if the torx head as been chewed up which would make it hard to remove in the future.

Thanks Artic, that'll do for me.

I asked the local MGR main dealer (when there was one) exactly the same question. They said no, they never renewed the bolts.


TC

I could perhaps think the seat bolts may need replacing in the event of a crash, and only if a bum was on a seat at the time, but the impact of such a crash would render the car a wreck anyway. So I really cant imagine apart from what has been said about the torx head being chewed up a reason to replace.

It's probably just a CYA liability thing.
I've certainly never done it.

It’s because they have a thread compound on them originally which comes off when you remove them, I’ve never renewed them before but I discard any iffy looking ones & fit more used ones in their place, a drop of thread lock wouldn’t hurt but I never bother