Must be putting on too much weight. My GTE Sport Seat side lumbar support felt like that was a tear in the sponge. I felt it thru the fabric material when touching it. Getting in and out of the car inadvertently would put much weight on the right side seat lumbar support I would believe.
Had to disassembly the entire seat outside the car. Not an easy foam repair.
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After removing the lower seat and releasing the fabric, found the tear in the sponge. The tear was caused by the lower seat frame rubbing against the sponge. This is inevitable on all sport seats. Fortunately, mine are normal sport seats and not the full fledged sport seats or bucket seats. Those would "dig" in between your legs when you get out of the car.....the ladies hate it ! Funny feeling I believe. Even I hate it !  The culprit is the seat frame support for the side lumbar. I added some sponge wrap around the frame to reduce the digging in effect hopefully.  Under the seat foam assembly where the lumbar support bracket meets the foam, we find that the foam has a small plastic reinforcement built in the assembly. This should prevent the metal support bar from digging in the sponge material. Above pictures shows the undamaged side.  The damaged side, we found that the plastic insert inside the foam seat was actually damaged. The metal support was digging into the side of the foam edge thus causing the tear. Repaired the tear using contact cement aka rubber gum and added the mentioned sponge on the support bracket. Hope that the repair would last or else we would need a new foam seat assembly....not cheap I would think since there is a heater pad built inside.  The part number is 5G0 881375....as embossed on the seat foam assembly.  The seat pan...with the sponge wrap over the support bar. Hopefully, I would not have to dismantle this again... |
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