Mid/rear Seats Assembly problems of the 2002 Ford Explorer Sport

Took vehicle in to have NHTSA action number pe03020 - bolt replace due to back of seat falling backwards during driving. Bolt broke allowing the seat back to fall backwards. Was informed by airport Ford (dealership) that due to the broken bolt that the seat frame was damaged and I would have to pay $350 to get the frame fixed. Ford dealer indicated that they could not replace bolt due to damage to seat frame - which was caused by the bolt breaking. Called Ford motor CO and they said that as far as they knew the damaged seat frame caused the bolt (which was on the recall) to break. So the dealer returned the vehicle without replacing the bolt with the seat is still broken. Wording from dealership "inspect- found unable to replace bolt-sheered off inspec condition of mounting area into seat bottom frame seat back are both damaged. - Ford decline replaced both frame sections due to time length of open recall open since 2003. Cust decline repairs - no action taken - return veh to customer in condition vehicle came here with. Ford is wanting me to pay $350. 00 to fix something that their $2. 00. Defective bolt damaged.

The contact owns a 2002 Ford Explorer Sport. While driving at an unknown speed, the left side of the driver's seat detached from the base, causing the contact to fall back against the rear seats. Prior to the failure, he noticed that the seat would only recline in one vertical position. There was no crash involved and the vehicle has not been diagnosed by the dealer. The current and failure mileages were 85,000.

Consumer states that the rear seat is not locked on track causing the seat to move backs and forth while vehicle is in motion.