Front Seat Power Adjust problems of the 2004 Honda Pilot

Bracket on left front power seat broke; it holds the seat to the floor; and seat rocks back and is not fastened at left front to the car. Very dangerous and must be fixed.

The driver's seat popped and now tilts backwards from the left. Upon investigation I found the exact problem others have reported to NHTSA regarding this year model: the left side bracket that holds the motor for the power seat back broke along the rivet line. This holds the seat bottom to body of the seat. This was perfectly described in a complaint lodged 4/25/2015 from tampa, FL. This appears.

A bracket that connects the drivers set to the seat adjuster assembly failed catastrophically. This bracket is on the front left side approximately behind the power seat controls. The seat is now unattached from the adjuster assembly and quite unsafe. This happened while getting in the vehicle. The broken bracket may be part of adjuster assy. , l. Reclining, 81630-s3v-a30, but it is hard for me to tell since the exploded parts diagram that I have access to does not seem to match, quite, what I see. Based on parts and labor, I estimate the cost to repair this defect to be in the $800-1200 range.

Driver's power seat assembly part broke, which separated the seat from the power movement assembly. Seat rocks back and feels like slight pressure could completely disengage the seat from the car. Seat rocking while driving is very dangerous.

Driver's power seat assembly part broke, which separated the seat from the power movement assembly. Seat rocks back and feels like slight pressure could completely disengage the seat from the car. Seat rocking while driving is very dangerous. It appears to be a small metal bar which runs from the seat assembly to the "slide adjustment assembly". It is a very small component of item reference number 14 (p/n: 81660-s3v-a30) of the "front seat components (l. ) (power)" for the 2004 Honda Pilot 5dr ex - ka5at. Specifically, the metal bar seems to attach to the rod which rotates when the seat is tilted forward or backward. The bar is designed to be fixed to the rod, which when rotating, pushes the other end of the bar (attached to the front end of the seat bottom) up or down, resulting in the seat tilting back or forward. It is the only part securing the front-left of the seat to the adjustment assembly. Reading around the internet, this appears to be a common problem with this generation of Pilot.