Setting the Soft Stop

WARNING: This page is about a different car, the 2016 Lincoln MKS. However, it is still accessible from the selected car via links, so may be relevant.

NOTE: If a new DSM has been installed, all power driver seat soft stops must be reset. If a new seat track or recline motor has been installed, only reset the soft stops for that component being installed new.

Use the following procedure once a new seat track, recline motor or DSM has been installed.

During the setting procedure, one second after a seat track or seat backrest axis reaches its end of travel in either direction, the DSM will move the motor being used on that particular axis a small amount in the opposite direction of the way the switch is being pressed. Once the motor has moved the seat track or backrest this small amount, the soft stop is set and the switch can be released.

1.

Turn the ignition key to the ON position.

2.

Press the seat control switch horizontal button forward until the seat track stops.

3.

Keep the horizontal button pressed forward for one second after the seat track reaches its forward end of travel. The seat track will then move back a small amount. The horizontal forward soft stop has been set, release the switch button.

4.

Repeat Steps 2 and 3 for all seat track and backrest axes in both directions.