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Trying to put my car back together and running into problems. Passenger seat went back in just fine, but driver's seat (the broken one) isn't. I think the rails are warped or something from bad weight distribution or something. I got super frustrated, so taking a break now.

Feeling a tad overheated, have a headache, and sore shoulder is acting up. And car's not driveable.

Break turned into a nap, nap turned into long nap, now it's way too dark outside to work on car. At least I have all day tomorrow to attach 4 bolts. If I can get more than 2 to line up at a time.

Okay, looks like the seat itself is twisted, and that's why it's not going back in right. Probably related to the thin aluminum that the cushion cage thingy was made of that snapped and is no longer structurally sound. I'm having a really, really hard time trying to find a whole replacement seat.

Best I've been able to come up with is replacing it with a racing seat, which costs $200+ plus brackets and other things, which is a bit overkill I think.

absolute biggest frustration with searching for something like this is finding sites selling car seat covers, and no way to tell the site that I am wanting an actual for real whole seat.

@Mycroft got a local pick'n'pull? i've had good luck with junkyards and the like, and a seat shouldn't be /too/ much

@catterfly I have no idea, how can I find that out

a ton of my frustration seems to be stemming from me not knowing the right terms to search for i think

@ThatDamnCat I just didn't anticipate this level of frustration; this is my only car I need it to drive back and forth to work :(
can't really afford to wait on things

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