I believe at the time the Olds Toronado and the Cadillac Seville shared a chassis with the Riveria. I believe the convertibles for all three were made by ASC under license from GM.
Why does it seem like behind the camera, you’re pounding a foot long hot dog & smoking a cig, slamming beers out of clear plastic cups while sporting a Mike Dictka mustache..?
All the power features just need taken apart and cleaned! They were not inferior! tear them down and not unlike an old record changer, dissolve old lube, apply new silicone grease .. clean connections and dielectric grease! "Lazy Car Garage" much? lol
Although I appreciate the input I have to respectfully disagree. I've been down these roads more than I can count. The seats in particular. All the gearing inside the motors and movement transmission are all plastic. They get brittle and break down over time. Same with the gears inside the window motors and lock actuators. Yes, some lubrication can sometimes help but never quite solves the main issue. The 80's was a decade of cheap plastics. In the defense of the auto makers however, they never intended for us to still be driving these cars 40 years later. The parts served the purpose for the time. My 1957 Imperial has all it's original motors and electronics and it all works like it was installed yesterday.
Those cheap plastic gears are what makes these throw away cars for the most part. More and more systems will fail over time and it will quickly become a money pit unfortunately.
