Mazda B Series Bucket Seat Handle Repair

Written By Cusser – Slight edits by MazdaMitch

I had this happen on mine, and I fixed it Home Depot style.

I used a 2-inch flat corner brace from Home Depot.
Here’s the part that broke off in picture below.
I did bend it a tad over the years as my kids kicked it in, so that likely accelerated its breakage.

Here I’m holding the corner brace over the remaining seat lever part.

I ground down the one arm a little to fit into the gray plastic handle, and tapped it in.

I drilled two 1/8 inch holes in the remaining part of the lever, to align with the two holes in the corner brace (I slid a piece of wood in behind the broken lever to protect the seat from the drill bit). Then I sanded the corner brace a little and spray-painted it black.

Holding up against the broken part.

I slid the gray cover on before installing the rivets because I already had the gray plastic handle tapped on.
Photo with the two 1/8 inch steel rivets in place but not squeezed tight yet.

Photo after installing the rivets.

I painted the rivet heads, and here’s the final result.