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Easy, inexpensive, and straightforward fix: Hi, I am Brian, and I purchased two 3" Torx T55 bolts from Dave, of earlier posts in this forum. I also purchased two zinc-plated steel, unthreaded spacers ( 1" OD, 1.5 " length, 1/2 inch screw size ), from McMaster-Carr @mcmaster.com. The part no. is 92415A466 - with 1/2 in. screw size. I also had to buy sockets for the 1.5 " Torx T55 bolts ( to remove them )and the replacement 3" Torx T55 bolts. It was a matter of: -removing the two 1.5 " bolts, each holding one of the right or left railings that the passenger seat slides back and forth upon ( when being adjusted ) to the floor, behind the passenger seat -lifting the back of the seat so the rear side of the railings comes off of the floor. -inserting the spacers between the floor and the railing, and threading each of the 3" bolts through the railing, the spacer, and into the threaded hole in the floor that the original 1.5 " bolt was screwed into. -tighten 3" bolts, by feel, about as tight as it took to untighten the 1.5"bolts. Seems to work well. Seems pretty structurally sound but maybe a little less than it was originally because with the railing raised, a metal peg extending down from the railing, to the front of the Torx bolt, no longer reaches a second hole to the front of the hole for the Torx bolt. Based on how sturdy the raised railing feels, I am not concerned about this.