Power Seat Recliner Problem

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Today I reclined my power seat to get comfortable while sitting in a parking lot waiting for my wife to finish shopping. When she came back to the car I couldn't return the reclining seat-back up to my normal driving position. The good news is that I didn't recline it so far that I couldn't drive the car home. After we returned home I tried several times to get the seat back up. I was finally able to move the back upward when I wasn't putting any weight on the seat bottom. As soon as I put weight on the seat the back stops moving up. Reclining the seat-back down works fine, with or without any weight on the seat.

It doesn't sound like the motor is being lugged down, there's just no noise at all. It just stops moving when I put my weight on the seat bottom, and it doesn't take my full weight to stop it. It's like there's a switch in the seat that shuts the motor off. While sitting on the seat with no load on the back it still won't move, even if I try to pull it up at the same time. It had probably been several months since I had moved the seat-back, and then it worked fine.

Has anyone ever experienced this? Better yet, does someone have a fix for this?