My car has cloth seats and are manual, not power, yet I have the same problems -- they squeak like crazy. I do not think they are from the seats rubbing against the console either. I do think the noise is either coming from under the seats themselves or perhaps from the "seat-backs" -- and I hear it whenever I'm driving and taking a corner or going over a bump in the road. Also, I've noticed that the seat seems to "lean" from side to side at times when cornering hard (and no, the seats aren't broken :-) ). Any hints at solving this -- I'm going nuts?