How To Dismantle your Seat

[Eddie-NL]

As I was adding Heated seats to my Vrs, I thought I would do a "How to" as it would be handy if you need to change the cover or the seat foam

Remove seats from Car, seat is fixed with 4x XZN M10 bolts (40Nm)

To dismantle the seat

Remove the Seat belt buckle holder, remove the XZN M8 Bolt

Remove the Adjustment wheel & Lumber wheel, they both pull off

There are 2x small pop rivetts, they also need to be removed. push the pin in and prise the pop rivett upwards.

Remove the height adjuster lever by releasing the small tab and pulling on it

Undo the screws that hold the front trim or Seat draw

Unclip the plastic side trim and lift it upwards

Remove the plastic trim on the other side

Using a T20 Torx screwdriver remove the lever for height adjustment and the metal bar (4x screws)

Using the M8 XZN bit remove the 4x Large Bolts, the seat will be in 2 parts

On the base part at the back un hook the plastic lip

Cover is attached to the foam with clips

Using Long Nose pliers

To reassemble is done in reverse order

Spare clips could be required

Part Number: N 015 261 1

[Davidsr20]

Great how too,very helpfull for people changing base foam too.

[nutters_uclan]

Great guide!

[Wooody]

Great guide: thank you. I used this to replace my collapsed foam seat base.

Only problems I had were:

removing the height adjuster lever: needed a strong press on the metal tab with a flat head screwdriver and a good pull over the plastic lever cover.

and separating the cover clips from the seat base: what a pain of a job: took a good couple of hours, may have been easier with better long-nose pliers, but I eneded up gripping the clips with a pair of long-nose mole grips and forcing a flat edge screwdriver between the two sides of the clip to prise it apart. This made taking the clip off the metal bars in the seat base much easier.

Putting it all back together was a piece of cake.

One other tip I read elsewhere was to disconnect the battery before unclipping the connections for the airbags and seat belt warning bleep underneath the seat. Apparently stops the airbag warning light staying on after reconnecting everything: worked for me.

[FUBAR]

Great guide thanks

[KBPhoto]

That's brilliant. Thanks Ed.

[rob_e]

Nice write up Ed.

Heated seats are lovely - every car I order i tick the box for them.

[Eddie-NL]

yes, the clips are a PITA but the long nose pliers i had made that job easier (well worth the £15 for the 3x pliers)

Cable ties would be ok too

Oddly enough I was doing RickST170s Blackline seats today, will be wiring them up tomorrow

The layout of the clips is different on a Leather Cover / Foam to my Vrs Cloth

Got my time down to 2 hours a seat. lol

[trundlenut]

Obviously if you car has had the fix for the airbag problem and the plugs replaced with soldered connections then things will a bit trickier.

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[dudgers]

Can the airbag loom be accessed by removing the seat covers? I need to replace the loom rather than do a fix.

[dudgers]

Thanks Mike,I shall do the same.

[cav-mad-gav]

A note about the clips holding on the covers - I did my Fabia seats and found that spring loaded circlip pliers were bloody ace at this,

 

Just stick the end in and squeeze.

 

 

Thanks for the guide, this is going onto my wish list.

 

How much were the pads you got ?

[Rob_Quads]

I've just been trying to remove the covers from my seats. Started on the passenger one so if it does not get done I can still drive the car. I can't seem to get the lower (larger) adjuster knob off. I've pulled it with quite some force but it won't come off (The upper one came off fine)

 

Is there a knack to it?

[Rob_Quads]

Cheers - lots of wiggling its now all sorted. Should be able to manage this fine just going to take a while Why can't the twins just occupy them selves for the day lol

 

Got this all sorted now - Both seats all installed and managed to semi-botch together some power to them as well so had a nice warm arse on the way to work