Hi there

My 2016 L&K estate has the additions levers in the boot for folding down the rear seats.  Early on they went faulty but that was an easy fix, just pulling off the trim piece on the seat base and re-seating the cable.

Just redoing this repair and one side is fine and now works, but on the drivers side I think the cable that goes up the back of the seat has gone awry.  So I think the only way to get to this is to remove some of the upholstery.

Does anyone know if there is a non destructive way to remove the upholstery from the side of the seat and also the carpet on the back of the seat (in the boot)?

Any other ideas also welcome.

Obviously don't want to go too crazy as I can still flatten the seats using the normal seat release.

TIA

Nick

Have a look on cardiag.com.

You can download workshop manuals and especially « body repair, interior » should be helpful for you. 😉

Thanks for the idea, but that site sells car diagnostic gear. Couldn’t see any manuals. 

Cardiagn.com is what he meant  

 

also, it’s not an easy job I promise you, the seat back doesn’t come off. It’s a stuck on piece of fabric.clips all round the side need to come off to release the seat cover, unclipping it will  break some clips and bend some fitting points. Takes a good few patient hours 

 

if you can bend the fabric out the way enough that’s fine but you may need hog rings and hog ring pliers to take the fabric off fully 

Right.  Thanks for that.  I had a suspicion that it might be a bit of a bugger getting that off.  I think the thing to is to just use the seat button !   But many thanks for the input!

 

allthingsgood

Nick

5 hours ago, ApertureS said:

Cardiagn.com is what he meant  

Yes, sorry for the mistyping!

Thanks @ApertureS for correcting me !