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Part 3 - Remove backrest padding

1. Prise bottom of backrest cover out to release the 2 clips
   
   
   
2. Pull down the edge of the leather to detach from the edge of the plastic cover
   
   
   
3. Pull the leather out from around the edge of the cover. There is a plastic strip that can be prised with a screwdriver. Then pull out cover
   
   
   
4. Prise off the strip that pulls the fabric tight to the seat frame but lifting it up out of the groove
   
   
   
5. The side airbag needs to be removed. This has a single T30 bolt (circled) then slides up and out. This is refitted to 10Nm. Take note of the way it is fitted, including the way the fabric is wrapped around it as it will need to be refitted in the reverse and it is quite tricky to do
   
   
   
6. Unclip and feed out the wiring (circled in photo)
   
   
   
7. Remove the folding handle by first prising the outer trim piece, which will unclip in a few places. The handle itself needs to be pulled very firmly and it is quite difficult, but it will eventually come free (no photos)
8. The seat padding and leather will now come away from the frame as one part (lumbar support version on left, standard on right)
   

 

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Part 4 - Remove base padding

I don't have many photos for this but there aren't many steps.

1. Unclip the plastic strips around the edges of the underside of the seat base. This is quite fiddly and I used a combination of small flat screwdrivers to prise it off
   
2. There is some double sided tape holding the front edge down, so carefully peel this off so that it doesn't damage the padding foam

This shows the seat bases with the padding removed (electric on the left, manual on the right). If you need to remove the seat belt buckles, tighten them back up to 34Nm. I don't have the size but they are a spline bolt

 

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Part 5 - rear seat backrest

1. Prise the plastic trim off from around the folding handle
2. Cut the cable ties off from the bottom brackets
   
   
   
3. Unclip cable from brackets
   
   
   
4. Unzip sides of backrest, 4x zips in total
   
   
   
5. Prise out plastic clip strip with a flat screwdriver
   
   
   
6. Remove fabric strap clip
   
   
   
7. Remove padding and cover. It is held on with lots of double sided tape so be careful not to rip the padding

 

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The guides are finished. Not the most common job to need doing but hopefully useful nonetheless

 

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No I didn't, it would actually be quite tricky to remove the leather from the padding. I'd be worried it would be difficult to put back on properly, as there are wires that keep the leather in shake under there

 

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It's difficult as it's brute force but step 8 above briefly explains

Basically the outer trim is prised off but can't be removed until the handle instead is removed. This pulls off but pulling very hard in an upwards direction. Will try and get a photo for that step

Some seat trim colours are discontinued so check if it's available before pulling it off in case it breaks. Though I did remove 4 without breaking them so they are quite strong

 

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What part of the leather do you mean? The bottom corners of the strip around the sides/top?

 

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The leather has a black plastic strip sewn in. You can just about make it out in the photo of step 14

Starting at the bottom, prise it out with a small flat screwdriver. Once the edge is out, it's quite easy to pull it round

 

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I don't seem to get notified recently from this forum so missed this

Was going to say, the centre console side has cloth instead of leather. My thinking is so it doesn't "creak" when rubbing the centre console/seat belt buckle