[W126 Coupe] Front Seat Removal

[Dick Spellman]

Hi Dan,

Sorry to hear you are having troubles. You may just want to apply a few 
of my notes and some of Mike Ramay's.  Slide the seat forward and remove 
the two rear seat floor bolts.  Now see if you can lift the back end a 
bit and place a wood block under the steel foot rail.  This should give 
you sufficient space to inspect the single plastic vacuum line that 
comes up from the floor pan and  plugs into a press fit joint for the 
integral seat vacuum feed to the seat lock.  In other words, they may 
just have disconnected.  If this is all that needs fixing it may save 
you additional effort all around.

The seat bolt plastic covers are MB dealer only.  You may just find a 
list type with a few on hand that match your color...

-\Dick

On 9/9/2011 8:15 AM, L&D gardner wrote:

>

> Hi Folks

> I have done some research and it looks like I am not the only one to 

> have a problem trying to remove the front seat bolt plastic covers 

> without breaking them,due to the fact that the have put two slots in 

> the sides which catch on the seat rail and also cause a weakness in 

> the clip,the fact that they put a rear clip in place why would you 

> need to add two locking slots?.

>

> I have come to the conclusion that while MBZ engineers may be 

> brilliant,the design side of things may be less than well thought out 

> when it comes to assembly and disassembly.Take  instrument 

> illumination for example ,if a globe blows it should be relatively 

> easy to change in a car,you should not have to rip out the the dash.

>

> Does anyone know if I can buy new clips without going to an MBZ dealer?

>

>

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> Kind Regards  Dan Gardner 1986 560 SEC Euro (220kw)

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