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[sassanach]

do as "weds" said remove the bolts then disconnect the battery (raise the seat to max height first tho)

[Entwood]

You guys are brilliant ...

THANK YOU

[CaptainZok]

I think the seat winding handle is for just that purpose.
Mine was in the toolkit when I bought the car.

What is one of those !! Never seen one all my "toolkit" has is a jack and wheelbrace ... wonder if the seat sellers car has the tool ....  

One of these mate, sorry about the phone cam picture.

[TheBoy]

Any spare light couloured 'dots velour' seats (front or rear) with working heaters, I will happily take off your hands

I can get the ones with broken heaters (ie, mine!) back to Sassanach if all he wants is the electrics?  Or I could try persuading him to modify my MV6 seats to full memory

[zirk]

Pretensioners - not really sure, but do they not show a 'flag' at the buckle if activated?

yes, Yellow Plastic warning plate gets left in place as the seat belt clamp gets pulled back, the other give away is that you really strugle to to secure your seat belt on the side of the seat because its a few inches lower after they've be activated.

Chris.

[Entwood]

Okies .. 394 miles later, and many thanks to Tony of Grimsby, - who had never heard of OOF but now is the pround owner of a flyer - I have in my possession 2 Elite front seats at an extremely reasonable price.

They are exactly the right trim code and the cushions are in very good condition, however some plastic bits are missing / broken and only the drivers seat has the seatbelt bit, and that is showing a yellow tag beside the slot the seatbelt goes in .. from the above that implies to me the pretensioner has fired. Some of the wiring looks like it has been "pinched" a little.

Given the fact that the only thing wrong with both my seats is in the actual seat cushion area - Pasenger seat burned, Driver seat heater inop - I am considering a different approach to the fix ... and would crave any advice and help ....

What I'm thinking is NOT to replace the complete seats with the ones I've just got, but just to change the seat base cushions. This will keep all the known working electrics and pre-tensioners etc etc and get round the broken plastic problems, which would have to be swappped anyway.

Questions ...

1.  Right idea or not ?

2. How easy is it it to change the seat cushion on its own ??

3. How do you change the seat cushions ??

any ideas very gratefully accepted