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Originally Posted by Jungle_Jim
1 Removing the vertical section of the back seat...
How? I just can't see how to detach it from the two pivot points either side.
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Tricky, but it helps to understand how it works so you know what you need to do.
The bottom pivots consist of mushroom-shaped pegs sticking out from the seat. They are spring-loaded INWARDS, so you need a long and thin screwdriver to insert down the slot in the catch mounted on the wing, to prise the peg outwards so that the seat can be lifted up.
Having got one side free, it won't move far until you have released the other side also. If you turn your back on the first one it will fall back down again. So you need to wedge the seat upwards with a block of wood.
I once had to get the cover off to get inside to replace one of the operating wires from the knob to the latch. There is a row of little metal clips holding the bottom bits of plastic together. These have to be removed, then with the zips undone the cover can be slid upwards like a very tight corset.
It's worth remembering that if the seat ever is reluctant to free from the catches when you are trying to fold it down, the knob does not actually pull on the catches themselves. Lifting the knob merely allows the spring-loaded catches to release. If they won't, then they themselves are sticking.
Most damage to the plastic knob and the mechanism comes from over-enthusiastic pulling, which is pointless. You are simply removing a locking catch, not operating the release mechanism itself.