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Rear seat handle replacement, Torslanda 1992

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Old Jun 7th, 2022, 18:24   #11
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Cheers Bugjam , step by step info!👍🍺
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As I said above, it’s pretty simple and doesn’t require any special tools.

Pop the rectangular trim off the outside off the latch with a flat bladed screwdriver

Undo the two Philips headed screw you can now see

Pull the latch gently towards you out of the backseat- it’s still connected to the cables

Note how the cables go on and release the metal clips holding them with needle nose pliers

Remove the cables

Remove old latch completely.

Hold the new latch in about the right place,

Attach cables

Replace metal clips

Screw back into position

Replace surrounding trim.

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That's really helpful, I hoped it would be something like that but feared the worst. Only one problem that I see - in desperation the other day to try to find a way to lower the seat I attempted to remove the surrounding plastic trim, and managed to break a piece off it so gave up. Any ideas how to safely remove it? I hope that I can glue the broken bit back but otherwise will be trying to source another piece of trim.
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This is what it looks like, to release insert a flat bladed screwdriver behind the trim halfway way down the left side and turn it until the clips release, then do the same on the right side.

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This is what it looks like, to release insert a flat bladed screwdriver behind the trim halfway way down the left side and turn it until the clips release, then do the same on the right side.

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Perfect, Thanks, hadn't realised there were clips, assumed it was just pressed in, but it's a Volvo, after all, should have taken that into consideration!
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Well I succeeded! It's generally as explained by Bugjam 1999, though I met one or two snags along the way. Firstly it's a task much more easily undertaken with the seat lying flat, oh the irony! I suppose it might be possible to release each side with a screwdriverr or something but I have neither the strength nor the courage to do that, I didn't want to risk causing damage.

Firstly I managed to completely destroy the plastic trim, so will need to source a new one, if anyone knows where I can get one please let me know. The clips need to be pushed up, not in - I didn't register that from the picture, just assumed!

The screws holding the actual handle are slightly concealed behind the carpeting but it was possible to hold the fabric far enough to access the screws, which are small enough to be easily lost! On my car the heads aren't philips but the multi-sided type (torx or somesuch?) That was the easy bit, working the latch out from behind the frame was fiddly. I tried releasing the lower part first but then couldn't bring the thing down far enough to release the top. I managed eventually, can't recall quite how, but it is possible, be assured. There was plenty of slack in the cables, and again on my car there's a white plastic bracket which holds the cables in place, very reassuring (I think it was that, and the pegs it fixes to which prevented the latch from sliding downwards). The little clip Bugjam referred too was tricky, it's a sort-of washer but one designed not to slide off! I could I suppose have simply cut off the plastic and worked the clip the other way, in retrospect I wish I had. Eventually after being 'persuaded' with some choice words it submitted. After that it was a matter of pulling a little on the wire to loop it over the new handle, replace the clip and push the white bracket back onto its pegs, not difficult, and work the assembly back behind the frame.

I'm sorry I didn't stop to take pictures, which would have helped, but I was up against time. Any blood-stains are concealed - there are some sharp edges! I had an additional handicap as the dog/luggage guard was a bit of an obstruction, and I never have been able to source new plastic clips which hold it up to the roof. Also I nearly lost one of the screws behind the carpeting, which would have been a nuisance! Fortunately the screwdriver is magnetic.

All in all a straightforward job especially for someone younger, not quite so for a re-hipped septuagenarian old biddy. I did eventually decide to use a cushion to kneel on!

Thanks Bugjam, without your information I would have been really struggling.
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Thanks Angie! 😘

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