removing the head rest

Some yrs back the pr owner has repainted the interior went from tan to cream what a balls up they did ...they used paint that coats the leather it do's not absurb into the leather it just covers it ... so i said FI it i started to stripped the inside i estimate to remove all the old paint off all the int it's gonna take me about 1 1/2 days then im gonna letherique i will go back to tan it will post some pics as i go along.......need help so whats the go with removing the head rest ..............cheers

 

rizzo308

Feel down from the top of the back of the seat along where the metal head rest rods enter.

PUSH HARD.

You will feel a "bump" somewhere between the top of the seat and several inches down. The top of that bump is the headrest detent.

Push IN HARDER STILL (toward the front of the seat) and have someone else pull the headrest up and out.


The headrest will come up/out, but it may take a few tries with resulting tired hands and/or thumbs.



My is a 1981 GTSi NA version. That is how I got mine out for re-leathering. YMMV.


Best of Luck.

 

cheers mark....... i'll give it a shot tomorrow

 

is there only one headrest detent or is there 2 one on each rod

 

goodluck. on my 81 gtsi i had to remove the seat back covers and remove the upper leather so i could get to the circle clips that act as the stops for the notches in the head rest rods. there was nothing to push. jon s

 

i could not feel the clips so i took one of seats to my trimmer had to remove the leather also withnthe leather remove then the clips were visable
now i know what to look for the other seat was a piece of p#ss

 

Riggo,

Sorry as I am in Ukraine with marginal I-Net access at the moment. Had a hell of a time getting here (took two days from Germany) to boot.

Did you get the headrest out of the other seat?

mwr