Passenger front seat removal

BAIKAR · Post by **BAIKAR** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 8:05 am

Anyone know the best way to remove the passenger side front manual seat? I can see the bolts on the seat runners but don't have a socket that fits this. It's like a torx but with alot more splines. Also if you disconnect the seat electrics/seat belt pretensioners will it bring a fault light on?

wigit · Post by **wigit** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 9:09 am

a few guys with mkv gtis have swapped seats and noticed they get an airbag error (from side airbags not being connected)

BAIKAR · Post by **BAIKAR** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:52 am

Do you know where a socket can be sourced

BAIKAR · Post by **BAIKAR** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 6:55 pm

anyone with elsawin know the torque setting for the seat bolts

Andy-GTI · Post by **Andy-GTI** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 7:46 pm

Without actually looking at the seat bolts i'd guess they are likely XZN spline heads bolts. VW use them in various places across the range.

X13NGX · Post by **X13NGX** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 11:29 am

I recently replaced my Drivers Side seat cover base, after an unfortunate wallpaper scraper incident

, picked up a set of spline sockets that fit all of the bolts on the seat from Machine Mart for about £16.

BAIKAR · Post by **BAIKAR** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 6:02 pm

X13NGX wrote:I recently replaced my Drivers Side seat cover base, after an unfortunate wallpaper scraper incident , picked up a set of spline sockets that fit all of the bolts on the seat from Machine Mart for about £16.

did you have any bother with the airbag lights? did you disconnect the wiring under the seat ?

X13NGX · Post by **X13NGX** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 7:00 pm

BAIKAR wrote:
X13NGX wrote:I recently replaced my Drivers Side seat cover base, after an unfortunate wallpaper scraper incident , picked up a set of spline sockets that fit all of the bolts on the seat from Machine Mart for about £16.

Completely removed the drivers seat and took it into the garage to fit the new cover - disconnected the ISO connectors under the seat (3 in total if memory serves), completely removed the wiring loom from the botom of the seat for fitting the new cover then replaced it all, no problems with air bag lights, just made sure everything was connected before I turned the ignition on again. Hope hat helps.

BAIKAR · Post by **BAIKAR** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 8:07 pm

did you disconnect the battery first? i'm surprised you didn't get a fault

also what torque did you use for refitting the bolts on the seat runners?

Andy-GTI · Post by **Andy-GTI** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 8:38 pm

You won't get a fault unless you turn the ignition on with it disconnected.

when you turn on the ecu's go through a self test routine to check everything is ok, and will throw a fault code if the air bags are disconnected.

If you disconnect, do what you're doing and then lug back in the car won't throw a code.

Evil Derboy · Post by **Evil Derboy** » Fri May 01, 2009 7:25 am

inimic · Post by **inimic** » Fri May 01, 2009 10:49 pm

Evil Derboy wrote:Can't believe no ones asked this already but I'm curious, why are you removing the passenger seat?

Maybe he's got a really big passenger that won't fit?

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