Removing those plastic rings around the seat headrest posts?

[treed2 at u.washington.edu (T. Reed)]

Ron,

You can really remove the upholstry with those in place? Hmm, didn't
notice that possibility when I last touched them about 3 years ago. But
you probably do need to pull them to replace the seatback foam (which I
was doing at the time).

BTW one other thing you might try to compress those plastic rings is a
flare nut wrench (like the ones from brake lines, but 17mm or so) or a
socket or something. I managed to get mine out without -too- great of
difficulty just using pliers.. but they are a PITA.

-Toby

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Ron Pieper wrote:

> Your choices are:
>
> A. Don't remove them, you can do all your upholstery work, including removal and install, with
> those in place,
>
> B.  Reach up inside and compress the 3 or 4 little tangs all at once and slide them out.  These
> dudes are about 6" long.  I used a baster tube to slip over the inside end - it just happened to
> be the right size.  It's a grand PITA.  After all this, I had pretty beat up hands - and they're
> ugly on a good day.  Also, I thenceforth switched to method A, above, with wunnerfull results.
>
> HTH
>
> Ron
>
> --- Jeff Toomasson <jtoomasson@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > these are the plastic rings on top of the back-support at the base of the headrest posts
> > (sometimes you just can't get enough into those Subject lines!  :)
> >
> > How the hell do you remove these without absolutely destroying them? I've actually almost
> > destroyed one and still got nowhere!
> >
> > Didn't get to spend too much time investgating though as I had to hop into the shower for our
> > dinner plans!
> >
> > Thanks and hope you all had a great weekend!
> >
> > JT
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------
> > Do you Yahoo!?
> > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software
> > _______________________________________________
> > Scirocco-l mailing list
> > Scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> > http://neubayern.net/mailman/listinfo/scirocco-l
>
>
> __________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software
> http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> Scirocco-l mailing list
> Scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> http://neubayern.net/mailman/listinfo/scirocco-l
>