Removing those plastic rings around the seat headrest posts?

[jtoomasson at yahoo.com (Jeff Toomasson)]

thanks to all who got back to me on this - unfortunately, I have to remove
them...   1) I have virtually destroyed one already  2) they're blue (A1 GTi
vintage) and the upholstery I'm installing is tan...

Looks like I'm going the baster route!

Thanks again - JT
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Pieper" <rapieper@yahoo.com>
To: "Jeff Toomasson" <jtoomasson@yahoo.com>; <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: Removing those plastic rings around the seat headrest posts?


> 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
> >
> >
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