W202 Drivers seat removal and foam replacement

[adam_madam]

Dear all, I have just completed the removal and foam replacement on the drivers seat of my W202 1998 250 TD, the foam cost me £4.50 from a local craft shop and it took approximately 2 hours to complete the job.
I took stage by stage photo's, please let me know if you want them and I'll email out.
I am hoping to be able to post the whole series in the DIY forum so hopefully you should be able to get them there.

The seat feels like new, firm and springy...and even though the passenger one doesn't really need doing, I think I may just do it anyway.

 

[Blobcat]

Pls post up the how to and I can move it to the DIY section, pls don't make the pictures larger than 800x600 (640 x 480 is ideal). You can also get the seat pad from Mercedes

 

[PeterCLK]

If you are buying foam for any seating application make sure it's S class (foam classification) otherwise it will collapse in use.
For a thinnish piece in a car seat I would insist upon minimum 40 density - or even 50.

 

[vijilants]

Dear all, I have just completed the removal and foam replacement on the drivers seat of my W202 1998 250 TD, the foam cost me £4.50 from a local craft shop and it took approximately 2 hours to complete the job.
I took stage by stage photo's, please let me know if you want them and I'll email out.
I am hoping to be able to post the whole series in the DIY forum so hopefully you should be able to get them there.

The seat feels like new, firm and springy...and even though the passenger one doesn't really need doing, I think I may just do it anyway.

I need to replace te pad on the drivers seat on my w202. Can you advise on how to take the bottom leather part off and how to replace the pad ?

Thanks

 

[adam_madam]

Leather off

To remove the leather simply:

Remove seat
Tip upside down, you will see the leather appears to be folded under the underside lip....it is!
The leather is stitched to a hard piece of cardboard each running along the sides and tapped into the space.
This bit takes gradual but forceful movement: I used a screwdriver to losen the start of the cardboard bar and pulled gradually until all was released, repeat this for each side.
Once the leather is loose around the sides sit the seat the correct way up and pull the leather sides up.
You will see that rather than the leather being stitched to produce the effect of individual pads it is in fact a series of metal bars clipped into place between the foam.
Unclip where you need too, replace or add foam where you wish, re-clip the bars into place.
Repeat the process to re-fit and re-tap the cardboard slats into place. I used a lightweight wooden hammer to tap the slats back in as they're a little tight.
It sounds a little long winded, but it's very easy.

 

[vijilants]

Hi ,

Managed to replace my seat pad today....wasn't soo easy getting leather back into place with the various sponge pieces already provided, placed back into the correct place and getting the edges back into the ridge around the frame was really hard work !!!!

My seat doesn't look 100% right but I just cant go through all of that again to get it right