Removal

REMOVAL

WARNING: To avoid personal injury or death, on vehicles equipped with airbags, disable the supplemental restraint system before attempting any steering wheel, steering column, airbag, occupant classification system, seat belt tensioner, impact sensor, or instrument panel component diagnosis or service. Disconnect and isolate the battery negative (ground) cable, then wait two minutes for the system capacitor to discharge before performing further diagnosis or service. This is the only sure way to disable the supplemental restraint system. Failure to take the proper precautions could result in accidental airbag deployment.


WARNING: To avoid personal injury or death on vehicles equipped with the occupant classification system (OCS), only the occupant classification module (OCM) and the seat cushion trim may be serviced separately. All other components of the passenger side front seat cushion assembly must be serviced only as a complete factory-calibrated, assembled and tamper-evident service replacement package. This package includes the bladder, sensor, foam, wiring and a calibrated OCM. When installing this package always replace all of the existing components with the new components as a unit. Do not attempt to separate or disconnect any of the new OCS components in the service replacement package from each other, and do not attempt to reuse any of the replaced components in this or any other vehicle. Failure to take the proper precautions could result in failure of the passenger airbag to deploy when required, or in passenger airbag deployment when not required.


NOTE: On Leather trimmed seats, the back cover can be removed from the back foam pad. On Cloth trimmed seats, the seat back cover does not separate from the back foam pad.

1. Remove headrest sleeves (Figure 1).






Figure 1 HEADREST SLEEVE





2. Remove armrest cap and attaching bolt (Figure 2) and (Figure 3).






Figure 2 FRONT SEAT ARMREST










Figure 3 FRONT SEAT ARMREST BOLT





3. Remove lumbar handle (Figure 4).






Figure 4 LUMBAR HANDLE





4. Remove the seat back panel (Figure 5).






Figure 5 FRONT SEAT BACK PANEL





5. Release seat back cover hook and loop strip (Figure 6).






Figure 6 FRONT SEAT BACK COVER





6. Unclip J-straps (Figure 7) and (Figure 8).






Figure 7 FRONT SEAT BACK LOWER










Figure 8 FRONT SEAT BACK





7. Pull seat back cover and foam free of seat back frame assembly (Figure 9).






Figure 9 FRONT SEAT BACK COVER & FOAM
8. Lift seat back cover and foam from the seat back frame (Figure 10).






Figure 10 FRONT SEAT BACK COVER/FOAM
9. Separate seat back cover from the foam by siding the locking strips through the keepers (Figure 11) and (Figure 12).






Figure 11 FRONT SEAT BACK COVER










Figure 12 FRONT SEAT BACK FOAM





10. Remove seat back cover from vehicle.