Seat bolt pattern

The seats are bolted down with five bolts each. You should use a matching Torx wrench, as the bolts are secured with threadlock.

This is the bolt pattern:
One bolt in each rail in the front - you'll see them when you move the seat back.
One bolt in the rear of the inside rail, and two bolts in the rear of the outside rail. Move the seat forward all the way to get to them.

It is an awful task to remove the seats without power to the motors...

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Unbolting them is the easy part - now try getting them out of the car..!!

 

Klaus

Can you E mail me photos of the seats and is it the Multi Contour?

Thanks
Ian

flyjets@tampabay.rr.com

 

r129 seat removal01

see this link

 

see this link
YouTube - r129 seat removal01

That video is for disassembling the seat which does not need to be done to remove the seat. Also the R129 has a much different seat than the R230.

 

Here are the WIS instructions with pictures.

Good Luck,

Bob

 

I Just did a removal of my front drivers seat on my 06 R230. Let me just say this...The WIS instructions are somewhat lacking. They state 4 bolts holding the seat down and as stated in one of the post above, there are 5. Two on the rear side of outer frame. Those bolts can be a little tricky to get to as some genius Mercedes Engineer decided to put them in a stupid location and not center them in the rail so that your socket gets caught on outer part of the rail when removing them. Then on Step 13 while your disconnecting the electrical connections you also need to disconnect the main connector on the control box under the seat. This is a little tricky. It has a locking mechanism that you must slide toward the left..(towards the driver side door) then pull it straight out the front of the control unit. Probably should disconnect the trunk battery before doing this. Just remember you will need to reconnect it to move seat back and forth to get to the bolts. Another step missing is to get the main cable out of the bottom of the seat so you can remove the seat you must slide the decorative rail cover off the front right rail and that will give you enough room to drop the cable out the bottom. I took my seat out to remove the bottom cushion/cover so that I could repair some stitching on a couple seams that were starting to separate. Its not that bad of a job....just have to take your time.

 

Thanks. Does anyone know if there is a way to reset the SRS error light without going to the dealer? After removing and re-installing my seats on my 2007 SL550 my SRS light is now activated.

 

No, you have to put it on STAR. I did this last year, I was told (too late) by the garage not to turn on the ignition once the seat was removed or the SRS warning comes on. I tried a code reader and that would not reset it so I had to go to the garage.

 

You need an appropriate diagnostic tool to reset, anyone with a tool that supports airbag can reset faults

 

Ok, Thanks

 

Does anyone know how to remove the pneumatic tube under the seat, so I can remove the seat.

 

You should be able to just pull the tube from the nipple. It might need to be heated to release and re-install the tube.