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Old Oct 8, 2007 | 02:57 PM
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Does anyone know the procedure to remove the back panel on the seats?

A friend factory ordered the RT Nitro yet Chrysler shipped the vehicle with the wrong color seats. All the paperwork was correct from the dealer who ordered but they too overlooked the seats being incorrect in color when the vehicle finally arrived. The vehicle is electric blue and the seats the factory threw in are the ones with red stitching so it looks totally wrong. The dealer when told about this stated they would correct this by reordering the entire seats and replacing the entire seats with the correct RT covers in blue from the factoryand that these (ther entire seats) would be pulled off the assembly line. After much delay and little follow up from their end now they claim it was their intention to do this but Chrysler will not send complete seats upholstered from their end and simply sent the correct covers only to replace the incorrect ones. His concern, which is very valid, is that in order to do this there is quite a bit of extensive re and re to perform this. In the process the likelihood of damage or creating imperfections is possible. The whole point of factory ordering a vehicle was to have any necessary assembly done at the factory level and not done by hand after the fact, which allows for a very distinct possibility of creating imperfections. The back panels on the seats pose as the first major concern. It appears to remove these (there are no screws visible) they require some form of unclipping of plastic yet to do this the panel itself will be yarded on and could warp the panel itself. Also tabs that interlock could snap and break off. This is headed toward a courtroom the way it's shaping up and he has a clear case of a contractual obligation not being fulfilled. He took delivery of the vehicle also based on a statement that he would receive complete seating units off the factory floor that would be bolted in to replace these. While he's trying to be reasonable he really shouldn't have to accept what he didn't order and worse the possibility of the covers being replaced at the risk of the seats not being 100% as would be from the factory.

So the question is does anyone know how the back panels are removed properly in order to replace the seat covers with the ones Chrysler shipped to avoid their mistake?
 
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Old Nov 27, 2007 | 09:39 PM
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I had just got done doing 3 of those interiors back to back. Those back panels are held in by clips. Look like christmas tree clips but without all the branches. The way I got them out was with a trim panel tool. Just be easy with it. A couple may break but there are enough of them there to spread them out a little. key word be EASY! Good luck! I hope I dont have to do any more of those. Ill do leathers in trucks all day, but those hog rings suck ***. Later
 
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