New 2018 ford expedition platinum electric headrest removal
We're Replacing leather with cloth for customer,
but the third row has two electric headrests that
we can't remove so far. They have a button at the
base of each headrest post, each button also has a
pinhole. The buttons are flush with the
surrounding plastic. We've pushed the buttons,
pushed pins in the holes, and gotten nowhere. Is
there an electric release? We have the seat
opened. We have access from all sides, but the
obvious isn't working. Suggestions?
Once you remove the seat coverings you may be able to see the mechanism inside. You may have to make a seam at the posts.
In the end we did make a seam at the top of the rear seats, but I wasn't satisfied with not being able to remove the headrests. The front seats have what appears to be a similar mechanism, which allow you to remove the plastic insert that the metal headrest posts insert into. I took photos of that, thinking it would maybe work for the third row, but I tried after the 3rd row covers were.back on and I wasn't able to get it to work. On the front seats, you can push in a tab on the door side of the plastic insert below the headrest. And pull up on the plastic insert. You can push this clip easily from below, inside the back of the seat if the cover is removed. Hope the photo helps. I want to add more photos but it's not working.
Photo of the upper end of the open back of driver's seat. Push clip from left.
One more of the plastic insert as it would be when installed. Aboit amd inch and a half of Foam and leather would cover the tab you need to push, all the way down by the metal. I'm not sure these photos are applicable to the third row, but i think they might be the same system. I just couldn't push in the tab in the third row seat.
I’m having the exact issue with 3rd row seat headrests in my 2021 expedition Max that I just purchased for the single reason of seating older toddlers back there in booster seats so smaller children can be seated in mid row, large family need large car but this is ridiculous can’t figure out how to remove 3 R.D. row headrests to safely install booster seats! Help?!
