On the driver side front seat of mi 81 300D, one of the pleat inserts has been slowly sliding backwards out of its track.

Anyone seen this, and know a good method to get the wool pleat slid back into place?

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2012 B Class

1981 300D - Now with greazzer

When mine did that. The fabric that is sown onto the back of the MBTex was rotting, but the felt pieces have stayed in place so far, I found nothing that held them except for the friction of the rotting cloth backing, so mine will start moving again. Time for a new Seat!

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1985 300D-189k The 'UD', Ivory and Pinkamino
1979 300D-211k Dark Gray, Parchment
A 1980 Harley-~166k and
A 1994 Ford diesel pickup-349k and
A 1990 gasser Volvo wagon-145k

Replce the muslin and stitch it. Check this thread to see what I mean.

PeachPartsWiki: Rear Seat Spring Repair

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Chad
2006 Nissan Pathfinder LE
1998 Acura 3.0 CL
OBK#44
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

SOLD
1985 300TD - Red Dragon
1986 300SDL - Coda
1991 - 300TE
1995 - E320
1985 300CD - Gladys

By the time these seat hit 20 yrs or sooner, the Muslin backing rots as Chad mentioned. every good looking seat I have have pulled at PNP will be this way. I dropped off one seat cover at an upholstery shop to have the guy sew it up for me. after 2 months of excuses, i picked it up and fixed it my self.

My wifes sewing maching would not sew through the fabric w/o it bunching up. need a maching with a walking foot to move both pieces of material together. was looking at industrial machines but pricy and take up a lot of room.

so I used Hot Glue and some muslin my wife had. started in the middle, laid down a bead of glue, pushed the cloth down into it. then went to the right of it and did the next seam. then moved to the left and did that line and so on. came out looking pretty good. this is on my 80 240D. those years didn`t have the deeper pleats as the 85 has.

When we bought the 85 back in 97, the drivers seat was in bad shape. so we took the seat to a shop and the guy ordered the new seat cover set. looked like a brand new seat.
within that year the pleats starting to move back from the front edge. then one day I see these things sticking out under the seat in the rear.
remove the seat and cover to discover that the felt strips are not sewn in at the front. so this is the first of using hot glue to hold them in and still looks like a new seat.

If I had a industrial machine then I wouldn`t use the hot glue. but ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

Charlie

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there were three HP ratings on the OM616...

1) Not much power
2) Even less power
3) Not nearly enough power!! 240D w/auto

Anyone that thinks a 240D is slow drives too fast.

80 240D Naturally Exasperated, 4-Spd 388k DD 150mph spedo 3:58 Diff

We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics. Funny how that works

That was a 'doh' moment for me. My driver's seat is worn a bit too much to want to do this too, except for the fix mentioned below..

This I will try, even as practice on the well worn drivers seat.

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1985 300D-189k The 'UD', Ivory and Pinkamino
1979 300D-211k Dark Gray, Parchment
A 1980 Harley-~166k and
A 1994 Ford diesel pickup-349k and
A 1990 gasser Volvo wagon-145k

Thanks, great feedback. I can see that all of the pleats are moving back to some degree. Understand what to do now.

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2012 B Class

1981 300D - Now with greazzer