driver seat repair

[leone30]

Recently I attempted to swap driver and passenger seat cusion.
Removed back support with no problem, but I could not open the black plastic covers on both sides of mechanism in order to disassemble and remove the seat cusion. There is a center plastic screw. I unscrewed it but the cover did not came off. Something else holds it in place. I could rock the covers back and forward, swing a little but could not remuve. Then i desided do not break the plastic covers. Just swapped the pass and driver seats.
Seats are from standard 4 door sedan. Does anybody know how to remove those black plastic covers?
Thank you, Leon

[Tricked 323i]

Recently I attempted to swap driver and passenger seat cusion.
Removed back support with no problem, but I could not open the black plastic covers on both sides of mechanism in order to disassemble and remove the seat cusion. There is a center plastic screw. I unscrewed it but the cover did not came off. Something else holds it in place. I could rock the covers back and forward, swing a little but could not remuve. Then i desided do not break the plastic covers. Just swapped the pass and driver seats.
Seats are from standard 4 door sedan. Does anybody know how to remove those black plastic covers?
Thank you, Leon

Take the plastic screw out and just pull the top out first then pull the front towards you. My customer did a write up, it should help you.
Kevin

http://www.e30tech.com/forum/showthread.php?t=82306

[leone30]

Thak you for reply.
I did just that and i even broke small u-shaped tab on the top of the cover , but it still holds well in place. German engineering. There suppose to be proper way to remove the cover. I will try to fugure it out some times later.
Thank you