Installing rear headrests in your E30
This is not very common, but very nice and almost easy procedure.
The rear headrests give you car a classy limo look, and it feels much comfortable when you are inside. And it is much for your passengers riding on the back seat to lay their heads down.
For the owners of E30 Touring, this mod is pretty much Plug&Play as the tourings come with OEM metal brackets that hold the headrest.
For the sedans/coupes you must get the brackets and install them in place.
OK, here is the DIY.
1. Materials
- Exacto knife
- 2 color matching rear headrests
- 4 plastic covers with their clips to hold them in place
- 4 plastic things that go inside the brackets and adjust the headrest height
- Flat screwdriver
2. Installation
I mentioned the touring has the metal brackets. If you already welded them to your sedan/coupe, you are ready to go too.
Here is a picture of the metal brackets:
All the parts needed:
First you need to remove the rear seat back sections. They are held in place with a pop-up button looking towards the center of the car (left for the right seat and right for the left seat)
Push the pop-up button inside with the flat screwdriver and putt out the seat. It should come out easely.
Now you must have two separated parts of the back seat.
To undo the soft part from the metal plate in the back you should:
Slide the back cover of the seat down, it should come out easy. Once you remove it you should see the metal plate.
The soft part is held to the plate by 6 clips - 4 at each side and 2 at the bottom of the seat, like this:
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I found it easier to push one of the lower clips with the screwdriver. With room to reach in and grab the soft part you should unclip the rest of it easier. The rest of the job is to pull UP the seat cover.
You will end up like this:
You can see the position of the clips (the white things inside the metal plate.
Now locate the 2 holes in the foam on the back of the seat. This is where the headrest goes in.
Use some long object to push in the center and mark it on the outside of the seat.
Once done, use the exacto knife to cut an X in the seat, to make a hole.
Use the plastic covers now, put them in place and then put on the inside the plastic white clips(stoppers) to hold them in place. This is a little tricky to put the white plastic ring with so little place for hands, but use imagination.
Finished product:
Now put the other plastic things inside the metal brackets on the plate. They have 2 "pins" that allow only one possible way to put them in. Push all the way down until they clip themselves.
Assembly the seat in the reverse order and if you've done all correctly, you should be able to put the headrest in place, nice and tight.
Do the same with the other seat.
And Voila! You have rearheadrests! Mock your friends about how shitty look their cars with an "empty" back seat!
Sorry for the bad explanation for the "plastic things", english is not my native language! Hope you can understand the whole thing with the help of the images!
The rear headrests give you car a classy limo look, and it feels much comfortable when you are inside. And it is much for your passengers riding on the back seat to lay their heads down.
For the owners of E30 Touring, this mod is pretty much Plug&Play as the tourings come with OEM metal brackets that hold the headrest.
For the sedans/coupes you must get the brackets and install them in place.
OK, here is the DIY.
1. Materials
- Exacto knife
- 2 color matching rear headrests
- 4 plastic covers with their clips to hold them in place
- 4 plastic things that go inside the brackets and adjust the headrest height
- Flat screwdriver
2. Installation
I mentioned the touring has the metal brackets. If you already welded them to your sedan/coupe, you are ready to go too.
Here is a picture of the metal brackets:
All the parts needed:
First you need to remove the rear seat back sections. They are held in place with a pop-up button looking towards the center of the car (left for the right seat and right for the left seat)
Push the pop-up button inside with the flat screwdriver and putt out the seat. It should come out easely.
Now you must have two separated parts of the back seat.
To undo the soft part from the metal plate in the back you should:
Slide the back cover of the seat down, it should come out easy. Once you remove it you should see the metal plate.
The soft part is held to the plate by 6 clips - 4 at each side and 2 at the bottom of the seat, like this:
-------------
O---------O
-------------
O---------O
---O---O---
I found it easier to push one of the lower clips with the screwdriver. With room to reach in and grab the soft part you should unclip the rest of it easier. The rest of the job is to pull UP the seat cover.
You will end up like this:
You can see the position of the clips (the white things inside the metal plate.
Now locate the 2 holes in the foam on the back of the seat. This is where the headrest goes in.
Use some long object to push in the center and mark it on the outside of the seat.
Once done, use the exacto knife to cut an X in the seat, to make a hole.
Use the plastic covers now, put them in place and then put on the inside the plastic white clips(stoppers) to hold them in place. This is a little tricky to put the white plastic ring with so little place for hands, but use imagination.
Finished product:
Now put the other plastic things inside the metal brackets on the plate. They have 2 "pins" that allow only one possible way to put them in. Push all the way down until they clip themselves.
Assembly the seat in the reverse order and if you've done all correctly, you should be able to put the headrest in place, nice and tight.
Do the same with the other seat.
And Voila! You have rearheadrests! Mock your friends about how shitty look their cars with an "empty" back seat!
Sorry for the bad explanation for the "plastic things", english is not my native language! Hope you can understand the whole thing with the help of the images!
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