1st!...:welcome:

2nd I had the same problem with my corsa B, what you need to do is you have to hold that button, and give it a bit hard push to the back, and I think that will work

 

I've held the button and pushed like hell, didn't budge. I assumed my girl hands weren't up to task and made use of my other half's manly hands and brute force.... No joy....

We pushed so hard I had to pull the handbrake up another notch to stop the car moving ( adjusted the hand brake cable after that.... adjusted the clutch cable too it was a bit lax and put in super bright bulbs, I'm so pleased with myself )

On the whole I'm enjoying my corsa experience, just got to sort out the seats and maybe put blue lights on the dash at the front and then see what other trouble I can get myself into with the car Corsa power!!!!

 

lol you telling me! I have seen a lot so far, like my car spins when it's rainy

yeah you can remove the seat... but are you able to fold the seat? if soo you can do it easly

 

when the button is pushed down, it disengages partially but not enough to push the seat back, even with a hard push.
Is it possible that i can take out the seat and somehow take it apart to get at the mechanisms to release it fully? and if so any ideas how?

 

just takes a bit if a big shoven to get it back in place, mine did

 

We've tried the shoving, we've really pushed the seat. to the point that I thought it was going to break and we just said to push on as its not working anyways to hell if we break it.
There's something in the mechanism thats just not fully releasing, I think I'm going to have to dismantle it to get at the mechanism, but theres nothing in the haynes manual for taking apart the back of the seat. I have managed to release the bar that anchors the seats in the boot. So I'm able to fold the seat totally flat and have acess to it, but I'm not sure if I start pulling the back off the seat etc will it go back together?

 

make sure you havnt wedged the seat belt in the back obvious answer but it's easily missed.

:thumbs_up:

 

I wish I had the seatbelt wedged.... afraid not.

Darn it anyways, the other half is saying to go to a breakers and get another back seat!!! But I've just shelled out for the Car, insurance, tax and petrol all for the first time ever, don't have a whole lot of funding left to go and buy another back seat when I could possibly fix it.

Thanks to everyone who has replied with suggestions and tips, I appreciate it!

 

try folding it down and pulling it towards the front of the car keep pulling it as you lift it with both button's held in. it should release the mech.

 

This happened on my first Corsa - a 1.0 B Club.

You need to take the seat covering off to get at the latch mechanism in the seat back. You will find it has jumped out of alignment. It costs nothing to fix, except your own time and temper.

and thats how you solve it

 

Hi, I had almost the same problem with the seat this weekend when I was tracing the wiring loom in the boot, unscrewed the interior panels and dropped one of the screws into the mechanism at the base of the seat and just could not move the seat in either direction and saw the screw was completely jamming the seat, took about half an hour to free it.

So, just wondering if one of the clips or seat cover straps may be wedged preventing it from moving

 

This happened on my first Corsa - a 1.0 B Club.

You need to take the seat covering off to get at the latch mechanism in the seat back. You will find it has jumped out of alignment. It costs nothing to fix, except your own time and temper.

 

Yeah! I have it fixed! You sure as hell need the patience of a saint for it, very fiddly! Took the seat out of car for ease of access. Kinda peeled back the seat cover till i could see the foam. Undid the two screws on the back of the seat to get at the mechanism. Put the spring back on the little bolt and reassembled it. And then had great fun getting the long bar back into its home at the top of the seat just underneath the button. A very fiddly job where small girl hands came in useful. Now have my back seat covers on delighted. Thanks guys, ye are great!

 

:thumbs_up: thats allcorsa for you