I spent yesterday afternoon doing the headrest fix. After reviewing YouTube, I felt confident that I understood the process and the job wasn't tough. It took about an hour and half to do the passenger seat and after the learning curve, a bit less than an hour to do the drivers seat.

I didn't cut the sheave in the middle and use heat shrink as the TSB suggests. Rather I cut the sheave immediately above the metal fitting that fits into the motor. Using a drifting tool to remove the waste sheave, (which was a little longer than the recommended 12mm, but not by much) I then re-fitted the metal fitting to the end of the shortened sheave and reassembled the seat. There is no risk of heat shrink not holding so, hopefully, the repair won't fail.

I suspect it will take me longer to clean up all the fine dust that was released by stripping the leather seat cover back than it did to affect the repair!

 

Well Done Brian! I did almost exactly the same as you last year with my passenger seat and it has worked perfectly ever since.

One day...we'll get these cars right!! HaHa!

Take care