It's really tricky, you need to push back the cushion of the arm rests and you'll see a little metal dowel that connects the armrest to the chair. You need to knock that dowel out and then the armrest will pull away from the chair. Once it's off you'll see where you can tighten. HTH! Cheers, Harry -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of KK AL Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 2:35 AM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: What's the trick to tightening the armrests? We have an 87 Syncro. The armrests are loosening up. According to the Bently shop manual there are caps on the sides of the armrests that pop off for access to the mechanism. There are no such caps and no obvious way to access the mechanism to tighten them. There must be something we are missing because we have had them tightened up in the past by our local VW mechanic. Thank you in advance for any help. |
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