Ford Galaxy - How to swap the Booster / Kiddie Seat to the other side (MK2)

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I can confirm it's as easy as pie to do.  All you do is swap the seat back and seat bottoms over from the respective mechanisms. No messing with seatbelt anchorages or anything.  About a 25 minute job.

Unfortunately, if you just swap the seatbelt anchors, the seat lifting lever will be in the wrong place to access it from the open door. 

Tools you need are:
Cross head screwdriver
Star-drive tools (3 different sizes needed)
Snipe-nose pliers
Rubber Gloves and a clothes peg.

Method:
Undo the cross head screws from the front of the plastic "Skirt trim"
Flip out the round hole covers from the same skirts and remove the small star-drive bolt
Watch out for the yellow "Trim fixing" half way down the skirt - carefully insert your snipe-nose pliers and squash to remove this pesky thing from the back
Clip off the skirt.


Next, remove the 4 x large star-drive bolts (2 each side) that hold the seat-back to the metal hinge area of the mechanism (Usually very tight and threadlocked in!)

Flip the seat over and remove the 4 x brass colour star-drive bolts that hold the seat pad to the metal frame (In the 4 corners)

That's it, you've removed all the upholstery.

Next, you need to put the rubber gloves on and place the clothes peg on your nose before you attempt to prise out all the decayed McDonalds, sweets, fruit, human and dog hair and general rubbish that accumulates within. 

Swap over the mechanism (Or upholstery) from the other side's seat and assembly is the reverse.

All good and works / fits a treat.

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