Sticking rear seat armrest

[Kdicke1023]

Anyone with the G80 ultimate have a problem with the center armrest getting stuck and won’t come down. If anyone has any remedies please let me know. Thanks

 

[Don88]

Anyone with the G80 ultimate have a problem with the center armrest getting stuck and won’t come down. If anyone has any remedies please let me know. Thanks

Does the release handle seem to let go when you pull on the handle? I noted if you try to lower the arm without using the access handle, the lock doesn't release.

 

[Jake Bell]

Having the same issue.

 

[Chad86tsi]

are you just puling on the latch, or unlatching and then pulling? It works like a door in a house: If you pull really hard on the handle, then try to unlatch, the pulling pressure adds friction to the latch mechanism and binds it up. If you operate the latch and then pull, it's easy.

The arm rest is the same. I find if I pull with my finger tips on the latch itself, and use my thumb to push back on the arm rest assembly to prevent the arm rest from moving forward (preventing it from binding the latch mechanism), then it pops right out easily and quickly. If I just pull hard on the latch, it binds 100% of the time.

 

[Jake Bell]

No that’s not it. You can tell - due to the lack of any resistance or sound whatsoever - that the linkage attached to the handle has become disconnected, therefor the handle is now useless.

 

[Chad86tsi]

No that’s not it. You can tell - due to the lack of any resistance or sound whatsoever - that the linkage attached to the handle has become disconnected, therefor the handle is now useless.

That sucks. I watched my younger kids struggle with mine, that's how I discovered the binding issue. They'd yank hard on it over and over because it wasn't opening for them. I wonder if this design feature (flaw) would lead to breakage eventually.