CLK seats sticking

We have a wonderful CLK 200 (2005), however the front seats are very
difficult to open to get into the back seats. The lever to open them
does not appaear to relese the catch unless you put all your weight
onto the fornt seat to push it down at the same time as pulling up the
lever. Given is it my kids who use the back and they are not strong
enough to do this proceedure, it is very annoying. Any ideas from
anyone as to who to solve this ?
Many thanks.

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donmc wrote:
> We have a wonderful CLK 200 (2005), however the front seats are very
> difficult to open to get into the back seats. The lever to open them
> does not appaear to relese the catch unless you put all your weight
> onto the fornt seat to push it down at the same time as pulling up the
> lever. Given is it my kids who use the back and they are not strong
> enough to do this proceedure, it is very annoying. Any ideas from
> anyone as to who to solve this ?
> Many thanks.

Are the seats electrical or mechanical? i.e. are
they driven by small motors
underneath, with switches on the doors or elsewhere??

Do you have a manual? If not, maybe you could
download it from

http://www.mbusa.com/index.do

Good luck!