TechnoGranola
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With respect to the installing the seat yourself, it's happened to me twice where I've taken my car to the dealer and get there to pick it up and my seat is uninstalled and put into my cargo area. I typically pull my seats out before my vehicles go the dealer, but DH had taken it in and forgot/chose not to.
Once they needed to move the front seat further back to do something under the driver's side dash so popped the seat out (better than ramming the front seat into it so it worked out ) and another time they were replacing the leather on the seat bottom under the seat, which we thought was being done another time so DH didn't think to remove our car seats, but the parts arrived that day so they went ahead and finished the work.
So, I'm glad you're testing out if you can repeat the install because you just never know when you might need to do it and it's just you, your vehicle and the seats!
Once they needed to move the front seat further back to do something under the driver's side dash so popped the seat out (better than ramming the front seat into it so it worked out ) and another time they were replacing the leather on the seat bottom under the seat, which we thought was being done another time so DH didn't think to remove our car seats, but the parts arrived that day so they went ahead and finished the work.
So, I'm glad you're testing out if you can repeat the install because you just never know when you might need to do it and it's just you, your vehicle and the seats!