After removing my seats to fit a new instrument panel to my '71 Plus 2S I used one of the rear seat squabs to sit on to access the wiring. When I went to fit the squab to the rear seat I noticed that it would not allow me to push it all the way back to meet the backrest. Further inspection revealed I had collapsed the front of the squab so that it no longer met the upper portion of the squab at a 90 degree angle but rather at an acute angle that prevented the squab from moving rearward to meet the backrest. I have included a couple of pictures comparing the squabs so you can see that one is now shaped like a "J" rather than an "L" like to undamaged one.
My question for the forum is how do I return the damaged squab to its original shape? If the squab is composed of two wooden boards covered in vinyl, how can I get the front board to relax into a 90 degree angle with the top board? Would the application of a heat gun to the underside of the front board help it to relax and assume its former shape?
Lee