How to disassemble front seat headrests ?

[CALEB]

My Insignia A has active headrests on front seats. I decided to replace the cloth interior with leather. I know how to remove these headrests, it's already done, but now I need to disassemble these, so the clotch could be replaced with leather.

The front part of the headrest moves a bit when pulling, but it won't come off. I don't want to break anything. Any ideas ?

Here is an illustration of my problem:

[.R.B.H.]

Ive tried several and each time Ive broken the ratchet part.

Your quicker and easier changing the full headrest

[CALEB]

Changing the headrest is not an option, because I want to add custom leather to the interior, including the headrests. I have already bought the leather (wasn't cheap) and some parts of the interior are already done.
There are no headrests with such leather in existence, so I need to dismantle my headrests for this.

Can you describe what's inside and where is the part you've broken. What exactly did you do when disassembling ? What made the part broke ?

[.R.B.H.]

Ok...

[asktoby]

Did you get anywhere with this? I'm also interested in disassembling the headrest and any info would be helpful

[CALEB]

My headrests were taken apart by the guy who did my leather interior. Of course they became broken a bit in the process, so it's possible to pull them apart by hand now. But since they stay together, it's not a big deal. The mechanism that springs them in case of an accident is untouched.

But I also got the info how to take the headrests apart normally - you have to remove the back part of the seat cover, so you can access the seat interior, then there's a steel pulling cable (not sure how to call it) that goes into the headrest. Pulling it should release the headrest mechanism.
I haven't tried this myself though, because I don't need to, since the mechanism is loose a bit now, like I mentioned.