This is hopefully not off-topic.

I recently re-acquired a 2001 Montero XLS. I have a number of cosmetic issues to fix on this vehicle. one of which is the passenger side mid-row seat is stuck in the upright position. To be specific, the seat-back will fold-forward but the bottom half will not release from the floor to tumble forward.

This is a particularly hard to figure out problem as the middle seats are designed so that they are fairly flush to the floor & all the cables and or levers that release the seat are all incased in the seat bottom.

I'm guessing there is some cable from the release handle on the side of the seat to the latch/s holding it down near the rear but access to this is not easy to determine.

Does anyone on the forum have any suggestions?