Rear seat fold-down procedure?

SVT Proto · Mar 3, 2003

Ok i have tryed to fold down the rear seats but the alwayse hit the center console am i doing something wrong?

Slayer420 · Mar 3, 2003

Have you removed the headrests? You have to do that before the seats will fold all the way down. If you are talking about that part of the seat you sit on, it will hit the center console and stay somewhat upright, then the back folds down from there.

Bambino · Mar 3, 2003

All I've done is pull the seat base up, gone to the hatch and removed the headrest, then hit the button, and spun the seat back forward. Flips down like a charm.

GASPowered · Mar 3, 2003

The seat base folds up?

SonicBluSVT 02' · Mar 3, 2003

Yeah I have been wondering this. It appears you take the bottom part out and fold the rear seats foward right? But doesn't the bottom part require unbolting to do this?

drsql · Mar 3, 2003

No, the bottom just flips up. It is on hinges. You can see the hinges on the front of the seat on the carpet. After you flip up the seat and remove the headrests, the back area will be flat, and very large. Unfortunately, you cannot flip up the back seat 60/40, it is all or nothing, which is not great if you are trying to travel with three persons and half of the seat flipped, but it is still servicable.

Louis

BlackSVT · Mar 3, 2003

Originally posted by drsql:
Unfortunately, you cannot flip up the back seat 60/40, it is all or nothing,

I'll have to look when I get to my car tonight, but I'd swear that both the backs and seat bottoms are split 60-40. Maybe the ZX3 is one piece and the SVT is split??

svtspeed · Mar 3, 2003

SVT is split I do it all the time

dpsilversvt · Mar 3, 2003

I can't believe you guys don't know how the seats work and how the rear wiper fluid works. Amazing!

aychseven · Mar 3, 2003

i do it all the time too. works like a champ. although the larger seat hitting the center thing (i refuse to call it a console. the radio/climate control area is a console) rather annoying. especially when carrying large objects and it's pushing up against my seat.

on a side note, anyone know the size of the torx bolt on rear seat? i have a t-30 but it doesn't seem big enough.

Mike-SVT · Mar 3, 2003

um, wrong. You can put one side of the back seat down and leave the other side up. We do it all the time.

garyrich · Mar 3, 2003

Just an FYI - putting down at least the 40% part of the seat makes the subwoffer in the audiophile stereo sound *much* better. with the seat up, the low bass comes through but the mid bass gets sucked up. The hole in the sound makes the sub sound very disconnected from the music

JaySD · Mar 3, 2003

Eh not totally flat but I just pop the two seats down without doing anything else just have to scoot the seats forward while it drops down. I fit a 35" TV in the box in there ;p works fine for me

SonicBluSVT 02' · Mar 3, 2003

I thought that is what you can do with the back seat, just never tried it. I knew how to operate the rear wiper though.

Blue Blur · Mar 3, 2003

Took me a while to figure out that you're supposed to store the headrests in holes on the flipped-up seat. They slip in backwards. That way they don't slide around or get crushed on
the floor.

SVT Proto · Mar 3, 2003

ok, but will the seats that fold down go flat or will they always hit the console? mine seem to always hit the console and yes i take the headrests out.

SlickShoes · Mar 3, 2003

Originally posted by Blue Blur:
Took me a while to figure out that you're supposed to store the headrests in holes on the flipped-up seat. They slip in backwards. That way they don't slide around or get crushed on
the floor.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I didn't know about those holes. Kewl...

xSilverSvtx · Mar 3, 2003

Ha. Ive had the car for a while now and I didnt know it did this my friend has GTI and I was always amazed at how the rear seats folded up, I wanted ours to do that little did I know it does do it. I guess you learn something new every day.

drsql · Mar 4, 2003

Originally posted by svtspeed:
SVT is split I do it all the time

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Well slap me with a very silly fish indeed. It is split (had to walk out to my car to check it out.) Not sure why I thought it was solid, I have used it once to dispose of my Christmas tree (which leaves a smell that rivals new car smell for goodness.)

Didn't know about the holes for the headrests though. I didn't notice them before either.

Louis

GASPowered · Mar 4, 2003

First RLA6, now the whole back seat thing. It's sorta like waiting for work to end, thinking it's 3:55, when it's really 4:55 and your buddy asks, "working late?" And you go (with a Conan O face), "HUH?"

This car just gets better and better.

Rear seat fold-down procedure?

SVT Proto

Slayer420

Bambino

GASPowered

SonicBluSVT 02'

drsql

BlackSVT

svtspeed

dpsilversvt

aychseven

Mike-SVT

garyrich

JaySD

SonicBluSVT 02'

Blue Blur

SVT Proto

SlickShoes

xSilverSvtx

drsql

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