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.

 

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.

 

The seat base folds up?

 

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?

 

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

 

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

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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??

 

SVT is split I do it all the time

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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...

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

Originally posted by drsql:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">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.) ...</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I thought drsql originally meant the seat BOTTOM was solid and flipping it forward was an all-or-nothing proposition. Assuming that's true, I'm guessing you could still flip down half of the rear seat and carry a rear-seat passenger, but the seat back just wouldn't fold nearly as flat?

Guess I've got rear-seat envy... My 'Tour's seat bottom doesn't flip forward. Since the SVT's rear seats are sculpted kind of like mini-buckets, they can't fold further forward than about 30° to horizontal. I suppose that's my only complaint about the car.

 

in a zx3 the seat bottom is one piece. it folds up and forward. the seat back is 2 pieces they fold down and forward. there is no headrest to wory about. it does not go completly flat but flat enough.

 

Originally posted by SVT Proto:
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.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">AFAIK, the seat bottom hits the console when folded. Specifically, the middle-passenger portion of the 60% part presses up against the back of the console when it is flipped forward.

My car is at the shop for it's RLA6 update or I'd check it again.

 

So how do you start this thing? I'm still at the dealer.....

By the way I just ditched the rear seat headrests altogether. Now I can actually see out the rear view mirror.

 

Didn't your sales guy walk you through all the features?

You should have signed a sheet stating that they walked you thru everything.

 

Originally posted by JP:
So how do you start this thing? I'm still at the dealer.....

By the way I just ditched the rear seat headrests altogether. Now I can actually see out the rear view mirror.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I also took all the rear head rests out. They get it the way.