rear seat removal questions!

snellgrove · Post by **snellgrove** » July 1st, 2005, 1:42 pm

Hi guys.. this is prob real easy and stupid of me for asking

but I figured its best to ask anyway, after searching...

but how do you remove the rear seats from an MX-3?

I've got a track day coming up on monday

and wanna shed a bit of weight (might as well, and it looks cool

)

I've managed to get the top-half of the rear seat out, no probs.. just 4 bolts

but the lower half, I dunno! theres large bolts holding the seat-belt buckles in, is it these that need un-doing? do they hold the rear seat in place too?

I dont wanna bust anything, so figured i'd ask first... im sure theres plenty of people who've done it

ccreech · Post by **ccreech** » July 1st, 2005, 1:46 pm

under the front edge of the seat...about inbetween your knees if you were sitting in the seat...there is a little plastic quick release lever. There is one on each side. Once those are popped loose just thread the seatbelts back through the holes carefully so that you don't tear your seat up. Done

exdream_mx3 · Post by **exdream_mx3** » July 1st, 2005, 2:01 pm

mine just had like pop clips that the seat pops down into???

snellgrove · Post by **snellgrove** » July 1st, 2005, 2:05 pm

aha, I see.. how did I miss those,

will give it a go, cheers!

snellgrove · Post by **snellgrove** » July 1st, 2005, 3:06 pm

done!

cheers for the pointers there, just pull upwards and (after a bit of persuasion) they popped off (quite a pop too! quite a sturdy thing they're stuck too)

the bottom section aint heavy at all, but i removed it anyway lol

good picture that, guessing its from the online service manual thing on this site, - i looked through that, but couldn't find an interior or seat section or whatever..

ccreech · Post by **ccreech** » July 1st, 2005, 3:16 pm

yeah it is from the workshop manual S pages...take a closer look with it out...it should be a quick release type switch. It shouldn't have poped like that. It works kinda like a seat-belt

snellgrove · Post by **snellgrove** » July 1st, 2005, 9:03 pm

mine must be the same as exdream_mx3's car, as like says (and displayed in page 76 of the S / body manual, it has these white pop clip things

atlantamx3 · Post by **atlantamx3** » July 2nd, 2005, 12:54 am

It really shouldnt "POP" if you do it right.

You slide the slider things towards the outside of the car and it releases the seat.

No "POP" at all.

exdream_mx3 · Post by **exdream_mx3** » July 2nd, 2005, 1:09 am

mine as i recall has no release for it??? It just has pop clips it pushes into!!!

snellgrove · Post by **snellgrove** » July 2nd, 2005, 11:00 am

exdream_mx3 wrote:mine as i recall has no release for it??? It just has pop clips it pushes into!!!

yup, couldn't find any slider thing on mine..

you can see one of the releases, bottom right of the pic there, the white thing...

the seat litereally just pops out of that!