Jet Jockey/A4 Pilot

I know it as been asked before. How to remove the back seat? Well here it is with pictures...

I decided that when I track the car, I would remove the complete rear seat assembly to cut down on the weight (and possibly the front right seat too). I weighed the rear seat assembly and if my digital scale is accurate, it's 75 lbs on the nose +/- 1 lb.

For the purpose of the pictorial and ease of taking pictures, I removed the rear right side. The right and left side removal procedure is the same except that on the right side there is an airbag connection to the seat and that as to be disconnected prior to removing the seat, it is very easy to do, plug and play connector. Also the right side is the longer of the two halves and incorporates the middle seating position which as its own shoulder belt. The belt will have to be unbolted for the car's chassis. I would say it takes about 15 minutes to do the removal once you know how to do it. There are really three things to do, disconnect the airbag, unscrew a Torx and unbolt the shoulder harness. Here we go...

Ironically I will start by the right side to get the airbag connection out of the way. Here you can see the typical yellow airbag connector. This half is the one that is connected to the car and is simply unplugged from the one located in the seat. Once the two are connected together, the grey Styrofoam piece goes over the connector to protect the connection. The wire was also tyraped to the steel wired loop on the right and the connector was tucked under the black leather side bolster.

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Now let's go back to what would be the real first step in the removal procedure. You need to locate this plastic cap that sits on top of a metal bracket located between the two rear seats. Remove the plastic cap.

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Once the plastic cap is removed, you will see a metal locking part that is held in by a Torx. Remove the Torx.

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Once the Torx is removed, pry loose the metal retaining part and pull it off.

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This is what that metal locking/retaining clip looks like.

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Pull the seat upward and it will pop out of the retaining bracket. Once that's done, you can pull the seat either left or right depending on which set you are removing and it will slide out of its secured position.

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Another view of the seat pulled out of its secured position.

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Once the seat cushions are removed, you are left with additional hardware on both sides... This can be left on or removed, I removed it.

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Close up on the additional hardware.

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Once the seats and the additional hardware are removed, this is what left over.

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MB The Body

Great job as always !

Tgr_Clw

Thanks for the info. Bookmarks ----&gt;

psuaudi

do ya have to remove the rear seats to remove the lower d pillar trim shown in the 1st pic above?

Avantéix

a tripod &amp; photoshop w/ a crash course on how to use it...

psuaudi

oooo burn!

ReTodd

According to Schroth, there is no way to do it since the seat belt mounting point is attached to the seat rather than the floor.

Jet Jockey/A4 Pilot

I'm posting about the rear seat and you want to know about my driver's seat?

ReTodd

Yes, it looked like you had a harness and am looking for ways to install it in a B6.