Removing and installing rear seat backrest

Special tools and workshop equipment required

Torque wrench -V.A.G 1331

Removing

• Remove bench seat → Chapter.
• Remove rear right belt buckle with belt end fitting → Chapter.

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• Pull cover -1- off centre mount -2-.

Variant

• Separate Bowden cable for backrest release mechanism on left and right → Chapter.
• Remove carrier for centre luggage compartment floor lining → Chapter.

Continued for all vehicles

For reasons of clarity, the left rear seat backrest (1/3) is not shown.

• Remove bolt -2-.
• Equipment version with through-loading aperture: Open lid for through-loading aperture and fold it down.
• Fold up locking bar -1- at rear -arrow A-, detach it at front from centre mount -arrow B- and remove it.

For reasons of clarity, the left rear seat backrest (1/3) is not shown.

• Lift rear seat backrest -2- out of centre mount -3- and pull it towards centre of vehicle out of outer mountings -1--arrows-.
• Remove rear bench seat from vehicle.

Installing

• Push rear seat backrest -2- in vertical position onto outer support pin -1-.
• Position rear seat backrest -2- in centre mount -3-.

Further installation is performed in the reverse order of removal.

Specified torques