Hello A2fellows,
a report from the swedish chapter here. We had a bit of inspiration yesterday and wanted to share some impressions from one dreaded back seat problem: the irreversibly locked down rear seat!! I remember seeing on here that the only solution seemed to be to saw the seat to pieces and get a new one, so I was a bit concerned when my own left rear seat locked down on the left side and couldn't be raised from the floor.
This is a crude sketch of how the mechanism looks that release the seat base from the floor. The locking balls can retract into the guiding tap when the latch inside the tap is lifted (all directions refer to the seat in a non-folded position) so the seat-base is released from the floor. The latch has a washer on top (not to be confused with the spring-loaded washer at the bottom), bent to a ring into which a lever is inserted. Pulling on the handle at the back of the seat base (and pressing the backrest down at the same time) lifts the lever and the latch so the locking balls can retract into the guiding tap and the seat is released. Audi presumably didn't want to make a left and a right type ring/washer, so the ring/eyelet is quite large. The lifting arm can therefore escape out of the ring and that happened in my case and is perhaps what causes this problem.
(more pictures in next post- I can't reduce the size, sorry)
/perA2
a report from the swedish chapter here. We had a bit of inspiration yesterday and wanted to share some impressions from one dreaded back seat problem: the irreversibly locked down rear seat!! I remember seeing on here that the only solution seemed to be to saw the seat to pieces and get a new one, so I was a bit concerned when my own left rear seat locked down on the left side and couldn't be raised from the floor.
This is a crude sketch of how the mechanism looks that release the seat base from the floor. The locking balls can retract into the guiding tap when the latch inside the tap is lifted (all directions refer to the seat in a non-folded position) so the seat-base is released from the floor. The latch has a washer on top (not to be confused with the spring-loaded washer at the bottom), bent to a ring into which a lever is inserted. Pulling on the handle at the back of the seat base (and pressing the backrest down at the same time) lifts the lever and the latch so the locking balls can retract into the guiding tap and the seat is released. Audi presumably didn't want to make a left and a right type ring/washer, so the ring/eyelet is quite large. The lifting arm can therefore escape out of the ring and that happened in my case and is perhaps what causes this problem.
(more pictures in next post- I can't reduce the size, sorry)
/perA2
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