Rear Bench Seat

tourangang

tourangang

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Hi All, this is my first post, so hopefully its not too much of a stupid question.

Im trying to persuide my Wife to swap her Vauxhall Meriva for a A2, I think ive cracked it, but the one thing thats outstanding is the A2's 4 seats,

Most of the A2's i have looked at only have 2 rear seats. It was an option i think. Is it possible to swap the rear seats for a bench seat if i were to source one?

or should i change the missus!!!

Thanks for your help

John
 
Hi tourangang, welcome to the A2oc.
The bench seat was an option as you thought. I'm not aware of any Club members doing the conversion but it should be possible. A2's in breakers yards are quite rare so sourcing second hand A2 parts is difficult. You should first check the Dealer price of the seat, centre headrest and belt as the cost may put you off. Much better to buy a car with the seat already fitted
Keep the wife - good ones are even harder to come by than A2's with bench seats

Cheers Spike
 
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Does she really need 5 seats?

How often?

Does she realsize the benefot of the hidden boot floor and deep rear footwells and removable rear seats?

I've carried a Zanussi washing machine in my 1.2 TDI A2 wityh no difficulty!

A German car magazine found they could fit more beer crates in an A2 that the same year VW Golf 5 seater.

I bought the A2 over a Seat Ibiza 130 TDI / Audi A3 because the boot was bigger! Able to carry my 2x12 Valve amp and heavy duty trolly and still have room for 4 adults.
 
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Funnily enough I have a 4 seater and looked at a friends new 5 seater only this afternoon. The front of the rear bench hinges in 2 places where the pair of rear seats hinge in 4. Also the handle to lift the base of the rear bench is in the centre of the car. For the 2 rear seats there is a handle in the centre of each seat.

The question is wether the floor has all the same anchor points.

What colour is your interior? my friend MAY be interested in swapping his rear bench for a pair of rear seats - his interior is light grey material I believe (1.4 TDi Sport) and he lives in Sheffield.
 
When we were looking to buy our A2 we found the colour (Grey), engine (TDI), trim (SE) and then found out it had the optional bench seat; which we did not want; you see we needed the split folding option the single seats give you....

I asked just this question can thay be changed and after about an hour the dealer got back to me with this answer "NO but I have found you another A2"

Thing is, they have different mounting/locking points for the seats (Isn't the third seatbelt connected to the seat and not the car?) and they are not fitted; the holes are there but the inserts are not and the dealership could not fit them - some special tool!

Good luck in what you choose to do.
 
ecoangel said:
Does she really need 5 seats?

How often?

Does she realsize the benefot of the hidden boot floor and deep rear footwells and removable rear seats?
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The bench seat model still has the hidden boot floor (on SE models anyway), deep rear footwells and removable rear seat....
 
Ricardo said:
Funnily enough I have a 4 seater and looked at a friends new 5 seater only this afternoon. The front of the rear bench hinges in 2 places where the pair of rear seats hinge in 4. Also the handle to lift the base of the rear bench is in the centre of the car. For the 2 rear seats there is a handle in the centre of each seat.

The question is wether the floor has all the same anchor points.

What colour is your interior? my friend MAY be interested in swapping his rear bench for a pair of rear seats - his interior is light grey material I believe (1.4 TDi Sport) and he lives in Sheffield.
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Another Sheffielder with an A2. get him as a member on here :)
 
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