Split rear seats in a saloon

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  • Dave Lane
    Owner at Daves Corner
    • 10 December 2019
    • 836

    Split rear seats in a saloon

    First off id like to say its not as easy as it sounds . I believe some Australian cars had this but having never seen one in person ive no idea how they did it .
    Anyway so you decide you want to try this .
    You obviously need the complete rear seat set up including a centre pivot ( this is welded into a coupe so grinder needed ) .
    First problem is the rear shelf in a coupe is longer so you have two options - extend the rear shelf ( its around 3 inches i think ) , this is the easy option .
    OR
    Alter all the pivot points to pull the whole set up back these three inches .
    I chose this as an option , it involves using the original outer pivots cut from a saloon rear seat frame and fitting these on the coupes frames and altering the centre pivot angle and centre hole .
    It can be done - ive proved it but it needs a lot of thought as well as rare parts before you even start .
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  • John A. Ross
    Chief Tinkerer
    • 11 December 2019
    • 4839

    #2
    Originally posted by Dave Lane View Post
    You obviously need the complete rear seat set up including a centre pivot ( this is welded into a coupe so grinder needed ) .

    Aha ! Gary Whitaker is this the centre pivot you are missing ??? did someone cut it out ???
    / John

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    • GaryHnz
      Community Member
      • 3 May 2020
      • 4

      #3
      Rarer parts in NZ - we never had coupes in local-assembly nor as "official" imports. which I guess is why Mazda "invented" the split-fold rear seat - in 1976!

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