Installing and removing the standard rear bench seat and seat/bunk combination
WARNING Risk of accident and injury as a result of rear bench seat not being engaged
If the rear bench seat is not engaged, it may be flung around during travel.
Always make sure that the rear bench seat is engaged as described.
To ensure that the rear bench seat can securely engage, keep the seat guide rails and anchorages in the vehicle floor free of dirt and foreign objects.
If the indicator tab of the seat anchorage is not retracted into the seat leg, the seat is not correctly engaged. Engage the seat again.
Removing the rear bench seat
In vehicles with a seat rail system, carry out the release, removal and subsequent reinstallation of the rear bench seat at the marked basic position only More.
Fold release handle
for rear seat anchorage up.
Fold the rear bench seat forwards at the upper edge of the seat backrest.
Pull release handle
for front seat legs up.
Grasp the rear bench seat by the lower edge of the seat cushion.
Fold the rear bench seat forwards and remove it from seat anchorages
.
Installing the rear bench seat
You can install the rear bench seats in the face-to-face position only if the vehicle floor is fitted with four seat anchorages on the first rear seat row or with a seat rail system.
Grasp the rear bench seat by the lower edge of the seat cushion.
Insert the rear bench seat into the front seat anchorages
from above at the front and allow it to engage.
Make sure that release handles
for the front seat legs are folded down in the direction of the floor of the vehicle.
Fold the rear bench seat back into the seat position.
Press release handle
for rear seat anchorage downwards until indicator tabs
have fully retracted into the rear seat anchorages.
The rear seat legs of the rear bench seat are correctly engaged when the seat legs engage audibly and indicator tabs on the seat legs are no longer visible and have fully retracted into the seat legs.