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BAN SUVS 09-15-04 03:13 PM

Silly n00b question..........
 
Ok, everyone talks about the storage area behind teh front seats. Well I have a back seat behind my seats but I do notice a silver handle in the center on the bottom. Does it do anything or is there any way to pull it to get up the back seats??? :confused: Silly noob wants to know. :p:

Felgar 09-15-04 03:19 PM

Heh... I was wondering about that lever too. You can pull it out to release the seat back at which point you can fold the seat back down onto the seat bench. The reason it spins is because you can only pull it if it's spun in the right direction. So first give it a pull and if it doesn't come then turn the handle 90 degrees and try again. Also it might be fairly siezed so it may help to try wiggling the seat back while pulling the knob.

AFAIK that's all the handle does. I haven't attempted to take the seat bottom out so I'm not sure how you'd go about doing that. If you figure it out let me know! :)

anthrax 09-15-04 03:49 PM

The bins are where the back seat used to be.

When The RX-7 was designed the laws in Japan stated that it had to have a back seat.

When the cars were tested for the US market the it failed crash testing so they took out the back seat and put in the storage bins.

You guys have back seats not storage bins

BAN SUVS 09-15-04 04:14 PM

So does this mean I have a canadian model if I have a back seat? :confused:

jays83gsl 09-15-04 04:16 PM

Do you have headlight washer things?

BAN SUVS 09-15-04 04:39 PM

no but I have some button down by my shifter to pop up my headlights for no reason. :confused:

IanS 09-15-04 04:48 PM

The button that pops up your headlights id for when it is winter time. That way you can leave your headlights up and not worry about them freezing shut and burning out your headlight motor.

BAN SUVS 09-15-04 07:24 PM

oh, right on then. So then some U.S. models did have back seats then? The way everyone talks around here is that they have storage spaces behind thier seats and not useless back seats. :p:

jays83gsl 09-15-04 07:37 PM

Most of us DO have the storage bins. Some backseat cars have been imported.

BAN SUVS 09-15-04 07:59 PM

My car must be special then. :p: :D

kleinke 09-15-04 08:33 PM

Dealers could put the back seats in new cars, and you could buy aftermarket back seats. The real reason they had them in Japan was marketing. The reason they did not have them in the US was again marketing.


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