Rear seats folding - base

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glbell

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• Apr 19, 2013

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HI

Hopefully a quick question

do the base of the rear seats in a Freelander 1 lift up and hinge/fold forwards at 90 degrees.

I can get the back part of the rear seats folding down (using the latch in the boot) but i dont have a manual so do the bases fold forwards ??

If so how ?

thanks a lot
Graeme.

 

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td4van

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• Apr 19, 2013

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Hi on a Freelander 1 then you fold the rear upright part of the seat and then the whole lot folds forward and is latched in the vertical position

 

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waynesworld

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• Apr 20, 2013

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glbell said:

HI

Hopefully a quick question

do the base of the rear seats in a Freelander 1 lift up and hinge/fold forwards at 90 degrees.

I can get the back part of the rear seats folding down (using the latch in the boot) but i dont have a manual so do the bases fold forwards ??

If so how ?

thanks a lot
Graeme.

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Once you've got the back laying flat, keep tipping it forward. It's a multi position hinge in the side of the seat, so the back has to be flat before the base will tip forward.

To get the seat back up, there's a lever underneath the base which you have to pull before the seat will move. There's also a known problem where the back won't go right up again (it locks out). Remove the plastic cover on the inside edge of the seat and marinate well with a lot of WD40 and the levers inside will eventually work.

 

teddywood1

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• Apr 20, 2013

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also if the seats are sitting on somthing like the seat belt you will not be able to put them back into position properly.

 

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Michael Graber

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• Jul 25, 2017

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Same problem here the smaller of the back seats will fold up and forward but the larger side is stuck.

I can see a bent slide on the bottom inside of the larger back seat, it appears that a post is suppose to follow the slide and pull to unlock that side of the back seat.

Hot Damn, I figured it out, what a fella had to do was get some bailing wire hook it to the slide and fold and pull. Bailing Wire and Duct Tape can fix everything from John Deere to Landy!

 

Last edited: Jul 25, 2017