This might be posted somewhere here but I couldn't find it. Has anyone done the rear seat delete in the S197? I'm thinking of doing mine and am clueless what it will look like, how difficult it was to remove the seats, if they are removed, etc......HELP!!!

 

Just curious why you want to remove your back seat.

 

Well for one, I don't use it. No one sits back there and it serves no purpose. Two, I saw an option for a rear seat delete. Am I weird or something?

 

You don't want the rear seat delete. The kits I have seen (pix have been posted here in the past) look like someone glued some cheap carpet to plywood and just squashed it inside the car.

There were no weight savings and IMHO the looks were seriously detracted.

Also, the kits were expensive. Again, I'd pass if I were you.

 

This might not be a factor for you, but unless you stored all the components and were able to restore the back seat to original, you'd seriously affect resale possibilities and value.

 

Thats so true. Maybe I should ride around with the seat down for awhile and see how I like that mess. Hmmmm.....thanks for the advice. But seriously, who the he!! can sit in that back seat!! It's bascially a 2-seater to me. If you put a child back there, their feet would be all up in the back of the front seats. UGH!! Not that I have children to ride in there..lol. Childless car for me!!

 

hmm...

i kinda wouldn't mind getting rid of my backseats too.
save weight, maybe get a bigger trunk?

 

Do you reallly need more space then you have when the seats are folded?

Personally I don't think there would be much weight savings if you cover the blank areas under the seats with carpeting.

 

http://mustang-rear-seat-delete.com/...details/ID/28/

Here you go... looks like crap IMHO.

 

Yea, I agree. Unless you have headless/legless friends, for all intents and purposes, it's a two-seater.

 

Meh... i keep thinking about getting a rear seat delete, but they all look horrible and there is always that one time that someone has to cram themselves into my backseat, and no matter how uncomforatable it is back there, at least they dont have to walk

 

Hmmmmm, If your interior is Charcoal/Black, and fit it with a Roll Cage, then your talking!!

 

Looks like a rear seat made out of plywood

Brenda get some mirror caps

 

Mirror caps for what? Yeah, I kinda think that looks like crap too. Maybe I'll just fold 'em down or something. Just an idea. I don't need the space but I have this light graphite seats!

 

I pulled the rear seat out of my Z/28 back in the day when I put in the roll bar. It looked pretty good, but it was a hatch and the carpet ran under the seats and up into the "trunk". I don't think a coupe would look that great. You would save a few pounds, but not many. In all honesty, what's a couple pounds unless your driving the 12 hours at Sebring? The kit shown above looks like crap. I could do the same thing myself for far less dough and a much better effect. But again, I'm not so sure it really buys you anything. There's my .02!

BTW - Where in DE Brenda? I grew up in Fairfax and later moved to Pike Creek. I'm in Chester County PA now.

 

I think I've decided against it already. Thanks guys! You're th best!

 

Grew up in New Castle until 9th grade, then moved to Wilmington near Pike Creek, Heritage Park to be exact. No I'm in lower slower DE and love it! Where'd you go to high school?

 

Bull.

 

mrkabc, after checking out the rear seat delete link, it looks like your guess was right. It really IS just MDF covered in carpet. Yikes. Looks horrible for a daily driven car IMO.

 

Salesianum!