Can I remove my rear seat on the 97' corolla?

[kevmac]

I want to remove the rear seat on my 97' corolla 4 door. My dog peed on it. It was the first inappropriate item left behind in the car since I bought it. I blew up a coke in July at 100+ all over the inside one time, but the coke did not smell like pee.

I want to remove the rear seat and pressure spray it at the car wash like others have hear.

Any ideas how to remove it. I recall that it is not easy.

[falnfenix]

does the rear seat fold down?

[Piloter]

Yeah, it'll come out...

I'm going from memory after a night of work here so I may be a little logy and unclear, but you can pull up/out the bottom part, it just has a couple catches. Once you get that cushion out in a single piece, the seatbacks and side bolsters are bolted down in fairly obvious ways.

[darcsyde]

yeah pull the cushion off and the rest bolt soff

[dakmor]

And afterwards you can then get into your trunk, incase you ever get that locked and can't open it from the outside...

[Piloter]

Actually, I once had to do that in reverse...locked my keys in the running car, but had left the trunk the tiniest bit open so I could get in and retrieve things later. (There was a reason, but it was a very stupid one that I can't recall.) Wound up having to climb into the trunk, exploit the broken fold-lockout mechanism on one side to get one of the back seats to fold down and out of my way, worm my way from there into the back seat, and from there (for sheer perversity's sake) the rest of the way into the front.

This is not so easy when you're 6' 6".

Still, an interesting workout.

[PhatRoyale]

Originally Posted by Piloter

This is not so easy when you're 6' 6".

WoW. Don't you have any head or legroom issues? I mean the AE102 is a small car afterall.

[Piloter]

Amazingly, no. With the seat all the way back on the rails and two clicks leaned back, my knees are about an inch from the dash and the very top of my head is about an inch and a half from the roof. The AE92 seat does sit a little lower than the AE102 seat used to, though, I used to only have about a half-inch of clearance. My sight line isn't the best for anything vertical, as you can imagine...I took off the sun visor and got a few more degrees of visibility, but that's about all I can do.

This, incidentally, is why I hate modern car design with the tiny greenhouses and window areas. Visibility is crucial for me, and when the top of the windshield frame of, say, a Z05 Vette comes to the top of my glasses, I don't fit so good inside. Leaning back (the wigger way) isn't an option because I'm still pretty nearsighted even WITH glasses...and don't even talk to me about old Supras. To even sit up straight to the point where I could comfortably work with a 2nd gen, I literally had to open the sunroof and use that space. RX-8? Disaster. Liberty? Disaster. Lucerne? Disaster. Sebring? Disaster. (Although the convertible was workable.) Focus ZX3? Disaster. MR2-S? Yes, but the windshield bar came to the top of my forehead with the top down. I could live with that.

I do fit, barely, in an 07 Boxster, but it's more like a cocoon than a car.

No, the AE102 actually has a lot of room for a guy like me. I can put her on cruise and be able to (with a little ingenuity) straighten my legs completely in that footwell. Yes, the window proportions are more on the scale of Popemobile than pimpmobile, but at least I can see.

[PhatRoyale]

amazing haha

[kevmac]

o.k., I finally got around to it. It was a piece of cake. The bottom pulls out with no tools, only two snaps on the bottom. The top has three bolts at the bottom.

The seats seem to clean easy. They don't look new but they did clean up well. I can faintly smell the urine when I stick my nose up against the seat but it isn't bad. the pine sol I used is very noticeable which I guess is a good thing.

[Piloter]

Try some Febreze...that stuff even kills the smell of gasoline.