Rear seat removal

[Purple&Black]

Okay, I read the silent's FAQ about the headunit stuff and running the wires. So I'm trying to get the bottom of the rear seat up...or out...whatever. And those two stinkin' clips where you put a screwdriver in...

Silent, you make them sound like they work as smooth as automatic flushing toilets... :lol:

I can't for the life of me get that rear seat up...I don't want to break anything.

So I gathered that you put the screwdriver in the slot in the little plastic tab and then pull up (to push the plastic clip down). But damn, I was going to town on that thing and the seat seems to lift up a little, but doesn't unlock...then I pull a little harder and the screwdriver slips out of the plastic slot. Do you have to do both sides at once?

Here's my crude dry-erase board illustration:

http://home.comcast.net/~mcronin29/images/seatclip.jpg

The red ring is the metal part that appears to hold the seat down and the blue part is the plastic tab, with the white spot being the slot in the tab. This is the same thing you were talking about, right? Don't know why they'd change this from 1999 to 2001, but GM has done more idiotic things...

Any tips/suggestions? Thanks...

[King Asoka]

once u have located the clips, put you knee infront of them and push towards the rear of the car. and lift up. with enough force it will come right out.

[sound_xtreme]

in my 1999, i just pull up real hard and reset the clip when i put it back. easiest way for me.

[Purple&Black]

Thanks, sound...

I wasn't thinking that the brute-force method would be a good one for this, but now that the seat is up and I saw how the clip is designed, the brute force method is really the best way on this one...

You don't know how mad I got at those damn clips. I don't like being outsmarted by little bits of plastic. Thanks again... :thumbsup: