ok guys, could someone please tell me how to remove the front seats from a 72 type 3? they slide fowards and backwards but they dont just slide out like kombi ones. how do i get the damn things out!?

There's a little spring clip, on the inside runner, stops them going forward all the way, push that down, and the seats will slide forward over them, and out. Push with something other than your finger, they might bite!

If they are the same as an early model....

Push the as far forward as you can. Then, get underneath from the front. If I remember right (bear with me) there is a tab to push down on the runner on the tunnel side of the seat. Once pushed down, slide the seat further forward and it should come off.

Let me know if this helps you out.

Cheers!

[ Edited on 15-11-2005 by Gibbo ]

The early seats have a small square tab sticking out on the inside. I always get this caught on the carpet. It may be stopping you from being able to slide the seat all the way forward and out. Secondly, it will rip up the carpet.

If they are the late model seats, with a central support, they slide out backwards. There is a spring mounted tab under the centre of the seat which you have to push down to slide the seat out.

thanks guys, that was driving me nuts. it is a tab on the top of the rail on the inner rail, slides out foward. cheers

Yeah, same as my seats.. and watch the little plastic runner things... they're usually broken and a bastard to make them stay on when you put the seats back in... lol

thanks, only the back edge is bkoken on myne so hopefully they will stay in place.