My 55 doesnt have the switch, but it is a 2006 55 plate car

OK, I'm sure I must be wrong.

I have an 04 plate car, but has a 3 point belt in the middle, so must be one of the earliest.. it can't be the optional 3 point centre belt because i don't have a centre head rest (It's my understanding the earlier optional 3 point centre belt was provided with a 3rd headrest?)

anyways.. I know the car tells me if the seat isn't in place.. but I'd swear blind i don't have the switch.

can't check cuz the cars in the shop.. but spent ages playing with the rubber stop to try and stop a rattle and I'm sure I never saw that switch!?!?! And I recon I'd a noticed it cuz my last Fabia def didn't have it.

Quite a while i ago i posted that my 2006 vRS didn't advise me when the rear seats weren't properly in position. When the rear seats are down a little seat light should be displayed between the temp gauge and fuel gauge on the dash but mine didn't do this.

Well having had the rear seats down on both our cars today to fit boot nets i found out why mine doesn't work.

It appears as though the switch which is used to tell when the seats are down or not isn't even fitted to my car.

I've attached two pictures to try and show what i mean.

The first is of our 2005 vRS and you can see the black switch on top of the actual catch the the seat latches onto.

The second is of the same latch in our 2006 vRS and as you can clearly see the switch isn't there.

Now what i would like to know is could any of you 06, 56 & 07 reg Fabia owners.... Especially vRS's check to see if your car has the switch fitted to the catch behind the drivers side rear seat. I just want to know if it's just mine that hasn't had it fitted or whether they stopped fitting it to all / certain fabias after a certain date etc....

Cheers

Dave.

Hello,

I have a (June) 2005 Fabia VRS RHDrive and have a switch on the rear off-side seat, but none on the near-side rear seat.

Ian. 22/03/2009