As I do a lot of folding down/rising it up of my Estate rear seats, I found their system really too complicate (actually, the only major fault I found on this car).

I really miss my wife's Yaris ultra-simple system: one lever on top of the back of the seat does it all.

 

The most annoying part is removing all the headrests (and putting them somewhere, usually in the rear footwells taking dirt).

 

Has anyone found a fix to this?

 

Cheers.

Edited 10 August, 201411 yr by duro

Leave the useless things in the garage. I vaguely recall some consumer group tested head restraints and apart from one or two exceptions, they were useless, even dangerous. Apart from obscuring rear vision, they are good at that.

While the estate system is not ideal, the Yeti seats were a total no no for me. Big clumpy lumps which took up loads of space when folded. Spoilt the car for my use. (leaving them out wasn't an option).

Rear head restraints are only effective when adjusted to the correct height for the person sitting in that seat (the same applies to the front seats).  How many rear seat passengers bother to adjust the head restraint?

 

If you remove the rear head restraints and a rear seat passenger suffered a whip lash accident in a collision would the insurance company use the lack of head restraint to reduce the pay out to that passenger? 

Leaving the headrests at home could be a solution – on a daily basis. Simple, rough but still a good idea.

 

Sigh! One more thing to clog the garage!

Am I missing something here? The seats are dead easy to fold.

 

OK, so the headrests need lowering to their lowest setting, but once done then you've no need to touch them again. I don't need to remove mine, I can only assume you have the front seats set really far back?

 

Then all is required is a pull of one lever, one for each part of the 60:40 split, takes seconds?

If you want it 100% flat though (by lifting up the back bench), they need to come out to fit in the gap that is left. I presume this is what Duro wants to do??

Mmmm. The rear seat on mine will not fold properly if the head restraint is in situ. To much stuff in the seat pockets? possibly. Me a bit too tubby, definitely.

I don't find the actual folding difficult, and the fact I can remove the seat to accommodate extra long stuff is nice. Comes in useful when shipping home my wine stocks to get the weight as far forward as possible.