...is it only available as an option on the SE, but not on the higher models? The brochure seems to suggest so. Am in process of optioning a scout & thought this would be a nice option.

 

Thanks...

According to the brochure in Luxembourg it's only available on the Ambition and Elegance trim not the L&K, RS or Scout. In Germany it only seems to be available for the Active and Greenline trim, not for Elegance, L&K, etc.

 

It's not available for sports-seats and leather.

Only with the SE not the Elegance which has Alcantara seats that cannot fold flat, the seat and backrest side bolsters would get rather squashed. I wanted them on my Elegance but no go.

Only with the SE not the Elegance which has Alcantara seats that cannot fold flat, the seat and backrest side bolsters would get rather squashed. I wanted them on my Elegance but no go.

I wondered why our Elegance didnt have that feature... thanks!

Same with the MK7 Golf.....................if you have Sports seats then a no.no.................bugger...........

Only with the SE not the Elegance which has Alcantara seats that cannot fold flat...

 

Is alcantara standard on the Elegance in the UK? Here in Finland it was over a 1500€ extra!

 

the seat and backrest side bolsters would get rather squashed. I wanted them on my Elegance but no go.

 That's interesting, since the leather seat on our current Volvo folds flat and the leather seems just fine regardless.

Is alcantara standard on the Elegance in the UK? Here in Finland it was over a 1500€ extra!

There also seems to be a difference in Luxembourg as you get the folded seat with the elegance, yet not in the UK. I think there are still different options.

That's interesting, since the leather seat on our current Volvo folds flat and the leather seems just fine regardless.

To survive in Scandinavia, cows have to be more flexible, or just tougher skin...I'll get my coat

Alcantara is standard on Elegance and L&K in the UK. When I looked at the SE fold down seat it hinged at a higher point in the backrest so allowing the seat to fold. On the Alcantara seats, due to their design that point of hinge would not work. I can only assume  that that is the reason they cannot fold flat.

It was the same in my previous Passat with the SEL you got Alcantara seats and no fold down, on the lower spec car you have 'standard' seats and one could fold down.

 

It is not the covering that is the problem it is the design, Volvo, as in my V70T had full leather and a fold down but was more of a standard shape than the Alcantara seats.

 

Is alcantara standard on the Elegance in the UK? Here in Finland it was over a 1500€ extra!

 

 

I Guess your Elegance is equipped with standard seats so a fold down standard seat is a normal 'option'.....................

 

It seems that every country has a different build content and so different 'options'

 

The only 4wd we can get is with a diesel, if we could get 4wd with a petrol I would have ordered that.............

Interesting to revisit this issue, I had a bit of a "discussion" with my dealer and through them Skoda over Skoda's completely incompetent/ misleading advertising of this feature at the time that I ordered my car. That was back in September 2013 and at that time the Skoda website showed very clearly an Elegance spec car with the folding passenger seat as standard, no mention of it being an optional extra or only available on certain models, it was one of the website bits where you could move around an image of the car and it showed you what features were included in the car in each different specification. And believe me that website showed that feature as 100% standard on the Elegance Estate models. And this allegedly being the 21st century most of us here will use the internet as part of our decision making process when we are thinking of buying a new car. That feature mattered to me and I ordered my car firmly believing that this was part of the standard specification only to find when the car arrived that it most definitely was not there!

Still, after a bit more discussion Skoda paid me a token amount of compensation for their misleading website information, which was then changed to highlight that it was actually an extra cost feature only available on certain models. They never could explain how the Elegance model in the photographs, albeit left hand drive, with clearly the same sort of seat design and materials as my own car could have a folding seat, yet somehow Skoda claimed that it would have damaged the alcantara material if it did fold thus in a UK spec Elegance!

To make matters worse, the front passenger seat in my car barely folds forward at all, virtually every other car that I've had you could fold the seat quite far forwards to get any long loads into the car, you can fold it back quite a bit, but it just won't fold the seat much off of vertical at all going forwards. All in all pretty poor design given how much fuss they made about the elusive folding passenger seats at the time, it doesn't matter to me if my seats cannot go completely flat but if I can fold them forwards even a foot above that, that in itself would be very handy and Alcantara or not, I can't see why this should be impossible to do in a modern Estate car. Whatever spec you choose, the fact that you choose an Estate version shows that at some point it is kind of likely that you will be wanting to carry awkwardly shaped odds and ends in your car!

I think Skoda get themselves confused at times by messing around so much over what is and isn't standard in each country that they sell their cars in, that sometimes the proverbial left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing!

Here's a question from the "should have checked that before buying the car" category:

 

How far down does the front passenger seat on the VRS fold down?

 

could someone be so kind as to post a pic? Basically I need the car to fit the IKEA flatpacks for wardrobes which are 245cm long. In our A3 we fold the seat forwards so that we could lean the flatpack on the dash and the headrest just about supported the weight/angle. Just wondering if I should get the load/rack/wing bars (whatever the perpendicular bars that you have to buy for the estate). I won't be used often but SWMBO will be even less happy that we got the VRS :peek:

BTW I have ordered the standard cloth seats, no leather option.

cheers

Edited 4 February, 201511 yr by TomLux

And a follow up question on the one above...if the seat doesn't fold far enough forward...would it be possible to remove the headrest and fold it all the way back (with the seat pushed all the way forward first) so you could fit an oversize item over it and onto the dash?

And to follow up even more, how far will the electric seat fold both ways?

Hey..no hijacking :p

@kallekilponen : from the previous VAG cars I have owned the seats don't fold back very far, They cannot be used for sleeping as seen in some films. They fold much more forwards, but to which extent depends greatly on the seats.

 

Considering how happy most are on here to photograph their shiny cars, I'm sure we'll have some answers for all our three different cases

I believe in other markets the Elegance comes with cloth trim (much like the UK SE) hence why it is an option on non-UK Elegance models....until you spec the alcantara seats.