Avant/Coupe questions

[Tony Hoffman]

I've also done this, years ago, to an Audi Fox. I used the rear
folddown seat from a Mercury Tracer hatchback, recovered in the Audi
material. I cut the section out, and welded some strap steel around
the hole. Where I wasn't sure of strength, though, was crossways. But,
the strap was 1/4" X 2", so it was pretty substantial and strong.
Also, I carpeted all the way around the hole when I was finished, so I
had a factory clean look. As David said, the versatility was awesome.

Tony

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Schaible, David
<David.Schaible at jrspharma.com> wrote:
> Although.....you might be able to fabricate a strong hinge setup on your own if you wanted a project....i don't have a sedan, my only experience in this is removing a 200q20v sedan ski bag and installing it in my jetta tdi, which I already converted to the 60/40 split rear with armrest.  The construction of the seats is different, the foldown seats had two layers of metal, in a sheet and corrugated form, tack welded together, as that rear wall or seats must offer substantial body strength to a side impact.......so I would err on the side of caution b4 you take a saw to it, and make it strong if you want to do that mod....anway that being said I love the 60/40 split with skibag super versatile, also the ski bag is size enough to hold some pairs of new school fatty skis, unlike the diagonal style ski racks, the tdi had the single piece foldown when I got it.