[Vwdiesel] A2 Jetta 4 door, rear door common leak, how to fix

[James Hansen]

Look at the back of the seat from the trunk side.
You'll see the bent wire clips that hold the seat back... it's just a 
kind of brute force thing, much like the struts were... :-)
You have to pull the seat up, and out of the holes the wires deals are 
trapped in.  bottom cushion has two little bolts on the front side IIRC. 
  Been a while...
Currently, I'm trying to figure out how to get my gps deal to spit nema 
data over to my seed population monitor, and made the pop monitor use 
that data...
-j


Will Taygan wrote:
> And how does one take the rear seats out?  I was trying to figure that
> out last week on the 91 eco when I was doing the rear struts.
> 
> By the way, it helps to jack up the opposite side as well so the
> trailing arm(?) drops down and you can put the struts back on.  
> 
> Ask me how long it took to figure that out..
> 
> Will.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 03:32 -0600, James Hansen wrote:
>> Had this on my 89 A2 when I first got it years ago.
>> Neither back door opened, as the guy never used the rear doors.
>>
>> Take the rear seat out, so you can see the latch from the inside- when 
>> you scrunch down and peer into the door gap.  You'll see the door catch 
>> jaws trapping the pin.
>>
>> Then, with a poker of some sort, pry the latch open as friend holds the 
>> trigger down on the door handle.  If the door handle is broken, you have 
>> to remove it first, then push down on the metal bit you see there.  They 
>> break off quite easily after removing the screw you CAN get at.
>>
>> What happens is the door catches on the rear doors sit at such a poor 
>> angle, they fill up with crap, dirt and water, then rust right on the 
>> bottom where all the slidey things have to move.  You need to take the 
>> whole deal off on the big allen screws, clean it up inside, lubricate 
>> it, then reinstall.  You'll be surprised how un-complicated the thing 
>> really is.  It's fully disassemble-able, and you can shiny up the parts 
>> on a wire wheel easily. Reassemble with something that discourages rust, 
>> like fluid film.
>> -james
>>
>> LBaird119 at aol.com wrote:
>>>> Thanks, I think I answered my own question here.
>>>>
>>>   Gotta do the same thing here too.  Driver's side as well.  Only 
>>> problem is after sitting a while, both back outside handles fail 
>>> to open the door.  Someone got cute and flipped the kiddie lock 
>>> on one of them so...
>>>   How the heck is it you get a back door open when neither handle 
>>> will open it!?!?!?
>>>     Loren
>>>
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