My A2 has rear seats that can be taken out and left at home - and this is one of the big reasons I went for a Yeti since very few cars give you that option. Something that this allows you to do (that is not described in either the A2 nor the Yeti's manuals) is to lower the passenger seat right down backwards with the back seat immediately behind the passenger seat completely removed. If you have a second boot floor (as I do in the A2 - or if you have a spare in the Yeti) you get a fully flat floor from the back of the boot all the way to the dashboard! I've loaded things into the A2 over 2 meters in length easily. (Ideal for long IKEA flat pack furniture right up to their tallest bedroom cupboard units).

Has anyone tried this in the Yeti? Can the passenger seat be wound right down as I show above?

Dunno - but is that spare legal !?

Dunno - but is that spare legal !?

Hehehe... it is a full width space saver that is uninflated. It has the width of a normal tyre, but the radius is smaller to fit in the boot. So when you inflate it (with the standard compressor that came with the car) what you see there pops open and has a far bigger radius and the thread also comes to the fore!

Edited 16 April, 201016 yr by 900000

Hi 900000,

unfortunately the Monster is not quite as clever as the A2 when it comes to the front seat.

That's as flat as it goes.

Regards,

TP

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Edited 16 April, 201016 yr by The Plumber

Hi 900000,

unfortunately the Monster is not quite as clever as the A2 when it comes to the front seat.

Oh no!!! That is not clever now is it! Well at least the interior volume is much higher so if I want to do this I can but there will just be a hump over the passenger seat...

Of course, the more practical way to carry long AND wide things would be a couple of cross bars on the the roof rails. That's what they are there for - or have I got that wrong? are they just styling elements?

For really long and heavy parts, you attach the removeable trailer hook and a suitable trailer. I think IKEA and most building supply stores will lend you the trailer free.

With a suitable trailer attached, the Yeti performs as a small lorry - you can move your teenage offspring to college, including their monster soundsystem..........and if you don't want them to move back, you can always sell the trailer

Edited 17 April, 201016 yr by Agerbundsen

Of course, the more practical way to carry long AND wide things would be a couple of cross bars on the the roof rails. That's what they are there for - or have I got that wrong? are they just styling elements?

For really long and heavy parts, you attach the removeable trailer hook and a suitable trailer. I think IKEA and most building supply stores will lend you the trailer free.

With a suitable trailer attached, the Yeti performs as a small lorry - you can move your teenage offspring to college, including their monster soundsystem..........and if you don't want them to move back, you can always sell the trailer

Living in London I have nowhere to keep a trailer nor do I want a tow bar for the once in a blue moon I do this sort of thing...

And yes I know the roof bars are there (and I already have the Thule Aero bars and just need to buy new Yeti "feet" to connect them to these bars) but I won't trust my own knot making abilities to tie something to the roof and expect it to still be there when I get home! So I'd have preferred the indoor version as I do in the A2. But I think the passenger seat might go low enough for certain long loads still. I'll see when I get the car and I have a long load!

:-johann

I feel a knot making thread coming on.... NO FRESHACRE :no:

Could be a nice boy scout badge, nee Skoda badge, gathering affair. Go on an off road course and then learn how to tie ropes together after!

:-j

Edited 17 April, 201016 yr by 900000

This is NOT a KNOT making thread, but Google a trucker's Hitch. Learned once, you will never forget - and it is nowhere as complicated as it lokks in the animations.

Hi 900000,

unfortunately the Monster is not quite as clever as the A2 when it comes to the front seat.

That's as flat as it goes.

Regards,

TP

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Hi TP

Is that because the front seat is resting on the rear seat, or is it the same with the rear seat removed (which is what I assumed you meant)?

Hi TP

Is that because the front seat is resting on the rear seat, or is it the same with the rear seat removed (which is what I assumed you meant)?

Hi Fred,

it's a little while since I took that pic for 900000 but if I remember correctly the seat back did not get quite as far as the rear seat base at max travel.

Regards,

TP

Hi Fred,

it's a little while since I took that pic for 900000 but if I remember correctly the seat back did not get quite as far as the rear seat base at max travel.

Regards,

TP

I think what you are looking for is what Audi used to do in the A4 / A6 Avant and Volvo did for aeons before the bean counters started building their cars for them and that's a passenger seat that folds forwards and is flat while still leaving access to the footwell for long items.

Of course no one can sit in the front!

I think what you are looking for is what Audi used to do in the A4 / A6 Avant and Volvo did for aeons before the bean counters started building their cars for them and that's a passenger seat that folds forwards and is flat while still leaving access to the footwell for long items.

Of course no one can sit in the front!

One version of a Ford car I had (not mine though) had a forward folding front seat as an option - potentially very handy.

I assume that the Yeti front passenger seat cannot be removed because of seat belt tension devices etc.

I've done that in the past (35 years ago) on one car, though it was a struggle to get it out and even worse trying to get it back

Hi Fred,

it's a little while since I took that pic for 900000 but if I remember correctly the seat back did not get quite as far as the rear seat base at max travel.

Regards,

TP

Had a go at this for the first time over the weekend as on odd occasions I transport a display panel which is about the same size as a household door.

With headrest removed from both front and rear seat, the front seat goes back just far enough to join with the top of the rear seat folded forward (front seat slid all the way forward as well). As I have a spare fitted this then gives a continuous level(ish) load space right through to the dash. No point removing the rear seat as the front doesn't recline any further.

Can't really angle anything long down into the footwell as the front seat base being forward gets in the way.

To get the width I folded the centre as well.

Sorry no pics as it was raining whenever I thought of it.

Had a go at this for the first time over the weekend as on odd occasions I transport a display panel which is about the same size as a household door.

With headrest removed from both front and rear seat, the front seat goes back just far enough to join with the top of the rear seat folded forward (front seat slid all the way forward as well). As I have a spare fitted this then gives a continuous level(ish) load space right through to the dash. No point removing the rear seat as the front doesn't recline any further.

Can't really angle anything long down into the footwell as the front seat base being forward gets in the way.

To get the width I folded the centre as well.

Sorry no pics as it was raining whenever I thought of it.

Thanks Weaver! Now that makes total sense!!! You need to tip the rear seat forward and THEN you get a near level floor because the front seat can't go down far enough! And if you have the spare wheel and extra floor in there it should be pretty level! Result!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's such a close fit it has to have been designed that way - it would be level enough to sleep on.

It's such a close fit it has to have been designed that way - it would be level enough to sleep on.

Well if you do the same to the driver's seat you could (I guess) fit a double blow up bed in there to do just that!