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Do the rear seats in a 2003 Bonneville fold down? Im trying to increase the volume of my 15" Fi inside the cab but it looks like its bolted up/huge metal plate behind the seat

Sadly they do NOT fold down.

nos4blood70 wrote:Sadly they do NOT fold down.

I wonder why. I noticed a huge metal plate behind it. ALL other cars fold down seats. Bunch of rear integration modules mounted on it and such. Lame :'(

Are you just lookin to have more cubic space or do you need the physical room to fit the sub?

sethjamesrimrodt wrote:Are you just lookin to have more cubic space or do you need the physical room to fit the sub?

I want to drop the seats for more volume mainly. But id also like to slide the sub in through the cab so i can fit bigger boxes. Mainly the volume thing

If you don't mind being ghetto.... You can take the rear deck out. It's 5 10mm bolts 3 are easy to get to and 2 you will need a swivel gear wrench to get at, they are right next to the rear window. I did this for awhile when I was looking for a rattle. It made it pretty loud and crisp. You lose your back speakers but keep your back seats.

sethjamesrimrodt wrote:If you don't mind being ghetto.... You can take the rear deck out. It's 5 10mm bolts 3 are easy to get to and 2 you will need a swivel gear wrench to get at, they are right next to the rear window. I did this for awhile when I was looking for a rattle. It made it pretty loud and crisp. You lose your back speakers but keep your back seats.

I have considered that. I had to stick cardboard on both sides of the deck to keep it from rattling. It rattled so bad i couldnt hear the 30hz basslines

Eclipses are designed like that and ill have to see how to make it look pretty if i do decide to do that

LOTS of other cars don't have fold-down backseats....

00Beast wrote:LOTS of other cars don't have fold-down backseats....

And it'd be my luck to get one of them

Structure is why it seems. Even most cars WITH a 60/40 suck. My Impala had a folding rear seat and it was useless as anything more than a trunk vent most of the time.

Seems most foreign cars have folding rear seats, with American cars, it's a mixed bag. It's also been a lot more common the past 5-7 years in new models...

Why dont you just cut a port or two in the deck under the cloth? youll hear it better and wont see any holes

Buy an SUV....sorry just completely dislike huge systems and boxes in cars, well period at all, but don't load a car with its own weight on stereo equipment. It's dumb.

And the car was meant for American luxury performance, not to ghetto blast.

I think the sound quality of a stereo system is better in a car than in an SUV. In an SUV, the sound kind of wallows in the hatch. In a car it seems to be tighter, and you get more deep tones. Of course this is all defeated when you fold the rear seat down in a car... I never have anyone in my back seat, but I never fold it down, because my system sounds better when the seat is up. Not as loud, but the quality is exponentially better.