Back Seat Removal

[sidewayssam]

hey all im just wondering if il get a yellow for not having my back seats, can i re register the veichle as a 2 seater? also do you need sound deadner in your car if it is going over the pits

[Kaido_RR]

i'm not sure weather or not it is legal or illegal, but i was running around without backseats for awhile in my r33 and had been pulled over afew times by the police and they didn't say anything about not having any rear seats.

[Brockas]

Not Illegal, in fact if you're registering it as a 2-seater then you MUST remove the rear seats. All holes in the parcel shelf and bare metal covered.

[Gabbo2047]

my mate was driving his silvia with no back seat and a cop puled him over. red sticker which means pull over get out and walk. but i spose it depends on the cop

[DCIEVE]

like brokas says rego as 2seater and no problems, just seal the boot.

[Mrbacon]

Hey, i had this problem with my 32, coz i got a half cage and no back seats. Cops yellow licky'd me and told me told i needed to register it as a 2 seater. So i took it to Pits in Kelmscott, told me i COULDNT do it. Confused i called the Technical Section in Welshpool, told me it was all sweet, told me to check the National Code of practice (linked)

http://www.infrastructure.gov.au/roads/saf...n/vsb_ncop.aspx

Check the pdf file labled, LK Section to do with Seating and occupancy. basically, if you plan on PERMANENTLY removing back seats, you need to seal up any holes left by the removal of back seats, boot still needs to be seperate for cabin (ie parcel tray and metal plate need to stay in place) and then fill out a form saying you wish to register it as a 2 seater. Might need a engineer or Mech to sign sayin, yes it meets the requirements on the check list. Just read the PDF file, pretty self explanatory. All the best with that.

[Crumz]

I ripped mine out (s15) for collie, then when I went to put them back in, I couldn't get the seatbelts to come out... Seats were in tho. Got stickered one night for bald tyres and had to go over. Rather than f**k around with the seatbelts, I figured I'd go the 2 seat option so that if I needed to pull the seats out again, I could, legally.

ALL bolts/brackets/anything else sharp/not a part of the body needs to be removed and you need something to block the boot from the cabin (I used MDF drilled into the body). I think that's to do with fumes/possibility of explosion, but I'm not sure.

My car is still rego'd for 4 seats, but have the permit for no rear seats. So in the event I want to take the whole family out, I can throw it all back together (with seatbelts) and still have 4 people in the car legally. In the event I want to go to collie and load up 10 tyres, I can rip it all apart and do that legally.

Only thing is, I think you'll find if you have the back seat in, you will need to have the seatbelts in. So even if you have the permit and get pulled over, not having seatbelts for seats is a yellow, where as if the whole lot wasn't there you'd be fine.