How do you remove the rear seat?

[Stephen Soulsby]

Trying to track down vibration from the sub. I have ALL the info I need, except for how to remove the rear seat.

[Agent M79]

Here, try this. I cut an pasted it from one of the speaker threads from my post in it:

The seat cushion does simply lift out with some effort. Needed a pretty good effort but you will hear and feel a POP at about the center of each side where the hooks are.

The seat back on the ’04 300A is held by only 2 bolts. Those are the ones at either side that double as the seat belt anchors. The other 4 bolts are for the child safety restraint anchors and on the ’04 300A are not attached to or anchor the seat back in any way.

Let me tell you a little something about those 2 bolts that do hold the seat back in. Those bolts are a pain.

I think they are fine when they are installed but I think they crimp them to make sure they never work loose. I do not know what size they are supposed to be, but they crimp one side to 11/16th. The others are a little bigger than that. This crimp means the bolt bites the stud all the way up until it is removed.

Once I had the bolts off, I could see indents about 1/8th to 1/4th of an inch from the top down on the 11/16th sides of the bolts. The threaded hole is obviously oval in shape.

Center stop lamp and associated hardware came out as described. The package shelf came out easily. Almost thought the C-pillar covers might have to come out but the shelf slide out from under them with a little bit of convincing.

The speakers came out and new ones went in effortlessly.

I had the scotch-brite foam thingie in my subwoofer too. I took that out.

Everything went back in exactly as it came out, only faster since I now understood it all.