Boot seats

[haymitch]

I remember once when I was a child the four of us sat in a 740's boot side by side without seatbelts and were told by the adults to duck if we saw any police

The dog was shoved in the back with us too

[Forrest]

In my younger days I got seven adults in a Volvo estate without recourse to fitted boot seats. It was in France and whilst my French is not very good the locals were definitely saying something about the English in a Volvo.

[rwdkev]

Originally Posted by classicswede

Whilst the position is far from ideal in a rear end situation if you look at almost all MPV's etc the rearmost seats are right at the back and no crumple zone for protection.

My thoughts entirely Dai - Volvo made them rear facing for a reason......

[ascott1]

Originally Posted by bob12

As said ^^^^. The 3rd row of seats fit without any drilling etc.

All you need is the 'alternative' plastic vent fitting to accept the seat belt strap. All the holes/threaded nuts are already built in. You may have to pierce the trim in a couple of places to find them!

Just make sure you get EVERYTHING needed off the donor or you can get stuck. Later 745/earlier 940 seats with arm rests are better than the later ones without.

Bob

As Bob says, make sure you get everything. I knew I'd seen something on this somewhere, it turns out it's all in the VOC 700/900 FAQ at https://www.volvoclub.org.uk/faq/Bod...gon_Third_Seat with tips on bits that might break,

and there's a link to a PDF which does mention drilling etc, maybe for older models, at
http://www.cleanflametrap.com/thirdseat.html