Is it just the 4 bolts holding the slide rails down and a quick unplug of the electrics ? Geoff

Might be best to disconnect battery also just in case you forget to plug in one of the looms for seat airbag and your left with a fault light on . Cant advise on removal but nosey to know wjy you are removing seats? Present :2008 TDV8 HSE
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Problem with rear door speakers apparently the wires chaffe under the front seats Geoff

four bolts and the one for the seatbelt... if you dont put your keys in the ignition whilst the seat is removed you wont put the airbag fault light on... as suggested above, if you disconnect the battery you dont run any risk... hope this helps...

Thanks guys keys out battery disconnected it is. I think thats what's called belt and braces Geoff

You do have to leave the batt connected till you've undone the seat bolts as you have to drive the seat back and forth. Drive the seat back until you can undo the front bolts, undo, then drive the seat fwd again till you can get at the rears. Tilt the backrest fwd and you'll have a balanced package as small as it's going to get. Then undo the rears, disconnect the batt (Follow procedure! Wait for the nav to shut itself off!), disconnect the plugs under the seat and remove by lightly lifting the seat out the front door.  
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Thanks Steve,

I had been through the procedure in my head and realised that you need the battery connected initially then disconnected before meddling with the wires or disconnecting stuff. I assume that if an air bag fault code did register I could clear it with the IIDTool anyway. Obviously you have done this before, do I need to actually lift the seats out or can I just move them into the back.

I can't do it yet as I've lent my socket set to someone and I can't get it back until Monday

Thanks
Geoff Geoff

i've removed both front seats without dis-connecting the battery...made sure the car was in sleep mode and the key out of the ignition..no airbag warnings at all..

Geoff,
I've not actually had to repair speaker wiring - that was Christian and Patrick on Christian's RR - but if you look at the pics, they had to fold the carpet back to get at the wiring. You'll need to have the seat out to get that far.

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you are absolutely correct steve...battery dis-connection is the proper way to do it, i just found it quicker/easier to remove the seat without dis-connecting it..bad habits are hard to get rid of.

Don't sweat this boys, I will disconnect the battery - Health and Safety - and take the seat right out as you suggest Steve.

Stan,
I'm nervous disconnecting the battery but more nervous messing with wires when it's connected, moving the seats out is only to get at the aforementioned wires. Interestingly I had never noticed that the back speakers had stopped working (only the top ones) until the IIDTool told me they had and I checked by sticking my head in the back, it's obviously normally in the front - my head that is


I actually found last time that disconnecting the battery is a sort of reset for some suff, a bit like rebooting a computer.

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Cheers Geoff

geoff , dont forget to turn the steering wheel fully left ,then right after connecting the battery back up......

Sometime later .....Like I said disconnect the battery  Present :2008 TDV8 HSE
Gone Audi A5 2.7TDI
Gone Discovery 3 HSE
Gone Mercedes CLK
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Sometime later .....Like I said dsiconnect the battery

 Geoff