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This Smittybilt Vinyl Fold and Tumble Rear Seat in Black Denim is for those of you that

have a 1997 to 2006 TJ that are looking for a replacement rear seat that's going to do

pretty much everything that the factory rear seat does, but do it in a slightly different

way.

So this seat's going to have a slightly different shape to it.

It's still going to fold and tumble, as it says in the name, but it is going to do it,

again, in a little bit of a different way than a factory seat does, but it is still

going to have the same functionality, and we'll talk a little bit more about that in

just a second.

So, as far as the installation goes, this is going to be a very easy seat to install.

Because the functionality of the seat is slightly different, you are going to have to swap out

those factory rear seat brackets even if you have a good set in place, but, again, not

a big deal.

It bolts right into place, one out of three wrenches, and we'll show you how to do that

in just a second.

So this seat, again, is still going to fold and tumble.

It's going to have a lever here that folds and a lever in the back that tumbles, instead

of having just one lever on the side that will both fold and tumble the seat.

So, again, slightly different way that it does what it does, but it still has all that

same functionality.

Little bit of a different shape with having wings in the back here, but, again, very comfortable

seat, very similar to a factory seat in everything that it does.

If you have a rear seat in your TJ already, it's starting to get worn out, you don't want

to get it recovered or re-foamed, maybe your seat's missing entirely, and you just want

a good aftermarket seat that's going to allow you to carry a few more passengers in your

TJ, I think this is going to be a nice choice.

And for the quality that you get, I also think it's pretty fairly priced.

This is going to be a steel tube rear seat, which is pretty standard for most seats.

They're going to have a tubular steel frame that is going to be black powder-coated.

Then you're going to have all of your steel springs that go across.

Of course, the foam, and then this is covered in this vinyl material, which makes it very

easy for cleanup, especially if you're somebody who has the top off of your Jeep often, you

can get all sorts of things on your interior, and this is going to be really easy to clean.

It also looks really good.

It's going to hold up really well, and, again, it's going to have all the same functionality

as a factory seat and the fact that it will fold and tumble.

This seat's going to run you $270, and I do think that's going to be a pretty good price.

It comes with all the brackets you need.

It is going to be specific to your TJ, and it's a nice, comfortable seat that's going

to hold up pretty well.

In general, seats are pretty expensive.

They take a lot to build.

They do have a higher price tag than some of the other pieces that you might get for

your Jeep or maybe that you would expect if you haven't done a lot of seat shopping.

But in the world of seats, this is going to be a pretty fair price, and I do think you're

getting a quality seat.

Now, I'll have somebody from the install team to show you how you get this bolted in.

First thing we're going to do is remove our rear seat.

We're going to fold it forward, and we can push up on the release tab right here, and

fold it forward.

All right.

We want to fold our carpet back so we can remove the seat brackets.

I've got a 13-millimeter socket on my ratchet here.

We do have a mismatched bolt here.

I have a 730 seconds Allen wrench.

These bolts are known to break in the floor, so take extra caution when you're removing

them.

Peel our carpet back on the left side.

Remove our 2 bolts with a 13-millimeter socket.

We're now ready to remove our stock rear seat.

Now that we have our stock seat out, we can begin by installing the new seat brackets

that come with the seat.

So we're going to use the stock bolts that we took out of the seat brackets, and we're

going to get the left side bracket installed first.

All right.

We're going to get our left side bracket installed here.

We'll put it in place, and we're going to use two of the bolts that we took out previously.

We're now ready to get our new seat in place.

So what we want to do here is get the pin that has the notch in it into the hole of

the bracket.

And once we have that pin through the bracket, we're going to take the provided clip and

snap it into place to prevent the seat from sliding out of the bracket.

Now that we got our left side bracket installed with the C-clip, we're going to do the same

thing on the right side.

I'm going to flip the seat up, slide the pin into the bracket, and then bolt the bracket

down to the floor of the Jeep.

Flip it up.

Now we can fold our seat up, and then we'll slide our bracket onto the pivot pin.

And once we have the bracket on the pivot pin, we are going to install the C-clip again,

just like the other side.

We can actually fold our carpet back now.

Get our bracket into place.

All right.

We're going to get a couple of bolts into our bracket here.

We have a mismatched bolt here.

These bolts are known for breaking in the floor.

We broke one previously and fixed it already.

All right.

We can fold our carpet back now.

Last step of the install here is to install the striker plate into the floor.

So what we need to do is remove the two seat belt brackets here with a T50 Torx.

We'll install a striker plate, and then we'll put our seat belt brackets back on top of

the striker plate.

I have a T50 Torx on my impact gun.

We can remove our seat belt.

All right.

We'll slide our striker plate under the carpet.

We're going to use the center hole, and now we could put our seat belts and the bolt right

back into place here.

And we'll tighten this down.

Once you've got your striker plate installed, you can fold your seat back down and lock

it in place.

Then you want to feed your seat belts up through the back of the seat here.

And we can fold the seat back up.

That's going to wrap up our review and install of the Smittybilt Black Denim Rear Seat.

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