Does the 850 saloon have folding seats?

Does the 850 saloon have folding rear seats? Would I be able to fit a
mountain bike in the boot of saloon, maybe with the seats down it
would be ok?

 

A bike-rack attaches nicely to the boot. Also, I have managed to
fit a bike inside the 850 (after taking the front wheel off).

Beverly

 

Every 850 sedan (saloon) I've ever seen has folding rear seats - and
I've put a bike in my more or less identical S70 with the rear seats
folded.

--
Mike F.
Thornhill (near Toronto), Ont.

Replace tt with t (twice!) and remove parentheses to email me directly.
(But I check the newsgroup more often than this email address.)

 

Interesting. I know the rear seats in our S70 do fold down, and was
pretty sure that they don't fold down in our 850, but truth be told,
I haven't actually looked -- I've just sort of assumed that they don't.

I may very well be mistaken, and will post the outcome here in a
couple hours.

Beverly

 

Heck, I've transported a single bed mattress in my 850 "boot" (read:trunk),
with the lid closed and seats folded....to the amazement of the guys on the
loading dock...LOL
K

1993 850 GLT in 601 RED @ 280,000km (OK, so there's no A/C anymore...)

 

An unrelated question:

In the USA they say race cars are running nose-to-tail or in traffic
they are running bumper-to-bumper.

In the UK do they say race cars are running boot-to-bonnet?

 

No we usually say bumper to bumper. Never heard anybody say
boot-to-bonnet.

So what is the answer to my question, do the rear seats fold on a
vovlo 850. Conflicting replies here. I cant imagine them not being
folding on some models and folding on others.

 

Yes- roughly 60:40.

Tim..

 

"My '93 850 sedan/saloon had a rear seat that had a center section that
folded down exposing port through which you could put skis or a movie
screen through. There was no way you could put a bicycle in the trunk
and the back seat. There was bicycle rack that fit in the trailer hitch.

On 850 estates/station wagons, there are 60/40 rear seats that fold down
flat. You can easily carry a bicycle in it. The other day I carried a
10' pipe inside my 850 wagon.

 

Wrong - only estates (wagons) have folding seats. Saloons (sedans) have
fixed rear seating except for the "cubby-hole" as mentioned by Stephen.

Cheers, Peter.

 

Sounds like there might be a variation between countries.

My (sold in Australia) '96 850 has fold down rear seats, roughly 40:60, and
a "ski" hole behind the fold down arm-rest / child seat.

For those who say their's don't fold down, check in the boot, it's possible
to lock them so they can't be folded down, as a security measure for denying
access to the boot, for example when you give the "service" key (for want of
a better name) to someone else. Check the owners' manual.

Regards
Barry

 

My 95 850 Sedan (US) has the cubby hole behind the fold down
armrest, but the seats also fold down, 60/40 split. A friend's
93 was the same way.

 

Sorry peter, you are wrong- all european 850's and S70's have folding rear
seats, I could go out to the garage and fold them in two cars which are sat
there!

If they didnt fold- you'd have no way to remove the parcel / hat shelf to
get at the speakers which are there!

Don't forget there are two red "dis-arm" tabs in the boot/trunk which need
to be flicked before the seat back release levers in the passenger
compartment will actually unlock the seat.


Tim..

 

And I can tell you that my brother's '94 has seats that fold down 60/40,
as well as the pass through.
--
Mike F.
Thornhill (near Toronto), Ont.

Replace tt with t (twice!) and remove parentheses to email me directly.
(But I check the newsgroup more often than this email address.)

 

As unlikely as it may seem, this may be the case. I'm certain that I've
seen a sedan model advertised with a choice of rear seat
configurations: either 60/40 folding, OR non-folding but with a ski
pass-through plus integral child seats. The big caveat is, I can't
swear this was even a Volvo that I'm remembering, much less an 850 of a
certain year and from a certain market. But basically, it is possible
that both setups exist.

Chip C
Toronto

 

Thanks for the helpfulness Tim. I would have thought that the parcel shelf
was accessible from inside the boot as in 944s and previous models (240/260
and 740/760). My 944 has two large elliptical speakers fitted to the parcel
shelf which have Volvo identification markings on them!

Cheers, Peter.