fauz11

Hi all,

I recently got a 2004 E320 wagon and was sold on it as I was told it has 7 seats. However I can't seem to figure out how to get to my 2 rear boot seats and I've asked several mechanics without success yet. All I can do is move the boot floor in the video below.


I found a 2005 E320 wagon manual and it seems the floor has a fold in it that mine is missing. Can someone tell me how do I get to my seats?

Thanks

MJ50

moved to W211 forum...

konigstiger

Attached manual instructions. Check your PM.

Long Islander

Looking at your video, unfortunately, it is clear that you do not have a third row of seats. If you had a third row, you would have had two sections of floor as shown in the manual, one of which (the front one) would flip up to serve as a backrest, and the other as the seat bottom.

When the W211 wagons first came out in the US in the fall of 2003, a batch of them (which were 2004 models) were accidentally produced with no third row and a $750 credit was given on those cars. I recall seeing one such wagon on the showroom floor. When we were ordering ours, I asked the salesman about that and he was the one that told me they accidentally made them without the third row. He asked if we were interested in the third row delete option, but my wife wanted it so I'm not even sure if was possible in 2008 to delete the third row by choice.

Yours seems to also have an optional slide-out tray which I believe BMW 5 series wagons also had at one time but I've never seen it listed as an option the W211's, at least not in the US. I don't know of any way to retrofit the rear seats aside from replacing a huge number of very expensive parts.

In any event, it seems you have a unique wagon and I'm sure you will enjoy it. The rear seats are of limited use anyway. Our daughter was 6 years old when we got ours so we thought we'd get lots of use out of it. In reality, in 7 years, I don't think we've used it 7 times and now she's almost 5 ft tall, so she and her friends have pretty much outgrown it.

murman

My Canadian 2004 S211 has the powered slide-out tray instead of the third row of seats. I'm the second owner, bought it from a dealer, who suggested that the first owner had it special-ordered.

That tray has been quite handy sometimes, keeping me from bad ergonomics when pulling something awkward out of the back of the car.

samaritrey

I have only seen one with the powered tray it was an e55wagon. Very cool option that i would want if i bought a wagon.

murman

My S211 is a lowly E320. If it had come with the third row of seats, I likely would have taken them out (if possible?) for just the extra storage space.