Good afternoon, ladies and gents.
Hopefully you are all getting settled into the new year nicely.
Today on my lunch break I employed the help of a mate to fit the pre-facelift boot carpet (under the false floor where the spare wheel would be) into my 2019 Estate.
For those interested the part is 5F9863463, can't lie wasn't cheap but my old Audi S3 8V had the carpet and I really liked it because of the amount of stuff I store underneath the false floor (weird nit picky thing to enjoy in a car I know, I will post pictures soon).
The reason for this post though isn't about the boot carpet, it is actually something I noticed shortly after buying the car that there isn't actually a floor holding mechanism of any kind to my knowledge.
In the S3 which granted was a 5 door we can all say safely it wasn't a luggage carrying vehicle with tonnes of room, one of the very reasons I sold the car, it had something rather cool for the false floor in that car, it had a "floor stay" if we can call it that, below I have copied an image of one of the sides of the boot trim in the S3 and circled in green is the "floor stay" in question, what would happen is when you lifted up the false floor it would press it in like a button until you couldn't physically lift the floor any more, and when you let go it wouldn't just flop straight back to the floor like what it appears to do in the Leon.
So ultimately my question is. have I missed something in the Leon estate where it has the function I am describing or has Seat missed an opportunity to add some more practicality to an already practical car. I'd love to see if it would be possible to retrofit such a system but I am guessing not.
Hopefully you are all getting settled into the new year nicely.
Today on my lunch break I employed the help of a mate to fit the pre-facelift boot carpet (under the false floor where the spare wheel would be) into my 2019 Estate.
For those interested the part is 5F9863463, can't lie wasn't cheap but my old Audi S3 8V had the carpet and I really liked it because of the amount of stuff I store underneath the false floor (weird nit picky thing to enjoy in a car I know, I will post pictures soon).
The reason for this post though isn't about the boot carpet, it is actually something I noticed shortly after buying the car that there isn't actually a floor holding mechanism of any kind to my knowledge.
In the S3 which granted was a 5 door we can all say safely it wasn't a luggage carrying vehicle with tonnes of room, one of the very reasons I sold the car, it had something rather cool for the false floor in that car, it had a "floor stay" if we can call it that, below I have copied an image of one of the sides of the boot trim in the S3 and circled in green is the "floor stay" in question, what would happen is when you lifted up the false floor it would press it in like a button until you couldn't physically lift the floor any more, and when you let go it wouldn't just flop straight back to the floor like what it appears to do in the Leon.
So ultimately my question is. have I missed something in the Leon estate where it has the function I am describing or has Seat missed an opportunity to add some more practicality to an already practical car. I'd love to see if it would be possible to retrofit such a system but I am guessing not.
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