Removing Seats & Carpet

After some time off to think about what I am going to do with the car. I started to remove the interior to make room for me to get to the transmission tunnel. first of all I started by removing the seats. To do this you have to lift the carpet by the front doors and locate the tunnel which the seats sit on. You will have to have a set of thin spanners else you will not be able to get to it. The other bolts are simple just use half inch spanner on the bolts and there is one alan key need for back bolts. I found the best way was remove the seats and then remove the runner legs after because the bolts are in at weird angles.
The rear seats are even easier. Just three half inch bolts on the front underside of the seat where your legs would go. Remove bottom part first by lifting at an angle and out of the hooks. Then the top bit after i found two bolts in the boot that held it, Then just lift out of hooks.

The last thing to remove before you can get the carpet up is the seat belt holdings. Easily done though just four bolts in total for seat belts. You will need a socket set that goes up to a large size because you may not get enough purchase on the slim head bolts. The seat belt catches are easy just one on each. Its best to remove them else it will rip the carpet. Heres my stack of bits.
You should now be ready to lift the carpet up.

Now the carpet is up. Under the carpet is an underlay. Unfortunately my came out in bits because the underlay was sodden. The only piece that survived was the center piece which is in the picture below. I have kept all the bits so that one day when I put the new carpet it I can use it as a template.

My next BIG problem is the amount of hidden rust that was under the carpet. I have now discovered that i have big floor rot. so big in fact that i was half a millimeter from doing a flimstones.