Proper A2OC member now...

[MacKWT]

I hereby declare myself to be a bona fide member of this auspicious club...

The stages, as I understand them to be, are as follows:
1. Panic that you have broken the rear seats
2. Check out these august and excellent forums (forii?)
3. Master the technique found therein, known to one-and-all as the ‘Kneel and Bounce’
4. Never mention to the wife that you nearly broke the new car...

 

[mjdavie11]

Yes, the seats will do that to you! Best to always remember to lock them in from the passenger door side rather than the boot side!

 

[Proghound]

The only set of rear seats I've had - and there have been several - that always behaved exactly as they should were the originals in my first A2 (Crystal blue TDI). And they were the first thing I changed in its interior. Since then it's been kneel at one end or the other and use the handle most times when I take the rears out or put them back in.