1998 Mercury Villager Owner Guide 1st Printing - Page 181

Adjustable Rear Seating The removable and adjustable seats are a convenient feature of your vehicle. Reading this chapter will help you learn about the various ways the seats in your vehicle can be arranged to suit your different needs. Your vehicle is a five or seven-passenger vehicle. As a seven-passenger vehicle, it will have either a two-passenger bench seat or two second-row bucket seats and the sliding three-passenger bench seat in the third row. Read the section that describes the type of second-row seat in your vehicle. To make your vehicle a five-passenger vehicle, remove the second-row seats. NOTE: When adjusting or moving any of the seats in your vehicle, do not use any of the buckles, tongues, or safety belt webbing to carry or move the seats. Lifting the seats by any of the safety restraint equipment could decrease their effectiveness. NOTE: Your vehicle has five different kinds of floor mats: front seat mats, a cargo area mat, a sliding door area mat, and second and third row passenger area mats. Whenever you remove the mats to remove or adjust any of the seats always remember that the mats must be reinstalled before passengers ride in your vehicle. The floor mats are specifically designed to keep objects out of the seat tracks. WARNING It is important to replace the floor mats whenever they are removed for any reason. The floor mats are intended to help prevent the possibility that high-heeled shoes might become stuck in the seat tracks. Failure to replace the floor mats might result in personal injury. 177