S8 Rear Seat Entertainment Removal
 

Hello-

I'm looking at an S8 with the rear seat entertainment system. I anticipate little use for this and am wondering if the brackets can be easily removed. On the Q7 forums, a few threads describe removal to be straight forward. However I wonder if its different in the S8 with the strip of carbon fiber / other interior trim piece that arc up and along the backside of the front seat.

Any one care to comment?

Thanks,

TD

I personally wouldn't remove it. Unless there's some specific reason, it can only help resale value in the future. But I understand where you're coming from, our land rover has the rear seat DVDs in the headrests and have never used them. I was actually going to remove them and sell them off but getting into the seat to remove the wiring seemed too daunting for me.

I'm with Fry, I'd leave it be.

Also, if you delve into seat trim, be careful on availability depending on exactly what you have now--as in I think it may affect that trim somehow and needs changing ideally. Yet more $ and hassle.

Also as a safety matter, be carful fooling around here. Lower down you have the side airbag, but watch out for the headrest positioning system when impending accident is detected. I don't know if it is doing something mechanically, or its a last millisecond explosive charge. It may be the latter on some Audis; if so here obviously be careful in this work area. All least unplug sear connector points. Airbag/remote trigger stuff I have seen on others is typically yellow coded and in separate harnessing than other conductors.