Seating in a 15 Passenger Ford Transit Van/Wagon: Details and Removing Rear Seats 

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This is an excellent explanation on how to remove all of the rear seats of the Ford Transit passenger van.

This is so detailed and helpful! I'm taking these out myself and I'm glad that you are showing one person doing them

Thank you! Your instructions are so specific I was able to unleash the seats myself, (I'm 61) and only needed some strong men to actually move them. Van life loading!

Christopher- This was VERY helpful !! I just bought a Transit last week, and removing the seats is my first step. (And storing them is my 2nd step.) THANK YOU so much !!

HUGELY HELPFUL video! I can't even get a Ford dealer to remove them, I am a pretty old lady, lol. So I got my Torx set and am ready to go. Just have to get my Son to help me lift them out. THANK YOU, this video was a godsend!!!!

Thanks for the video Chris. We just bought the same model and this was very helpful for removal of the seats and planning on which seats to remove. Will definitely be looking for more videos soon.

Just got a Transit and am enjoying your level of detail. Thanks for the videos!

I just bought a transit and it didn’t have the seat releases- we juryrigged some metal wire to do the trick! Thanks a million!

I have the smallest version of a 2015 Transit Connect. Enough room to sleep me when camping. Some of your hacks also apply to my van and this channel is so helpful.

Thanks Christopher. This video made the removal super easy. I was stymied until I watched your video. Great job.

Simply put this was excellent. I really learned a lot in this video.

Thanks for all your time and detail on this! It's very helpful to see the nitty-gritty stuff. I've looked at lots of photos online, but it's still hard to discern some of the things that might be important. The links to the Ford Brochures were SUPER.

This video was so helpful and making my decision on my business transit

Great Tutorial for seat removal. Great tips! Thank you!

Great video ..thanks Christoper ..it’s answered all my questions about removing chairs on ford transit

Really appreciate including the bolt head sizes so I know what bits to get!

OMG. Great video! Very helpful to us for removal and storage aspects. Thank you so much! Just got our 15 seat Transit van and we plan on removing all but 3, 4 and 5 seats and use the back section to transport ebikes and camping gear when we go RVing.

Very detailed review. Thank you! We're trying to decide if this is right for our expanding family.

Very comprehensive and useful, thanks very much Christopher.

Great video, and thank you for the time and effort to explain the basic details!

Best video ever for this process. Thanks millions

Thanks so much for this video it was a life saver,

Thank you for video, I been looking for a cargo van for my business but with the understanding of the seats being removable, I can use this for business and beach trip with family. Great video

This was wonderfully thorough.

OMG!!!! Thank you so so so so much for all this DETAILED Info. I took a lot of time and effort 👌 💪 🙂 I Really Relly appreciate it. I'm currently buying a Transit passenger 15 seat 2016 fur a camper. I'm 62 years and will be trying to do all this by myself. This was so helpful. REALLY YOU SHOULD PUT A COURSE TOGETHER AND SEE IT.

Thanks for the details on the seats man, really helpful as I'm looking at these types of vans

Fantastic video. Thank you.

Super helpful! Thank you

Fantastic video, it really helped us with our trip luggage storage. Thank you.

Awesome video, I can appreciate all of your hard work on this! I’m renting a van for a week long trip with 8 adults and looking to see how to configure it and remove some seats for cargo / coolers

Extremely thorough video...nice job.

Fantastic detail! Thanks!

Great informative video. Thanks for the level of detail and explanations. Subscribed and following you conversion posts. Best John G

Two words: thank you!

Thank you so much for this video! I got a lot of information from it!

It's heavy but quick installment from vehicle to vehicle. My 10 month old seems to really like it

Good video! Thank you

Great job ....very helpful...thank you !

Great video. We didn't find the two attached back seats that heavy. Just yesterday to put them back in our 11yr old girl and a 10 yr old neighbor carried them out of the house, down the steps, and into the van.

Very very helpful🎉

Thanks, excellent video

Front seat is equipped for car seat for the dad with a work van that only has 2 seats can pick up his child from baby mommas house for weekend visits yet still has the entire workspace in the back to pay 18 years worth of child support

Thanks for share✌🏻

Awesome presentation....great job.

This was great! Thanks for the complete demo of how to clear out the van. I am relieved that the seats are basically easy to remove (by two strong, patient people). It is incredibly helpful that you showed the exact structures and mechanisms, and gave us the torque head wrench sizes you used. Thankfully, I would only have to remove 6 seats from the 8 passenger MR FTC Wagon. I wouldn't want to keep the removed seats. Maybe a Ford dealer would uninstall and keep them. If not, I know how to get 'em out, thanks to you.

very informative.

very well done... thx

Very helpful! one thing I discovered is there's a hole in the side - after you pull the lever on one you should stick something in the hole to hold it open...

Thank you very much, i am planning buy one ford transit passesnger van for selling art, i am planning take off all the seats, now i have to figure out how to install racks in it, for displaying my art

Great video, I haven’t seen one this in depth detail about these passenger van any where online , thanks so much

Thanks for this video. It was very helpful. The child seat on the front passenger seat is not without purpose. Not sure if someone else addressed this in the comments. You can turn off the front passenger airbag with a switch, or, in some cars these days, it automatically turns off airbag if the weight sensor does not pass a threshhold. The purpose for having a child seat anchor in front passenger seat is because in the event you take out all the seats, like you just demonstrated, but still need to have a toddler go along for a ride, the front passenger seat is it. Not ideal place for small children, but almost all passenger cars these days allow for the front passenger to take a toddler seat without the airbag being an issue.

very helpful

Thanks

trampoline spring handle would work as a great seat release tool.

The top tether on the passenger side front seat is for rear facing car seats. A rear facing car seat can be tethered down to the seat in front of it. And since the seat close to the door does not have a wall next to it it’s highly recommended that you would tether it in

18:00 if you’re just tryna learn how to pull the seat out 😂

My guess is the reason they have a car seat anchor in the front passenger is if you are using a cargo van configuration and need it in a pinch. It should also have weight sensors to disable the airbags for passengers under the safe limit.

Hi Christopher, nicely explained videos. I couldn't find video where you explained/installed electrical system (AC/DC) and bed/drawers.

The reason for the front seat top tether is if your using it as a cargo van and don’t have any rear seats There should be a switch to turn off the air bags

A family of ten, we removed seats 12-15 the week we purchased the van.

thank you for such a thorough run through of the seating features. do you know if seats 6+7 (or 9+10) could be mounted where 3+4+5 normally goes?

Great videos! Exactly what I've been looking for. Any chance you know the length of the floor behind what would be the third row of seats (including driver/pass.)? I'm curious how much space is back there but can;t seem to find an accurate source

There may be the option to turn off the airbags for the front passenger #2. Pick ups often offer this feature

Thanks for the time you spent. Which states you’re from?

Great video, very help. When removing the bolts on the rear seat, the seat belt tensioner retracted or locked up on you. How did you resolve that tensioner issue?

Your video helped me remove my seats with ease! Thank you Thank you Thank you! Question: The protruding floor plates, did you remove them? If so, how? I can't find a release and the only thing I can think of is breaking the weld? Any ideas? :)

Loved the video on removing seats but my question is can you get covers to put over anchor slots after you remove seats?

Omg this helps a tooonnnn!!!!! Do you think I can installed a 2 person bench in the 2nd row (take out the 3 person bench)? Would the same idea work in a crew van? Switching the 3 p bench for a 2 p bench! 😁👍

Hi Christopher, great video, really helpful :-) I would like to install only 2 seats on the first row. Is it possible to take seats 5 and 6 and install those in place of 3, 4 and 5 ?

This was super helpful. Do you have any idea if the 10 seat van uses the same rear bench as the 12/15 or similar releaseas the 3 seat? Im torn between the 10 and 12 seat config. And go Dawgs! (Your hat is actually what pulled me to your video!)

Insane how difficult they make this

Great video. Does the floor mount anchor brackets come out too?

Great video, super helpful. Do you know if it’s possible to get around the 3 second row seats while the sliding door is closed or is it too narrow? (I know there’s a step there)

Amen💯

Hi Chris, Once the seats are removed, what did you do to cover all the holes in the floor? Over time lots of grit and cheerios could end up in those holes! Thanks for your informative video.

What was the yellow thing you removed from the black strap behind the wheel well?

Great detail! Do any of the seats fold down?

18:20 It’s not missing a handle. There is only one, as factory, which can be switched to another seat for use.

Seats may have a weight sensor, if it doesn’t exceed 50 lbs I believe the bag won’t deploy, that may be why it’s there

My used 2019 had all the seat removal handles... EXCEPT seats 13 and 14.

Hi Christopher, do you happen to know the measurement from the back of 3rd row seats (6-8) to the back door? seating for 8 passengers, but removing the back 2 rows. I can't find the measurements with seating anywhere but hopeful you might have noted it during your build?

Chris did you ever figure out how to get that seatbelt to work again? I expected mine to do the same and even tied a knot in it so it didn't retract too far yet it did lock anyway

Great video! I need to transport 15 of the 2023 transit seats, in a vehicle that is significantly smaller than the Transit that they came out of. So I know I'm going to have to Tetris them in order to get them to fit. Is it possible to fold the seats down after they're removed? Typically with an SUV or Van, you'd be able to fold down the back of the seat onto itself to allow for extra cargo/carrying space. I don't have the seats with me (this is a job I will be doing for someone else who owns the seats but needs them shipped), so I'm not able to check for myself. Are you able to tell me if your seats will fold down after being removed?

Hey, what is the distance from the back of seats 3,4,5 ally he way to the back door?

What are the exact measurements length (starting from the rear of seats 3, 4 & 5) to the ( closed) rear door and the width . Thank you

Hi. Do you know how much the seats weighed. Great video.thank yoy.

I want one

Hi Christopher, have you tried to take off the floor? What is the thickness of the floor and what is the ducking layout beneath it? Are there rails hidden under the floor that could be repositioned to move forward the 2nd-row seats?

Hey man great video. Do you think there are no rear anchor for car seats on the window seat because of the curtain airbags?

Thorough much? Thank you sir!

does any of these seats fold flat? like rear seats in suv and hatchbacks when we need to load long cargo items?

Great video. but too late for me. I have a 10 passenger T-150 130 WB version. I had to remove all but the rear triple seat to make room for a wheelchair lift and locking unit. I do not or need them for future. So I am going to sell my seats along with the mounting rails in the floor.

You have a lot of videos do any of your videos show whats under the hard hump on the drivers side by the back doors???? I just got this vam having trouble finding info on that part

How should I dispose of the extra seats, I have, after converting my Ford Transit passenger van? Thanks

I can see if this type of vehicle is used at a daycare or similar type of facility and in case of an absolute emergency, you need to evacuate a child away from the zone and to a local Fire Station, you would be able to put one more at the front. Again, i'm only speculating on a worst case scenario.

Are you to make a video of your conversion? Bed, water? Etc. Thanks

Hey Christopher. Did you ever resolve the issue of the stuck belt for seat 12/15? I'm having that issue in my seats (I let them retract too much and didn't know any better) and haven't been able to get them to release.

Can the 2 seat 6-7 move up to the place of the 3 seat bench?

Chris your video is very useful. Just got a 2018 Transit. Want to convert from 15 seats to 12 seats. Need last seat row for cargo. How do I do that?