Rear Seat Folding Design

[laserguy]

I keep wondering why honda decided to leave the longer side of the rear seat on the left side? If we park and load/unload items. Why from fold it from the left driver side if we park on the right?

[mechmotion]

No idea. I'm just glad they didn't motorize the seats folding up like everyone else is doing right now.

[laserguy]

I was expecting more opinions as to know why the longer side of the rear seats is on the driver's side. We all load things on the right side, if we load things on the left side on a busy street with traffic the door will be open and it can affect traffic and also can be a safety issue. Maybe honda engineers thought all these trucks were shipping to England and not the American continent.

[Chip Moody]

I don't load/unload stuff while parked in the street, so this really doesn't occur as in issue to me. If I >were< in the street and wanted to load from the side, I'd just flip both up and be done with it.

As for the reasoning/logic, I'd really stretch and guess that objects that are on the tall side might be more likely to be wider than the 40% side would accommodate, so they made the 60% behind the driver in hopes of blocking the driver's view out the back window as little as possible. (I.E., if something is tall enough to block your view out the window, are you more likely to put it directly behind you, or on the passenger side?)

- Chip

[r-squared]

Originally Posted by CMoody

(I.E., if something is tall enough to block your view out the window, are you more likely to put it directly behind you, or on the passenger side?)

Thats good thinking.

I was thinking it may have something to do with the difference between loading passengers versus "stuff". You'd rather load the stuff from the roadside and the people from the curbside. Well, Ideally BOTH from the curbside but assuming you had to pick, this would be the way. So if you had a child and a big box, they'd rather have you load and buckle in the kid on the curbside, and then only risk you and your box on the roadside. They have the tailgate opening the correct way in "swing" mode so there must be a reason...this is my guess. Only because if you didnt need to load both passengers and stuff, you could put both seats up and load from either side.

[laserguy]

good points, takes a while to think of some reasons, I had my own version/reason a while back different than yours, but I forgot, it came to me while loading and unloading, but I forgot it. If I remember it I will replly it, both of these are good.

[hiPSI]

I'm thinking it's six in one hand/half dozen in another. They could not make it a 50/50 split (crack in the middle center seat) so they made it 66/33 and did not care which side the 66% went on. I rarely put the seats up in the back but when I do we always put the R side up to load something tall.

[brich]

For me, I have a car seat mounted in the center of the back seat. Had the long side been on the passenger side, I wouldn't be able to lift that side from the "safe" side of my truck with the seat installed. That's my take...

[07_rtx]

Every 60/40 split I have ever seen is 60 driver side and 40 passenger side. My colorado is like this, tahoe I had is like this same as escalades, suburbans, and avalanches, and mulitple other vehicles. Basically if its 60/40 the 60 is usually always the drivers side whether it be front or rear seats. Don't know the logic behind it, but know its been going on for years.

[e_piph_a_ny]

60/40 split in favor of the driver's side.

First, allows easier access to the driver since he/she will always enter/emerge from the left side of the truck.

Second, allows the third passenger to be comfortably seated without being encumbered by the driver seat positioned all the way back.