Honda 1990 Civic Si 2 door hatchback.

Jul 26, 2026 Last reply: 2 weeks ago 4 Replies

Hi,



I want to lift the bottom cushion of the rear seat.



Appears its held down by two clips or loops of heavy wire extending down through slots in the steel panel below. One of these clips on each side.



How are the clips released to release the cushion?



Thanks, ... P.



snipped-for-privacy@easthope.ca wrote in news:1143vlb$21864$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

Hello,

I found the following site which might have your particular information.

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Okay, I found the USENET post from a while back that should help you or anyone else find an appropriate USA car manual with all the available text, diagrams, and pictures. This site works for my cars. Hondas are also listed.

Check the following site. The last line is the actual URL.

Best of luck!

Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech Subject: Free Vehicle Service Manuals From: Computer Nerd Kev snipped-for-privacy@telling.you.invalid>

I've been using Operation CHARM for some time

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covers vehicles (USA & Canada models) from 1982 to 2013. Now I see there's a new site, LEMON, with service manuals for vehicles from 1960 to 2025:

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Appears to have links for user manuals but I reached only adverts for Starlink.

Charm and lemon appear OK until the final download step and Chromium reported "Needs permission to download".

Chromium is from Google. I wonder whether it is enforcing a copyright precaution. May try another browser.

Thanks, ... P.

Correction: David rather than Kev.

... P.

snipped-for-privacy@easthope.ca wrote in news:1145kp9$2k4jm$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

Hello Peter,

I've found the best method to use those tools is via the web to start with. Sometimes you can find what you are looking for quicker by just looking at it online. Then if it looks like they have useful information you really want to download (all of it for your vehicle) you can download it to a safe place.

Simple questions, like looking for the rear seat release, might be all you need for now. My download was for a slightly older car and I found the answer quickly by just reading on the web. I did go back for the full download and it was just short of 900MB. I went back later for one of my newer cars and just did the download method and didn't have enough free space available to get it all. The newer cars have so much available, especially in quality pictures. Then you would have to extract the download and then go through it to find what you need.

It sounds like you did it all correctly. That last question is basically your last before what can be a really huge download. They don't tell you the size before doing it. Also once you have the archive you will need to decompress it again locally just to get the ability to do any searching on your machine.

Good luck,

David

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