Fabia advice or other small estates

[philpalmer]

Hi there.
Just wondered if anyone knew when Skoda stopped you from moving the squabs/bolsters (not sure correct term) on the back seats forward when putting the seats down... so you can get a flat loading area.

My car is a 2009 1.4tdi fabia and I can do it but not on my wife's car. She has a fabia 2017 1.2tsi.
I'm looking at getting an estate. I saw someone online saying that on the mk3 hatchback they stopped this but you could still do it on the estate.
However we went to see one today. It was a 2017 car and I couldn't do it.

The alternative is a Honda hrv which seems to be a groovy way of folding the seats flat where the rear seats drop down into the footwell to give the flat load bay I'm looking for. The jazz also does this but is a bit small and the civic looks perfect but rear visibility is a big problem.

Happy to consider anything else. Not sure if Golf seats fold flat.

I'm looking Japanese or vw/skoda as I've been told to keep away from anything with a wet belt.

Sorry for the longwinded question.
Thanks

Phil