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So.... You want to fit a seat cowl then.
Presumably you have just got one and either it's already painted, and ready to fit or you've just spent a few hours painting it and getting a lung full of cellulose and you've sent ages rubbing it down. Well done on getting this far, the next bit's a doodle by comparison.
Open rear seat pad
remove the two 10mm headed nut's. 
Unscrew the two nut's like so...
Picture 1 & 2, First bit then open the rear seat pad, see those two 10mm headed nut's you need to remove those, while supporting the seat pad with your other hand, as in Picture 3 above.
Seat Pad Removed.
Use the 2 thickest of these to space cowl.
Place these spacers on top of seat hinge.

Picture 4, Remove seat pad. When you bought the seat cowl you will possibly, depending on which make you got, have been supplied with 6 plastic spacers as in Picture 5 above, if you did you'll need to use the two thickest together and tape them temporally to the top of the seat hinge as in Picture 6 above right. Otherwise when the cowl is opened it will hit the seat side panel's and rub all the paint off when in the open position (not good)
I also found the supplied bolt's a bit too short and bought some slightly longer ones as they weren't quite going far enough into the captive riv-nut's in the new seat cowl and the cowl wobbled about, when opened.

Bolt the cowl in place with the longer bolt's
Almost Finished
The Finished Job.

Picture 7, tighten the new bolt's into the seat cowl carefully, you don't want to strip the thread at this stage, now do you.
Picture 8 The new seat cowl in place,
Picture 9
Now doesn't that look better........all it means is, you'll have no more passengers spoiling your fun day's out hooning about, and if you do want to take passengers it's only a 10 minute job to re-fit the rear seat pad.

 

 

 

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