third seat in an C4 Avant? I obviously am doing something wrong because as far as I have tried, the spare hits the bottom of the third seat and/or gets hung up on the black "volcano" that the spare is mounted to. I know if I remove the seat bottom I can get it out but that doesn't seem to be a user friendly solution, i.e. a wife having to use a 24 mm socket to get at the spare on the side of the road.

TIA (I did search the archives but didn't find what I was looking for)

Added bonus: Your family's life won't be at risk from traffic doing 80 while you're forced to try to keep the speed under 60.

need to a) find a non-third seat ecru load deck and b) remove the black "volcano" thing to which the spare is mounted.

I don't have kids so nobody would be riding in the third seat while I own the car.

I agree the setup kind of sucks but the third row seat is actually semi-useful for keeping e.g. grocery bags upright. And there is a little mini-trunk underneath to keep small things out of sight.