niky: I think you're on to something there.
My only "HOLY CRAP THAT'S TERRIBLE!" moment with this car happened when driving over a stretch of broken pavement at ~80 km/h. (Nothing terrible, mind you. A main secondary highway used by thousands of cars a day.)
It set up a wicked vibration in the car's chassis/body (felt more like the body to me) -- some kind of brief harmonic phenomenon that I've never experienced in any other car. I thought my kidneys were going to come out my nose. For a moment, it literally made it difficult to talk.
If removing those braces meant more of that, I'd leave 'em in.
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it would still work for many common things like skis with the braces in place
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Yes, and you might actually be able to doctor/modify the existing folding rear arm rest to accomplish this without taking out the seat back.