LR3 removing third row seats

[Colin Hughes]

So I'm attempting to remove the 3rd row seats, have the six bolts down the centre out, a couple at the rear, but where are the others. It appears there is one right behind the bracket to lift the rear seats up, how do you get to it. Help please 😄

 

[Colin Hughes]

Well, it seems to help if you are indeed removing the correct torx bolts. Once I discovered that there was a piece of trim running down both sides of the seats where the loadspace anchors are attached and removed it, the bolts I needed to remove were right there. Duh, feeling a bit dumb right now.

 

[unseenone]

Anyone that has had their moments, not a big deal.

 

[jerdog53]

Why are you removing them in the first place?

 

[zelatore]

I've considered removing mine several times. Just added weight I'll never use. Only reason I haven't is maybe one day I'll sell it and somebody will want a bus (really...didn't we all grow up just fine in 4-door sedans and wagons? why all the need for 7 seats now?). That plus it looks like it's fairly complicated to get back to a nice flat load floor if I did take them out.

 

[Colin Hughes]

I have a wooden deck that has tie-downs set perfectly for my camping boxes and my fridge slide is bolted to it. When it is all bolted down, if I get a flat, I've got to take it all out so I can lift the 3rd row seats to drop the spare. I'm thinking I may also do what Chris Cordes did in his RRS and lift my deck a wee bit to take advantage of the extra storage space under there. That and a friend with a 5-seater has expressed interest in them and I'm not using them. Heck, the 2nd row rarely gets used.

 

[jerdog53]

I would love to be able to utilize that wasted space for storage.

 

[spikemd]

I swapped in a third row to my LR3. Had to swap over everything, including the rear carpet to make it look like a factory install. Without the third row, you get extra storage space.

http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/136877-LR3-Third-Row-Conversion