Thread: Remove 3rd row seats

Originally Posted by Chris Preso

I took the seats out last weekend. I followed the instructions below from disco3uk website. Once I had worked out what I was doing it took less than 60 mins. I used a Torx bit 45, there are 12 bolts/screws to remove. With my 12 yo son helping remove the seats from the inside of the car, they came out in one piece easily enough. I wouldn't be keen to do it by myself.

Cheers, Chris

I have just taken the third row seats out. Not hard but a bit fiddly.

1) remove the tie down bolts (two on each side)
2) lift the trim covers off. The facer around the seat base locking mechanism is only held on by a couple of plastic clips and pulls off fairly easily.. The carpeted trim is also only held on by some plastic clips and just pulls up. This exposes the seat mounting bolts.
3) Remove the side seat mount bolts. You will need a TORX bit #50.
4) partially lift the rear of the seat to expose the base, lift the plastic covers around the centre mount and remove the four bolts.
5) partially lift the front of the seats, lift the plasic cover around the centre mount and remove the two bolts.
6) Lift the whole unit out. It weighs 50+kg so a second person to help would be helpfull.


It looks like the seats are in two separate sections and are joined by six rivets to make a full unit.
The rivets could easily be drilled out splitting the seats into two and one seat could then be re-installed back into the vehicle.

THANKYOU!!!
This information was SO hard to find on this forum. Heaps of people saying "its easy"
Its "easy" enough but its certainly not straight forward. Landrover once again proving theres a right way, a wrong way and a british way of doing everything.
You DON'T need to drill out the rivets to remove them separately.
You'll need a T40 and a T50 torx bit and a 5mm allen key drive.

There are 5 bolts along the rail in the centre to remove - the forward most ones are the most difficult to remove because of the trim (you wouldn't have this issue if removing them as a pair)
The middle bolt doesn't need to come out (as I found out after I removed the seats) its just to support a brace/part of the rest for the base of the seat.

if you undo the front mount bracket it will help you to remove the seats individually as you can push the base up to clear the trim - you don't need to do this but it will make it easier.


As for weight - you'd be lucky to save 50kg (less once you replace them with a false floor etc). There is a reasonable amount of room for a water bladder or similar but people removing them for weight saving are barking up the wrong tree IMHO.
I removed mine to clean under there thanks to my dog deciding to have a spew (I can tell you I was impressed...)
Clearly no one thought about cleaning in/around these seats when designing them

Yes my insurance know that I have second fuel tank, they dont ask who make it or install.
Tank is made from 3 mm steel by licensed place to make fuel tanks.