How do you remove the rear seats in a Toyota rav4?

Answer 1

2009 RAV- Just did it today, not easy I'm afraid. First, get yourself a small flathead screwdriver. Pull the plastic covers off the floor brackets to expose bolts( 2 in front, 3 in rear) and remove the bolts obviously. There's a cylinder looking thing at the back of seat that houses cable ends to the seatback release, pull the grey clip off it. Now tip seat on its side for the F'n sucky part. Remove cylinder housing from seat mount, tiny flathead screwdriver to pry tabs up helps. Now moving toward front of seat you'll see another rectangular thing with a red tab in it. Remove that from seat mount as well like the cylinder housing. In rectangle thing, pull red tab out enough to release it from threads and push the cable back toward the cylinder and push red clip back down to hold in place. pull tops off both sides of to see what's going on in cylinder. Wiggle the cylinder around now it should be more slack and you'll see a opening in side that you can slide cable/end nut out, use your screwdriver to manipulate. It should pop out eventually or you can just muscle out of the top of the cylinder. If you've worked on bike brakes before, it's a lot like that. On the bigger seat there's a seatbelt you'll need to unhook from the bottom, push a flathead screwdriver in side slot ot release it. * You'll want a really small flathead screwdriver to reassemble the cylinder mechanism and some patience. The engineer had a cruel sense of humor when he/she thought that connection up on the seatback release, turns a 10 min seat pulling job into 30min, more if you don't know what the hell your doing at first!