Rear Seat Outer Trim, Removing And Installing: Removing

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-- Remove the seat benches. Refer to BENCH SEATS, REMOVING AND INSTALLING .

Fig 1: Outer Trims Of Rear Seats

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-- Release the rear seat backrest and tilt it forward slightly but do not fold it all the way down.

-- Remove the screw -3- (2 Nm ).

-- Open the lower latch -2- on the trim.

-- Detach the retaining hooks on the lower trim with a screwdriver from the rear seat backrest -arrow A-.

-- Remove the cover -1- from the backrest in -direction of arrow B-.