New Prado 150 - can seats come out?

I'll start it off.

Technically it is illegal in Qld anyway to remove bolted down seats for anything more than a Temporary time.
I was quoted as "Less than a week"

When we removed my 2nd row in the 100ser I went to an engineer for

confirmation and for $60 he blueplated it back to a 2 seater.

When we returned 2years later and replaced the seats he replated it back to 8 seats for another $60.

There are those on here who will rubbish this but here is the reply from Qld Roads regarding this


QUOTE
Thank you for your email of 10 June 2010, regarding Modification Plates.
The Departments apologises for the delay in responding.

If the owner of a vehicle which has been modified requires the vehicle to be returned to an original or build standard, (eg; return to the original seating capacity), on completion of the work a Modification Certificate must be issued. There should be at least 2 modification plates affixed to the vehicle.

The modification plate certifying the original modification.
The more recently dated plate reverting the vehicle to the earlier build standard.
Should you require further information relating to your modification enquiry, please contact the department on telephone 13 23 80 between 8am and 5pm, Monday to Friday. (Local call charge in Australia. Higher rates apply from mobile phones and payphones. For international callers, please phone +61 7 3834 2011).

A Client Relations Consultant will be happy to assist with your enquiry.


I trust this information is of assistance.

Yours sincerely,
END QUOTE

This was in answer to me asking about what you had to do when replacing the seats.

The engineer who did this said when he took his certification course they were told that you may not remove the seats for even 10 mins without a plate.

I had to take the car and paperwork to Caboolture and they inspected it and changed the seating capacity on the rego papers and redid them after replacement of the seats.

Some on here have removed them without doing any of this and I got rubbished for a similar reply last year.

However these are the facts as presented to me by the relevant authorities.

The modification code for those who want to doubt me and look it up is

LK1



You may of course do as you like.

Cheers

Jan,

Our third row of seats have been removed and we have installed a Black Widow Drawer system. I should say we have had installed as we didn't remove them. They are now on our garage floor while we work out where to put them. They are quite heavy. We also had a cargo barrier and top shelf fitted at the same time.

Go to pradopoint.com and you'll get heaps of info from there.

We intend totake ours over the Gary Junction, Gibb River and Great Central.

The best we have done so far is go down the steep slope to the beach at Deep Creek. We had 2 passengers in and it did well.

Bruce and Di

without a blue plate would your insurance be voided ?

Jan,

Yes the seats can come out, but it's a fiddly job. I did one and I had instructions. I was taking it slowly as I didn't want to damage anything and it took over two hours.

I'd recommend getting your dealer to do it.

Also be aware that when they come out you are back to metal floor with wires and various other protrusions. It is not an ideal "floor" on which to stack stuff.

Jim.