Idk how to remove the second row seats, but fwiw The third row is really uncomfortable for daily use... I’d get another sienna if that is your use case.

The floor is high and the roof is low... I’m 5’10 and my head touches the roof liner if I try to put my head against the headrest.

 

They don't intend for you to remove the 2nd row seat in Highlander easily as they do on the Sienna. Sienna has "removable second-row Captains chairs." but Highlander does not. If you remove the seat, you'd have to remove the bolts holding it to the floor that the factory put in. And agree with Blooperz, that's probably way to much to go through in order to gain access to a very small seat in the third row.

 

We'd like to remove 2nd row seats in 2019 Highlander XLE. The reason is that we want to make more room for our mtn bikes, while pulling a trailer. We don't need to remove bench seat. We have the captains chairs...so maybe not too hard ?

 

There MUST be an easier (saner?) why for you take take bikes along!

 

the bikes are special $$$ mtn bikes, we like to take good care of them. they may fit in trailer, but why lug all the large amount of extra weight of these seats around, especially during COVID when we aren't allowing passengers in our car ???

 

You might find more details for your 2019 in the 3rd Gen forum.

Like the 4th Gen, the 3rd Gen seats (either captains chairs or bench) are not designed to come out as easily as they would for the Sienna. Where there's a will, there's a way of course. It would involve some amount of disassembly, either removing the seat from the rails or removing the rails from the floor.

 

Thank you ! We took the 2nd row seats out of our Sienna and it was easy. That was for windsurfing gear I wonder if Toyota would do it for us ...Trying to figure out how to search 3rd Gen forum for my topics ..hmmm

 

Yes, as mentioned above, Sienna has removable captains chairs, meaning they'll come out with just some simple unlatching. Highlander does not have that.

Use the "Search Community" box at the top of the screen to search. After you type something, it will let you choose between the current forum, the entire site, and if reading a thread just that thread ("discussion").