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Old 01-20-2021, 12:37 AM   #1
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Repair manual needed, I think

I have a water leak and the carpet in front of the rear seat is wet. I have tried in vain to find instructions for how to remove the rear seat from a 2008 hatchback base model (the base model does not even have a rear windshield wiper). What little information there is online is for a rear seat that is split and slides. My base model has a single piece seat that does not slide.

I think I need to get the information I need from a repair manual of some kind, but I am not sure which manual I need and where to get it.

Some posts on the forums here have information on various manuals. For example, there is this link https://cardiagn.com/2007-toyota-yar...r-manuals-pdf/ but they ask to allow them to install a plugin to your webbrowser, and I am not sure it is really secure. Does anybody know if the site is secure?
And there is this link https://www.toyota-tech.eu but I am not sure where the information I need is on that website, if it is really there.

Any advice for where to get the information I need would be appreciated.

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I need to get the carpet in front of the rear seat up and the underlying pads out to dry them. (I have tried towels and the carpet is much improved, but when I kneel on that carpet, my pant's knees get visibly wet indicating the underlying pads are still quite wet.)

I can see how the lower (bench) part of the rear seat is fastened at the two sides (by prying up the front end corners of the bench seat) see attached photo of the E10 Torx bolt. And I can see how the front of bench is attached, there are two standard hex bolts, see the attached photo of the hex bolt. BUT, the back middle remains a mystery. The back middle of the seat bench appears to be attached by hooks welded to a bar that is under the bottom edge of the seat back. This bar runs perpendicular to the long axis of the car. And I don't see how to remove that bar, it ends under some plastic molding at the sides of the car.

Thanks,

R.

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Old 01-20-2021, 07:03 AM   #2
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The bench cushion pops off of the frame.
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Old 01-20-2021, 10:42 AM   #3
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this might help

https://jdmfsm.info/Auto/Japan/Toyot...als/index.html

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Old 01-21-2021, 12:15 AM   #4
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Thanks very much Wee and Steve. I found that information helpful. In addition, a relative told me that there are online Chilton manual files available through the local library here. That information is essentially the same as the information under "SEAT" at the link Steve gave above.

After looking at this information, I removed the bottom seat cushion. It really took quite a yank upward at each of the two cushion lock hook sites to get the bottom seat cushion to release, but it did release and is now in my apartment. I also managed to remove the hex nuts (see picture in the earlier post) and I am hopeful that I can get the E10 Torx bolts out tomorrow using a manual impact driver (they seem to be stuck). More later, but I am hopeful I can mark this thread and the associated threads that led up to it as SOLVED soon.

Thanks again,

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Old 01-23-2021, 09:14 PM   #5
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I am going to mark this thread and two others that are related as tentatively SOLVED, although I seem to have forgotten how to mark a thread as SOLVED. Thanks to everybody who replied to this query and in the two related threads.

I managed to get the back seat bench (lower part) out and to remove the black metal brace it is attached to. I used a hex simple ratchet wrench with an attachment for a hex nut and I also used the ratchet wrench with an E10 Torx attachment. These bolts were tight, but I hit the end of the ratchet wrench handle lightly and they loosened up.

I was quite concerned about stripping the bolts as I had been warned by another poster. So I tried to be careful not to be too aggressive. I only attempted to unloosen these bolts after putting PB Blaster penetrating oil on them and tapping the bolts lightly with a hammer multiple times over several days as suggested by one of the other posters.

I also bought a manual impact driver with an E10 Torx impact socket wrench attachment and an impact adapter to allow the E10 Torx socket to be attached to the manual impact driver. These three were obtained from Harbor Freight Tools, parts number 64812, 67898 and 61991. Total cost about $25. I used this setup on one of the Torx bolts, but I am not sure it helped to loosen the bolt or not. I think it takes some experience to use one of these manual impact drivers, but I think they are great tools for some people and cheaper than a battery operated impact wrench. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXWiS8sDZX8 and see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKZqNcn3Cvc . As I said, I think it takes some experience to use this tool; it seems that using a large hammer and tapping slowly (to achieve displacement) is better than using a small hammer and hitting it mightily. I think this may be because you need some displacement of the handle "downward" towards the bit head, because the tool is spring loaded.

The rear carpet is up and the underlying pads are out and have been in the oven at a temperature of about 125 degrees Fahrenheit drying. And I am putting old towels and newspapers under the rear carpet to dry it out. My plan at this point is to reinforce the black weather stripping on the roof by running a bead of silicone rubber cement along either side of the strips; and I am going to use 3M Window Weld Ribbon Sealer 3/8" x 15 ' to reinforce the tail light gaskets; and I will use windshield (British "windscreen") sealant to seal cracks in welds between metal pieces and also perhaps the rear hatch gasket. These strategies are advised in two related posts.

More info is in these related posts: Advice about leak, water in spare tire well, I think and Rear seat removal instructions needed for 2008 base model Yaris hatchback.

I'll try to include some pictures later.

Thanks again to everybody,

R.

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