1. DISPOSE OF BACK DOOR STAY ASSY LH

(a) Horizontally fix the stay in a vise with the piston-rod pulled out.
(b) Wearing safety glasses, gradually cut a part between A and B (shown in the illustration) using a metal saw to gradually release the gas.
Specification:

CAUTION: Be careful to cover the area that is being cut as there is a possibility that metal debris could be blown out by the gas (the gas is colorless, odorless and harmless).
ReplacementPrecaution
CAUTION:
HIGHLANDER is equipped with SRS, which consists of a driver airbag,
front passenger airbag,
side airbag and curtain shield airbag. Failure to carry out service
operations in the correct sequence
could cause the SRS to unexpectedly deploy during servicing, possibly
leading t ...