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Talking about seats ...
« on: 05 July 2013, 11:53:15 AM »
Following from a previous thread, thinking about the practicalities of buying a recent car with sporty seats and retro-fitting the old style armchairs.

a) Any problems with swapping electric / manual seats ?

b) I assume the back seats are different saloon / estate ?

Any other hints and tips? Probably be going black leather / black leather so wouldn't be changing the door cards amd any other trim, seats only.

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Re: Talking about seats ...
« Reply #1 on: 05 July 2013, 12:12:53 PM »
Back seats are completely different between saloon and estate.

People have fitted electric and memory seats in a car that didn't have them, but form the description, it seems a lot of trouble.
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Re: Talking about seats ...
« Reply #2 on: 05 July 2013, 01:23:59 PM »
I have fitted electric seats in my car, the wiring for the heaters was already there but not the movement.

Also in Saab's wisdom they had changed where the wires were placed in the plug.

Also another odd thing my car (2002) had a sensor on the passenger seat that told the Airbag module if the the seat was to far forward, the later seats did not have this but as my car was looking for it I had the swap the sensor across from my old seat. The hole was there for it but the threads had never been used, probably cost cutting?

If you want memory that is more complicated so I just fitted a switch from a non memory seat and got the appropriate trim. It sounds more complicated than it actually was but it all works and no warning lights.

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Re: Talking about seats ...
« Reply #3 on: 05 July 2013, 01:30:19 PM »
Most likely I would be going from electric to manual, so it wouldn't be such a problem