I picked up some tore up power seats off of craigslist for $20. I don't know if the guy had a dog and let him chew at them but that's what it looked like. They were dirty and disgusting and all broken. I figured for $20 I could try to restore them since he said all the motors worked and luckily they did.
They turned out to be a little worse than they looked. I ended up buying $75 worth of seat parts off of a part out from robb1887. I needed the two harness connectors to plug into the seats, the lumbar switch, the 4 switch knobs, a little rod that went between the motor and the seat and then I needed a whole switch assembly because the drivers side had some broken wires and broken mounts and also the passengers side had a broken piece of the switch that I was able to take from the old broken drivers side one.
And then also this trim piece mount on the drivers side was broken off so I had to epoxy that back on.
And then on both seats the motor on the bottom of the picture was broken so I had to epoxy those back together as well.
Then I had to paint all the trim pieces black.
Since like everyone else's lumbar switch seems to break, this one was too which was ok because I wanted to put it in the side of the trim piece.
The back cushions were in decent shape so I just swapped my original cloth bottom cushions on to the seats. I ended up getting a leather seat bottom cushion for $20 from Kanger so I used that one and one of my cloth cushions.
I pulled back the stock leather and put seat heaters and seat coolers. Looking at the seat coolers, I'm not expecting much because they are these tiny little fans. One idea I have to make them better is to tap into the A/C vents and run a hose up into the seats to behind the fans but I'll see how these work first. I put them on the seat backs and bottoms but only have pictures of the backs.
I picked these up from
Auto aftermarket carbon fiber seat heater,seat cooling system
Their prices have gone up since I bought them, I think I paid like $100 per seat for the heaters and fans.
This is where I mounted the switches.
I have yet to put in the drivers side switches or wire either seat up yet so I don't know how well they work.
The new seats have a front bar as opposed to my old seats so I was able to take that bracket off for the foot well LED's and put the LED strip right on the front.
The seat covers are coverking leatherette custom fit seat covers. I found the cheapest place to get them was autoanything and use a coupon code. They were around $200 for just the front seats. The back seats have some cheap $40 ebay ones because I have two car seats back there and don't want to waste money on those getting messed up from the impressions of the car seats.
I've had the seat covers on for a couple months now on my old seats and they aren't great. They are really good but not great. They are seat covers so you cant expect them to be perfect but two things I don't like are the headrests and the front of the bottom cushion. You can see in the LED strip picture that they are loose in the front, which fortunately isn't even noticeable when you get the seats in. The other thing is the headrest holes. I don't have a picture of them but they aren't really custom made there, its just like a weird sown open strip. But its not noticeable if you leave your headrest all the way down which I always do.
Installed and working.
Linear Mode
