For Sale:
2005 Toyota 4Runner, Sport, V8, 4WD
191,250 miles
Considering the sale of my beloved 4th gen 4Runner Sport V8 to fund the purchase of another bucket-list vehicle. This vehicle was originally sold in NV and lived there with its first owner until 2017 until it was driven to OH and sold...
I recently swapped leather seats into my 2005 Sport with the gray/black fabric seats. The Sport seats are now for sale as a full set (front + rear).
-non-power (except driver side lumbar support)
-side air bags
-non-smoker
-no pets
-no rips
-no stains
Located in Cincinnati, OH.
The seats i bought are heated. That may or may not be part 2 of my swap. It looks relatively straightforward using the factory wiring diagrams. My problem is that I am already using the center console switch blanks for other things.
question about this...
do ALL of the power functions work with the key off?
-slide forward/backward
-recline
-lumbar support (if you have it)
-seat height adjustment
-seat bottom tilt
i am working through a swap of 06 leather seats to my 05 sport and i have a separate thread detailing my...
We finally had a warm sunny day here and I had the opportunity to work on troubleshooting the two vertical adjustments (seat height) and lumbar support.
I proceeded with option #1 that I had outlined above in post #3.
Because I had the pigtails from the donor seats, I was able to de-pin one...
On to the driver seat.
Before removing the old seat, I tested the wiring coming from the floor of my 05 Sport to see if the main (Red/Blue; pin 9 on the white connector) 12V+ wire had power. Thankfully, it did. This gave me hope that the driver seat would be a direct swap. And it was, sort of...
There seems to be very little interest in this thread (0 replies and 236 views as of this update), but I will continue to document the process for anyone that wants to attempt this swap in the future.
To complete the power supply to the passenger seat, I went with option #2 that I listed above...
I fixed this issue recently on a different car (2002 BMW 540) by doing the following:
1) fully extending the belt and thorough cleaning it with upholstery cleaner and a steamer.
2) once it was fully dry, spraying some silicone on a microfiber cloth and applying a coating to the entire belt...
Hi, Everyone-
I'm starting this thread to document my seat swap experience. There doesn't seem to be a lot of solid information out there (that I could find) other than a few threads of people who have had various luck with the swap. Most seem to get hung up on the wiring.
Original Seats...