fitting 1998 v6 coupe leather seats in a 2003 rapier estate

[mundy1989]

Hello everybody, I've picked up a set of leathers cheap from a 1998 v6 estate, my 2003 rapier has cloth ATM but has a few spare wires under the seats and the plugs are there for the heated elements, does anybody know how to hardwire a permanent live to the drivers, the new seat is ment to have an ecu as it has memory? Any help would be great, thanks

[GingerMagic]

Aha, I did mine a couple of weeks ago, I bypassed the ECU and wired the seat directly.

Have a butchers at how I did it
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=22912

It is easier to remove the switches from the Rapier seat, and fit them to the leather seat.

I am guessing of course that you have electric seats already..??

If you have manual seats its a whole different ball game - but if you have a square yellow plug under the seat, this is the power supply to the switches so you can grab some non-leather electric switches ( GLX, LX etc ) from a scrapyard.

[mundy1989]

I do have a yellow plug to plug in for the power source, but the passenger seat has a yellow plug under the seat, I can get hold of a non leather switch, where would the yellow square plug plug in on the drivers seat though, thanks for your help

[GingerMagic]

The leather seat has colour coded sockets in the base.

Yellow is power, white is a blank, big brown is the heater element, little brown is the side airbag and little blue is the pre-tensioner, I think.....

The passenger seat should be a straight fit, only the yellow, blue and 2 brown connectors to plug in - maybe try this one first to see if it works?