d9 electrics,

[lozz]

Im thinking of getting some leather seats
up to now ive found all the wiring inplace in my lx,
where wouid the ecu for the seats live,

im trying to work out what ineed from the breaker car,
any ideas,

wouid this all be plug and play considering ive got all the plugs and wiring inplace ?

[steve_earwig]

The ecu sits under the driver's seat. I presume you have the wiring for non-memory seats (two yellow plugs?) so they'd be plug and play, more or less, memory seats would be a nuisance but it's do-able. There's no point in having the memory ecu as everyone says it won't work (although no one's saying why) so it would be a lot of wiring for no gain.

[waue1978]

From what I've heard, a large problem with the memory function is that it is also linked to the mirrors & would need a feed from the mirrors for it to work.

Although I do agree with Steve - would've thought some whizz kid somewhere would've sussed a way to get it working by now.

[lozz]

The ecu sits under the driver's seat. I presume you have the wiring for non-memory seats (two yellow plugs?) so they'd be plug and play, more or less, memory seats would be a nuisance but it's do-able. There's no point in having the memory ecu as everyone says it won't work (although no one's saying why) so it would be a lot of wiring for no gain.

cheers mate
the plugs under the blanks where the air bag switch is theres 2 ithink 1 blue one yellow,
under the seat theres plenty of plugs dont know what there for some are clipped to the seat some are tied,

[Doggy]

lozz, I wouldn't bother with the ecu - it only gets you the memory function, (which I've used twice in as many years) and wouldn't miss if it wasn't there. Promises to be a royal PITA to get working, your BSI may not support it and I think you'd need different mirrors too as I don't think they all have the position sensors necessary for the ecu to do it's thang.

[steve_earwig]

It only gets one of its power supplies from the BSI, not sure if that requires turning on (think it's the same feed as the windows etc.) but that's immaterial if you get all the feeds from the seat feed (I've clocked mine, they're live!). Different mirrors yes (maybe it needs input from these to store a memory?)

[lozz]

cheers,
iwill just rip everything out of the car in the yard and go from there
the main thing is everything will just plug in and work no wires needed

the chap at the yard says ican take everything iwant from the inside of the car for £100 so its Happy days

[waue1978]

Where are these seat feeds coming from? When I was fitting my seats I had to get a feed from the battery as mine never had the yellow plug for the seat motors in it.

[lozz]

Where are these seat feeds coming from? When I was fitting my seats I had to get a feed from the battery as mine never had the yellow plug for the seat motors in it.

im not sure where they come from tbh,
but theyre all present on mine,

iwill have another look and see where they all run from ,
at the moment all i can see is them tied and clipped to the seat not much room under there to have a proper ganders,

[Gary406]

i have an ecu if you wanna go that route lozz.

but i havnt used it in my D8.

no1 has got round to figuring it out yet because memory is a useless function that you wont even use if it was there..

i think the only main reason you would use the ECU is to get the heated seats working because my ecu kit does that,

[lozz]

i have an ecu if you wanna go that route lozz.

but i havnt used it in my D8.

no1 has got round to figuring it out yet because memory is a useless function that you wont even use if it was there..

i think the only main reason you would use the ECU is to get the heated seats working because my ecu kit does that,

theres a ecu and everything in the breaker car mate,
iwill just rip everything out even the door cards,

if nowt will fit in mine ican always pass them onto someone afterwards,

im getting fed up with the Grey seats

[Gary406]

yep same here. thats why i made everything black

[lozz]

The grey ones are comfy but there abit like looking at wood chip wallpaper boring and bland,

[waue1978]

Are you changing the dash to black too? If so, let us know if you find an easy solution to undoing the backwards screws in the piece behind the glovebox. You'll know what I'm on about when you try to remove it.

[lozz]

Are you changing the dash to black too? If so, let us know if you find an easy solution to undoing the backwards screws in the piece behind the glovebox. You'll know what I'm on about when you try to remove it.

yup iknow which ones you mean,
ive had mine undone already its just a case of finding something that will hold a torques bit thats angled,
withought an angled tool it be a mare,