Leather seat retro fit

[puggy]

You Dirty Boy !!! i will have you know i carry a hand towel with
me at all times !! bloody cheek of the boy .

[waue1978]

Whilst this subject is on the go , how easy is it to remove front electric
drivers seat from a 2000 glx non memory . After removing seat belt bolt
and the four seat bolts does it just lift out , what about the cables etc .

Watch you don't put your back out doing it - those electric seats are bloody heavy. When you put it back in make sure that you do the front 2 bolts up before the back ones. The hole in the runners at the front is a circle, but the back ones are oval to allow for a little movement.

[puggy]

Thanks for the advice

[Dave107]

Thats a very good point, not actually looked at the air bag side. Had just assumed it was the same, plenty of sockets below both, although different colours! Got MOT on Saturday, so will ask that question whilst there. And going by the council regulations (private hire vehicle) they'd probably fail it on any lights already!
As for the light, had that light up when I disconnected all the wiring out prior to realising hadn't the correct size hex key. With that in mind, would a blank/short across the connection give the 'impression' of an airbag and remove the light?
Hmm, shall be asking some questions, if she passes test, no need to raise attention to anything unnecessarily!

You could end up with a potential MOT fail there. The 99 models generally didn't have seat airbags & your 2002 would have them fitted. By fitting seats without the airbags you'll bring up a warning light on the dash which from January next year is supposedly going to be an MOT fail.

It's not just going to be airbags - engine management lights etc could all end up failing MOT tests.

[steve_earwig]

With that in mind, would a blank/short across the connection give the 'impression' of an airbag and remove the light?

Not quite viewtopic.php?f=28&t=15574&p=150920&hil ... or#p150920

[RayneR]

With that in mind, would a blank/short across the connection give the 'impression' of an airbag and remove the light?

I think in order to do that you need some kind of resistor doing bridge in the plug. and this resistor must be specific for that, like the right ohm and stuff .. or else you can end up frying the air bag ecu ..

[Gary406]

you have the same idea as me ive got the same problem all im goin to do is strip the leather off the seats i have bought and fit it onto my seats lol. am goin to have to make holes for the adjuster cos the leathers don have em and as ive learnt french electrics are a pain in the ass lol thats why not bothering with electrics lol

why go to all that trouble. i retro fitted leather into my 1998 lx with no problems. even the elctrics are easy. very easy infact...