C124 Electric Seats in a Manual Seat Car?

[shaunk_22]

Hi, I've been offered electric leather seats for my car which has manual fabric ones. Im going to strip it this weekend and am wondering what I'll need to take off it to do my conversion. What amount of wiring, relays, fuseboxes will i need? is it a matter of my 230ce will have connectors already in place or will I have to take all the loom that goes as far as the fusebox?

My car is a C124 230CE 1991 pre facelift, and the donor car is a 300CE pre facelift, if that makes any difference.

Thanks.

 

[neilrr]

Your car will have nothing in place, you will need everything including the looms, doorcards & switches.

IMHO electric seats are hugely overrated in the desirable option league table, especially if you have to retro fit them & the wiring looms yourself.

Realistically, how often do you move the seat once you have it in the correct position? If another driver uses the driver's seat then without the memory function they are just a nuisance. They are also extremely heavy.

If you have to have leather I'd keep looking for manual seats.

 

[shaunk_22]

Thanks for the heads up, but I'm getting anything I need off the car for nowt before it gets scrapped. So everything is available. I just dont want to get everything fixed up in my car and end up needing a relay or something when I had the chance to you know. I don't mind the work load, just wondered if anyone knew what I'll need i.e modules, relays? I'll take the loom off to as far back as I can. Will I need the fusebox and relay compartment?

 

[BillyW124]

Hi mate

I understand that you have a car that has all the bits you want right? If so you cannot go wrong!

I did the very same thing. Had a donor car and was able to strip it with everything i needed.

You just need to follow the looms and make sure you trace where everything is going to.

For leccy seats based on my experience Left and Right seats loom is one whole.

It connects to each of the seats fed over the transmission tunnel. the ends of the loom feed into the door and up into the seat switches. The Ground wire is screwed on to the many other ground wires up near the ashtray area on the transmission tunnel.

The power is fed into a busbar on the driver side kick panel and the red power cable feeds into the fuse box.

Follow the power wire through the fuse box and take note where you un clip the connector.

Your loom should be fully out! Just to be safe i'd take any relays in the fuse box as well.