Thanks for the great shout out!! Glad you hit your 700 subs mark today! congrats on that milestone!

Good job Dave. Was gonna say the extra wires were for the seatbelt and airbag sensors, but it's already been mentioned...keep it up..

Great video on the wiring. Very simple and straightforward. I will be trying this weekend.

Hi Dave , Greg here . I'm on the edge of my chair watching this . Those seats look quite fancy . I've never looked at modern seats from underneath , there a lot to them . Being a low options kind of fellow ( manual everything ) this is pretty cool. Almost makes me want to put a loony in one of those claw machines in the shopping malls and try to pick up a stuffed toy !

@ScottRods

4 жыл бұрын

They are also very heavy, so I hope my little V8 copes with the extra weight, from the chair and the big pile of fat that sits on it.

I pulled some seats like those out of a 2004 chevy monte carlo. they hook into the floor on the front and a bolt in each track at the rear. Very comfortable driver interface units.

This is great, just bought power seats for my 98 ram pickup. Hoping it will be this easy for me tomrrow as well

@ScottRods

2 жыл бұрын

So how are you getting on?

When you were playing with that bundle of wires, I couldn’t help thinking of a 007 movie, where Bond has 20 seconds to diffuse a nuclear bomb. Cut the wrong wire, and BOOM!.....or maybe it adjusts the lumbar support. Looking forward to your upholstery videos. That’s something I know nothing about, but would love to learn. BTW, your sounding good on that guitar. It took me a long time to fret the chords that cleanly. 👍Tony

@ScottRods

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tony. Once I know where the seat is going, I'll tear them down and hand them over to my wife. She doesn't want to be filmed, but I'll do my best to sneak some footage. Hope that's not a chargeable offense lol.

Seats should make for a comfy ride. Ya got the guitar sounding good also!! Have a good one!

@ScottRods

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Joe. I'm hoping that this car will be a proper cruiser that will take us all over Canada and the States, so comfort is essential.

I just got a pair for my own build out of like a 2004ish grand prix. Im pretty sure the grand ams had similar if not the same seats

Hey Dave. Funny that you posted this video just now. My Grandson and I were just talking about getting a set of power seats that look close to what you have. Mine are coming out of a 1999 GMC Jimmy. They are beige leather. I will die them black to suite the Fargo. Mine are still in the Jimmy, so maybe it will be easy for me to remove them with all the pigtails. 😷👍👍 Your guitar is a little more tuned now.

@ScottRods

4 жыл бұрын

I got lucky Andy. Really nothing to do other than add a couple of connectors.

@AndysDogHouse

4 жыл бұрын

@@ScottRods Soooooo what are all the other wires for❓❓❓

@ScottRods

4 жыл бұрын

@@AndysDogHouse I'm guessing, heated seats (3 heat settings) and maybe seat belt crash tensioner?

@AndysDogHouse

4 жыл бұрын

@@ScottRods Thanks Dave

Modern seats, wired for either a butt parked in it, or not! Also, wire into the airbag system! Otherwise, how could you get that lovely ding, ding, ding, sound? Keep it up!

@ScottRods

4 жыл бұрын

Excellent deduction Mr Holmes.

@joshuahuffman4533

3 жыл бұрын

Anyone wanna help ? so the positive gets hooked to the live wire I ran from battery and where do I hook the negatives? To a ground?

The wires that run through that yellow connector were for an airbag sensor. At least two wires should go over to the seatbelt connector that run that annoying light on the dash when you don’t have your belt on. Hope that helps

@ted5415

4 жыл бұрын

two wires twisted together are usually for airbag or computer communication. they are twisted to help shield the signal from interference from other wires. there are usually 4 wires for heated seats, 2 to heat the grids and 2 to a thermostat to shut off/on when temp of seat gets too hot.

@ScottRods

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I figured a couple might be for the seat belt tensioner and BOING noise. I'll be sure to hook them up again............NOT

@sdalin27

2 жыл бұрын

@@ted5415 Any idea if you have to be careful not to trigger the airbags by testing for wire functions? Just pulled some BMQ 745Li seats to go in my humvee which have heat/cool/massage, and tons of power movement functions.

@ted5415

2 жыл бұрын

@@sdalin27 not sure about BMW but airbag wires are usually run in separate yellow connectors. your seat probably has side airbags so try to trace those wires and dont test them to be safe. if not using the side airbags then you should remove them completely from the seat.

There should be a button on one of the post on the head rest. Push the button and the headrest pulls right out.

Yellow wire connectors mean guard yo face cause their airbag related

The twisted pair will be for SRS airbags and seatbelt indicator lights.

@ScottRods

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Stacks, so I can hide them, never to be seen again lol.

@staxonvehicletracking3468

4 жыл бұрын

Yep

4:47 that’s what they all say when they visit Salt Lake City...

@ScottRods

3 жыл бұрын

hahaha, I'll need to check that out for myself one day.

@tsloth1390

3 жыл бұрын

@@ScottRods thanks for the video, just what I needed, I’m going to hook mine up tomorrow and try and get em installed... never welded before so this might be an adventure...

@ScottRods

3 жыл бұрын

@@tsloth1390 Good luck, and don't be like me, wear something fireproof when welding, lol.

Don’t you wish every job was that easy! Lol

@ScottRods

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'd be driving by now.

You officially play guitar better than me now : ]

@ScottRods

4 жыл бұрын

hahaha, you must be REALLY bad then

Grand prix seats

cool video Dave . not sure if you got a jump in subs the other day/week i gave you a shout out after i found your channel . Glen

@ScottRods

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Glen, I'm sure I got a few.

The head rest my be a powered head rest

Hoot Man! (sorry). You got luckier than me. The seats I am using came out of a Ford that I worked before removing. Like yours, I had 2 big wires, and 10 small ones. I hooked up the 2 big wires like you did, but nothing. Don't know how to figure out all the little ones.

@ScottRods

Жыл бұрын

Maybe the seat frame acts as part of the grounding?

@toadabc

Жыл бұрын

@@ScottRods So nice of you to answer, and so fast. Thank you. My passenger seat is power and just uses the two wires like you did and it worked without the frame grounded. But the drivers seat has 10 additional wires that passenger seat doesn't have. I think the problem is with those.

@ScottRods

Жыл бұрын

Hey, no problem. I wonder if your driver seat needs a signal to tell it the vehicle is in park. Like the neutral start switch? Tell us all what vehicle the seats came out of and we can do some wiring research together.

@toadabc

Жыл бұрын

@@ScottRods Thanks again. The seats came out of a 2001 Ford Explorer LTD that I purchased as a parts car. To get the seats out, I put a battery in the Explorer and the seats worked front and back so I could get to the bolts. The switches and drivers and passengers seats are the same and they have the same functions. The difference being the additional 10 messenger wires are the mystery.

@toadabc

Жыл бұрын

@@ScottRods Showed the seat to a friend. He doesn't know the answer, but showed me that the small wires got to a circuit board under the seat. I am sure it monitors something, but don't know if I can by-pass or just energize it from the power source.

Just watch you dont get a seat with an internal airbag you dont want that to pop...

@ScottRods

4 жыл бұрын

I'll check the side bolsters for that, thanks.

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