Need the Collectives help: Swapping whole seat backs

Ok............ I have standard non heat full power seats in my 4S now. I have a set of standard no heat power recline sport seats. The base (Butt Dyno) on the stock seats is in better shape than the sport seat base. Has anyone done just the back swap? From what I can figure and see it keeps forward back movement in place and still keeps the recline power in place..... Thoughts??????

Tim, Curious. Are the sport seats too tight for you or just worn? I replaced and added extra foam on the drivers seat bottom on my sport seats. The foam is ~$60 and it would only take about 1.5 hrs with the seat out to change it. The covers just snap\clip on no hog rings. Also if you look at the seat bottoms you can pull the whole one piece bottom pan\foam\cover off the frame by releasing the two nylon pins in the front and opening the clips. The cushion\plastic pan lifts off from the front and slides out of the back. You will have to remove the wiring harness socket from the plastic pan, it turns 90 deg and drops out. The seat belt wire socket removes by pulling a separator out of the main socket and unclipping the wire from the seat rail guide clips.

The upper portion of the sport seat is what I want. The lowers are OK but my stockies are better

I removed the base seat to lower 1.5 inches. You should be able to remove both base and replace with other. May only need to remove seat cushions with leather top.

If I removed the Bar #24 in the last picture and unplugged the motor would the back come off without having to mess with the lower seat cushion?

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I would imagine bar 24 and which ever attachment causes the seat to pivot on the bar for the incline adjustments.

Hello from Montreal, This is my second post and promise to put up some pictures before oct-nov of my car. if you need some pics for removal and install i can send them directly to you.. i don't know how to post pics here yet. You can take the entire back from one seat and install it to another base but it requires to remove the bottom cushion, the side switch -seat belt wires-etc. 8 torx screws . your entire back will come off with 2 metal rails that will reconnect to your other base.. I just completed taking apart a standard seat such as described above with the cylinder and changed the base to a fully motorized 12 way base. I have two beige 12 way power seats (soft leather) in Savanah beige yellow and 2 black full leather seats with manual front back movement with a motorized back. I switched the power system from one set to the other... and it worked..full recline of the top part as well as full motorized bottom.... one seat done and 3 to go. hope this helps a little. regards

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What?? WHAT????? You promise to post pics before October-November ????? Of what year????? Well, I'm here to tell ya that ain't going to cut it here!!!! OK, now that I have your attention.... Welcome to Rennlist. Below are the instructions on how to post a pic. First post the pics of the seat removal/install for Tim W. and we'll give you an extra couple of days to post pics of your car! Come on, Newbie, post the @#$%^&* pics!!! Here are my "can't miss" instructions for posting a pic. These instructions have NEVER failed to help someone post pics, so the pressure is on YOU to keep my string alive! All words shown in BOLD indicate buttons. If you are just doing a "Quick Reply" you will have to click on Go Advanced button. Then follow the steps below: Down below the part of the screen where you type the text and below the Submit Reply , the Preview Post , and Spell Check buttons, there is a Miscellaneous Options section followed by an Attach Files section. In the Attach Files section, click on the Manage Attachments button. You will now get a pop-up window. There are 3 buttons Browse , Upload , and Close this Window . Click on the Browse button and now (in a new pop-up window) you can search on your PC to locate the pic you want to attach. Click on the name of the file you want and then click the Open button. Now click on the Upload button. After the file has been uploaded, you can click on Browse button and repeat the process to upload another pic or click on the Close this Window button. After you click on the Close this Window , you will be back to the original "message" screen. Your pic file should be listed just above the Manage Attachments button. If you are finished typing the text, you can click on the Submit Reply button and everyone will be able to see your great looking P-car! If your pics are too large, you can resize them with MS Paint, or PhotoShop software, or you can do it online at this web site. http://www.resize2mail.com/