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Old Oct 19, 2005 | 04:06 PM
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Electric Seats

I Would Like To Know How Much Trouble Would It Be To Install A Set Off Front Bucket Seats With Console That Are Electric And Also Heated Into My F250 2003 Modle,the Seats That I Want To Use Are Complete With Tracks. Hope Someone Can Help The Seats Are Out Of A F250 2003 Modle
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Old Oct 19, 2005 | 10:35 PM
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It'd probably be more work that it's worth if you tried using the OEM stuff. You'd have to install the harness that runs the power seats on a truck that came with them, this may be part of the body harness that runs all throughout the truck.
 
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Old Oct 20, 2005 | 12:24 AM
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Quintin knows his stuff, so perhaps I'm missing something in the post. The caps every word makes it almost impossible for my tired old eyes to figure out.

Are you swapping in power seats from another similar truck?
Memory seats?
Just power seats?
Seat heaters?
I have swapped in power seats in several trucks. The regular power seats usually only require twelve volts, so if your truck doesn't have the harness under the carpet (Jeep, Chevy, etc. usually have the plug stashed under the carpet under the seat)
If it's not there, you can just wire a heavy gauge wire via a battery tap and fuse.

If it's heated seats, I have installed late model ford seat heaters in a non - ford truck, very easy to do as the late (2004 up) seat heaters have a simple module that needs twelve volts, two LED's to read hi-low and a simple momentary ground switch.

Memory seats require routing through the PCM on the newest ones, and are not good candidates for swaps to non-memory optioned trucks.
If I had a better grasp of your goals I could take a stab at being more help.
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Old Oct 20, 2005 | 09:13 AM
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Originally Posted by ChrisAdams
Quintin knows his stuff, so perhaps I'm missing something in the post. The caps every word makes it almost impossible for my tired old eyes to figure out.

Are you swapping in power seats from another similar truck?
Memory seats?
Just power seats?
Seat heaters?
I have swapped in power seats in several trucks. The regular power seats usually only require twelve volts, so if your truck doesn't have the harness under the carpet (Jeep, Chevy, etc. usually have the plug stashed under the carpet under the seat)
If it's not there, you can just wire a heavy gauge wire via a battery tap and fuse.

If it's heated seats, I have installed late model ford seat heaters in a non - ford truck, very easy to do as the late (2004 up) seat heaters have a simple module that needs twelve volts, two LED's to read hi-low and a simple momentary ground switch.

Memory seats require routing through the PCM on the newest ones, and are not good candidates for swaps to non-memory optioned trucks.
If I had a better grasp of your goals I could take a stab at being more help.
Chris
the seats are not memory seats just power seats all iwant to do is up grade to leather and power thanks bigfootsd
 
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Old Oct 20, 2005 | 03:55 PM
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I don't see the problem. The seats will run on the bench with twelve volts. If the harness is not under the carpet, just run your own wire? I recommend 10 gauge, factory uses 12 gauge but why not use the best.

Power seats even ten way, just use three (or 4 on the ten way) electric motors.


There may be a module under there if the seats are heated, but I won't go into that unless you confirm the existance of a heater.

Assume they are just power; Look under the seats you want and you will see that unless they are memory seats, there is a rather simple wire harness under there that has a thick wire for ground and another thick wire for Hot.
Looking at the diagram for 2002, the power wire is always hot, and dark Green.
The Ground is Black.
Not too original...
So if you ground the black and feed 12v positive to the green, you have power seat.
The bolt up is another matter. If the seat mounts look the same, they should be the same.
Example, you can swap F-150 seats from the same body model. New model the seats all mount, previous model ditto.

On swapping in seats, always try to get the seats from the same door plan. Example Supercrew seats usually don't tip forward very much. Regular cab seats do tip forward.
That's the biggest common problem. Of course the tip forward part can be modified, but that's a different post...

The seat heaters if you get the module, also try to get the switches. They are a simple setup, but I won't post on that unless you need it.
Chris
 
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