heres my interior let me know what you yall think so far. still need to get the console doors and seats upholstered.

 

Have you got the seats and lid upholstered yet? It will look awesome when done.

I picked up the same seats for my Lightning ('99 Navigator), and a wide top console ('00 Expedition). I ordered new leather for the seats from Leatherseats.com and an extra quarter bolt of leather to cover the lid, map pockets, door panels, and visors. I'm hoping to get the leather in a week so I can get started on the install.

Did your seats come heated? If so, how did you wire it up? I haven't found a how-to online yet for it.

 

qurtrn10, how much did the leatherseats and extra leather cost?

 

About $750.

 

going black on the seats too?

 

Are these leatherskins slip on, or replacements?

 

Nah, everyone does that.

Replacements.

 

I just noticed that I never updated here. Here's how mine turned out:



On the next interior go around, I'll take matching leather and cover the headliner, visors, and door panel fabric.

 

Those seats are sexy! How hard was it to get the heated seats to work?

 

I haven't got around to wiring up the heated seats just yet, but I will soon. I have to finish one other project before I can do that.

Whenever I run anything electrical, I try to make it as factory correct as possible. Instead of running a power wire from the battery to the seats for the heat, or splicing in to some other random key on power source, I'm going a different route.

Fuse 118 in the distribution block under the hood is meant for the heated seat power wire. Power goes into that fuse space on one side, but there's no wire going out the other side to the rest of the truck, so putting a fuse in the space doesn't connect anything together. I'm going to have a shop install a spade on the other side of that fuse space and run a wire from that fuse space to the firewall plug, connecting it into the harness plug. Then I'm going to have them run another wire (same color pattern) from the cab side of the firewall harness plug to the seats, trying to wrap it in the seat harness as I go. Once the wires are ran, all I should have to do is plug in a fuse and the wire will be live.

While they're doing that, I'm going to ask them to the rest of the regular unused fuses (9 of them), fuse 12 (rear aux power point - I'll wire the power supply in the bed somewhere later), and fuse 15 (running board lamps - I'll be adding some mirrors with puddle lamps and can tie the wiring in to that circuit). There are also some unused relays and circuit breaker spaces, so I'll discuss with the shop how they could be used, and if they should be used.

I just hate seeing extra wires run when the stock system has plenty of room for expansion. It's a little more work, but it should make for a much cleaner install.

 

wow keep forgettting to check this post lol. but gurtrn so far just got the console lid and the panels upholsterd just having a very hard time doing the arm rest on the doors might end up taking it to a shop to do. but dam man the lightning looks so much better with the console and seats!!! that leather looks good. might have to check them out right now. and patman im thinking leaving them tan also want to do black carpet. the seats are heated and i havent tackled that project yet not really sure if my truck came with a harness for power seats just like you havent found a how to post sucks! also since that pic a installed a sub in the rear console so ill put up pics tomorrow!!