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Ridgeback
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Leather interior swap
« on: Apr 18th, 2009, 11:44am » |
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Hi folks
I've been looking at the excellent technical advice and after buying a Scorpio Ghia estate (big dog/2 kids  )
I need some help!
I've picked up a mint Ultima leather interior off E-bay for 40 quid and have fitted it apart from the drivers seat,as the motors have stumped me.
How can I get the electrics to work on my Ghia?
this seat has electric fore and aft adjustment, whereas the original has just an electric backrest.
Being a complete muppet at electrical things,would it be easier to swap the sub frames,or is there a way of making the complete seat work?
Cheers,Darren.
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Re: Leather interior swap
« Reply #1 on: Apr 18th, 2009, 1:26pm » |
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Hi Darren, some cars have the complete loom fitted to plug the seats into although i'm not sure if they all do.
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« Reply #2 on: Apr 18th, 2009, 9:55pm » |
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Hi Darren!
You can get your seats running quite easily.
You've got a socket with 2 wires coming out form your's Ghia floor. [black [-] and orange-yellow[+] ]
Now there was a plug with 2 pins in your original seat. Cut it off, you're gonna need it.
In your new seat there's a plug way bigger then other plugs around it. It has 4 or 6 pins, can't remember.
Anyway, there are two wires much thicker then the other ones in it. Black [-] and orange-blue or orange [+]
Cut them off and attach to the plug from your old seat, plug them into the socket in you floor [remember about the correct polarisation] and there you go!
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« Reply #3 on: Apr 18th, 2009, 10:01pm » |
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ps. don't worry about the other plugs and wires coming out from your new seat. they all are memory or heating related and you won't need them to get all the motors running. do like I wrote and it has to work.
if you're not sure of anything drop me a line here and post photos of your plugs and sockets so i can then give you a more detailed instruction.
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Re: Leather interior swap
« Reply #4 on: Apr 18th, 2009, 11:19pm » |
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40 quid !!! blimey thats a result , i ws looking for a all leather interior for my dads 1994 4.0 jag xjs(lovely motor) and some of the prices were scary , one bloke (cant remember where) wanted 3 grand  ..............yep , 3 grand , for that sort of money i want the rest of the car with it
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« Reply #5 on: Apr 18th, 2009, 11:36pm » |
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rich1 leather interior for Scorpio is one of the cheapest... don't know why... i got mine in mint condition, both seats fully electric, with the armrest, door cards etc. + the loom and everything needed to plug in the heating for 120£. the only thing that needed changing were the seatbelt pretensioners; got those from my original seats
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Re: Leather interior swap
« Reply #6 on: Apr 19th, 2009, 5:25pm » |
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Thanks wojtekor,all
I'll crack on with it tomorrow,when I get in from work and let you know how it's gone
Darren.
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« Reply #7 on: Apr 19th, 2009, 5:46pm » |
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Not a problem. If you've got any difficulties let me know...
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« Reply #9 on: Apr 22nd, 2009, 12:35am » |
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Ridgeback did u get it working?
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Re: Leather interior swap
« Reply #10 on: Apr 22nd, 2009, 9:21am » |
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on Apr 20th, 2009, 11:40pm, Highlander wrote:
Hands off, that one's mine lol.
In negotiations at the mo with the seller for some other bits too.
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Re: Leather interior swap
« Reply #11 on: Apr 22nd, 2009, 10:42pm » |
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if your seats came out of a later facelift car they may well have air bags in them for side inpact,
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Re: Leather interior swap
« Reply #12 on: Apr 23rd, 2009, 1:52pm » |
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on Apr 22nd, 2009, 10:42pm, Matt wrote:| if your seats came out of a later facelift car they may well have air bags in them for side inpact, |
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true but in that case u just leave them unplugged.... just plug in the seatbelt pretensioner and voilą!
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