Hello all my name is Flynn I'm new here, I've just purchased a 2009 (5 RR the interior is a little tatty, looks someone has had a go at recolouring the ivory interior at some point and the drivers seat looked awful.

I found a full set of black seats, door cards and centre console arm rest for a decent price on eBay, drove a 5hr round trip to pick them up and started to fit them.

everything went in no issue at all until I got yo the drivers seat, I plugged the connectors in under the seat base and I have no movement from any of the switches ( I should add that the passengers seat is working fine). I checked for power at the car side connector and its good. its then that noticed that the wires on my seat base look different to the wires on the new seat?

is it going to be easier for me to try the rewire the connectors if possible or to strip the leather off the new seat and fit it to my old seat frame?

any suggestions or advice is greatly appreciated thanks in advance,

Flynn.

edit - I'll grab some images when I get to work this morning.

Welcome to the forum and congrats on the FF!


I can't be much help with the wiring but I recently had my interior redone and although I had sourced two identical front seats, I opted to have the leathers and foams swapped, instead of the whole seats.

This kind of issues was exactly what I was looking to avoid. I'd entrust this job to a professional though. You're lucky you'll only need half the work I paid for

Hi Flynn,

Assuming you've tried this already but try cycling the ignition, as the seat ECUs are designed to go into protection mode if they detect an issue. Also try disconnecting the battery for 2 minutes then reconnect.

I think the issue may relate to the seat ECUs, which went through numerous redesigns during the L322 life, and it will be different again if the donor seats have seat heating/cooling and the old ones heated only (or vice versa).

It doesn't take too long to just swap the cushions and leather, and you only need to do that on the front seats, so this is what I'd probably do, then you know everything will work. 2015 Range Rover Autobiography 4.4 SDV8

vs322 wrote:

Welcome to the forum and congrats on the FF!


I can't be much help with the wiring but I recently had my interior redone and although I had sourced two identical front seats, I opted to have the leathers and foams swapped, instead of the whole seats.

This kind of issues was exactly what I was looking to avoid. I'd entrust this job to a professional though. You're lucky you'll only need half the work I paid for

garyRR wrote:

Hi Flynn,

Assuming you've tried this already but try cycling the ignition, as the seat ECUs are designed to go into protection mode if they detect an issue. Also try disconnecting the battery for 2 minutes then reconnect.

I think the issue may relate to the seat ECUs, which went through numerous redesigns during the L322 life, and it will be different again if the donor seats have seat heating/cooling and the old ones heated only (or vice versa).

It doesn't take too long to just swap the cushions and leather, and you only need to do that on the front seats, so this is what I'd probably do, then you know everything will work.

Good you can tackle the job yourself. While I'm pretty handy with a spanner, interior and trims are outside of my comfort zone. While doing the seat cushions swap, you can switch passenger's with driver's and have fresh bolsters on the outside.