Leather seat help ASAP!!!

[golfgti10]

I have a 2004 Gti with manual seats, I've been offered a set of leather seats from a 56 plate but they are electric adjusters are they just plug and play or will I have to wire them up to make the electric part work

Need answers ASAP please people

[xjay1337]

All you need is a permanent live wire and an earth, so you can take it from any permanent live on the car.

very easy. if you fuse it which you should use a 20 or 25amp.

[golfgti10]

So the Eletric part of the seat will be on a different plug? and won't work by using my existing plug I already have in the car

[xjay1337]

All you need to do is wire up a permanent live and an earth to the seat.

[golfgti10]

But how??? I'm rubbish with this, the new seats have three plugs I'm guessing they are heated, Eletric and my airbag


Quick question is there any way of swapping the bottoms of seats so the leather seats sit on the frame and wiring of my old ones?

[golfgti10]

I'm know being told that the seat is manual but had a electrical price on the side that goes up down and left and right any ideas on what this might be if the seat is manual

[edd666999]

I'm know being told that the seat is manual but had a electrical price on the side that goes up down and left and right any ideas on what this might be if the seat is manual

The leather seats are electric, they move up down forward and backwards electrically.

They will fit but will require you to get extra wire and connect the seats to a live and a ground on the car. If you don't understand that don't buy them.

The manual part of the seat is possibly if a 3door so you can get in the back.

They will be heated, to get the heated part working you again need to get new wire, a loom made up. Also the center dash unit that controls your heating will need to change as the heated controls are located there.

[xjay1337]

Heated requires a new dash panel and the Kufatec loom as well.

It's literally two wires from the seat to a live and an earth(ground). It's really simple...
It can vary from seat to seat but the huge block connector is the heated seats the tiny little one is normally the seat belt plugged in warning and the yellow one is the air bag... the electric seats you will just make a wire up to the fuse box perhaps.

If you don't understand that I would recommend taking them to someone who understands electrics simply because you can easily pop fuses/blow relays if you do something wrong with the fusebox as I found out with my old car when I popped 90% of the fuses.

[golfgti10]

So can I just swap the bottom of the seats so I have the old ones on the new leather so I have the old wiring loom on the leather seat

Does the bottom just unscrew

[xjay1337]

No...
You don't need to swap any thing over. Just match up the plugs you have already you'll find you probably have one the heated plug and a small electric one.

[golfgti10]

My seats at the moment aren't heated or Eletric what I'm saying is there any way to swap the bottoms over on to the leather seats to keep my existing wiring

[xjay1337]

No.

You don't HAVE to wire up the heated or electric seats... you can just leave the wires unplugged.

[golfgti10]

So if I don't wire them up it will be fine, if I just plug the airbag one in so I don't get any dash lights and I can still adjust the seat by using the manual bit

That right

[xjay1337]

I'm trying, so, so hard to explain this.. 

you can't adjust the electric seat without having wired up a LIVE AND EARTH to the power plug on the seat....
But you don't NEED to plug them in for the seats to fit.

To stop having the airbag light come on you will need to plug in the airbag connector before you turn the ignition on or it will need resetting with VCDS.

[golfgti10]

right so say they arent eletrical and manual and heated i can get away without connecting the heated seat plug and all would be good