Trying to figure out how to wire up these seats and bolt them down into my LX450. If anyone has done, please advise. Thank you. Picked these up from a local Salvage for $250. Amazingly comfortable and quite a few adjustable parts.
LX450 front seat swap with L322 Range Rover seats
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Do these have the adjustment switches in the bases or were they in the center consol like the Disco2?
voodu3
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What do the mounting bases look like? How wide are the mounting points? You can get a planted or corbeau bracket to mount them to that for the 80. As far as wiring there are a bunch schematics on the Land Rover forums for the seat wiring.
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I should have attached all photos. Here they are...
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two more
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just sayin.... i drove a Range Rover Evoque for three years... I think Land Rover does the best job in driver ergonomics...these are great seats.
voodu3
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Those flat bases look good. These are the brackets I have. Planted Seat Bracket- Toyota Land Cruiser 80 Series [J80] (1990-1997) - Driver / Left - https://www.plantedtechnology.com/collections/toyota/products/planted-seat-bracket-toyota-land-cruiser-80-series-j80-1990-1997-driver-left?_pos=1&_fid=fad847450&_ss=c
If I remember right they are 17” wide so as long as the RR seat tracks aren’t wider than that you can drill holes and bolt them in.
If I remember right they are 17” wide so as long as the RR seat tracks aren’t wider than that you can drill holes and bolt them in.
mudgudgeon
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Those three plugs together look suspiciously like these had an ECU under each seat.
They look very similar to the Audi seats i or in my 80.
Theres a heavy red power wire there, and the multi function control switches look small, like they are probably micro switches, switching signal wires for ECU only, not direct current for motors.
My Audi seats need 15 amp power feed for each seat. That was to drive motors only, No seat heaters.
mudgudgeon
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You haven't said what year/ model range rover the seats are from. I suspect you'll need to know
Real quick google search, this one looks to have the same plug configuration. No idea if it's the correct unit
Real quick google search, this one looks to have the same plug configuration. No idea if it's the correct unit
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Thank you @mudgudgeon. This is helpful. So what should be the next step once i have the module. I am assuming that these plugs need to be plugged into the module and i need to provide power to the module, that should be it. Nothing else needs to be done to get the seats go back and forth, up and down and the back of the seat reclines back and forth. Also the lumbar adjustment. Dont care about memory seats but the heating would be nice to have.
mudgudgeon
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It may depend on the spec level of the donor vehicle.
My Audi s4 seats only need +12ve and ground. Everything was controlled at the seat by the body control module.
No heaters in my seats.
My seats had a position memory function, but without the original key, and who knows what else, there was no way to activate it.
My driver seat would randomly return to a saved position.
I removed the ECU and built a circuit board and relay control system for one seat, still haven't gotten around to doing the same to my driver seat, just pulled the fuse on that one.
My Audi s4 seats only need +12ve and ground. Everything was controlled at the seat by the body control module.
No heaters in my seats.
My seats had a position memory function, but without the original key, and who knows what else, there was no way to activate it.
My driver seat would randomly return to a saved position.
I removed the ECU and built a circuit board and relay control system for one seat, still haven't gotten around to doing the same to my driver seat, just pulled the fuse on that one.
mudgudgeon
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To add to that, the Audi seats had one harness from the body to the seat.
It had 12 volt, ground. And 'safety yellow' airbag cabling. Thats about it.
Where do these heavy red, brown, white/red wires go?
Do they go to an empty connector?
They'll be power & ground to the ECU and probably switched power to the base adjustment motors for forward/rear position, and base up/down/tilt. In the Audi, these notors were larger and drew the most current. They have to lift& shift your fat @ss
Ps, no idea if your glutei maximi are maximutive or diminutive. Sorry
It had 12 volt, ground. And 'safety yellow' airbag cabling. Thats about it.
Where do these heavy red, brown, white/red wires go?
Do they go to an empty connector?
They'll be power & ground to the ECU and probably switched power to the base adjustment motors for forward/rear position, and base up/down/tilt. In the Audi, these notors were larger and drew the most current. They have to lift& shift your fat @ss
Ps, no idea if your glutei maximi are maximutive or diminutive. Sorry
