Replacing LX470 seat with one from RX300?

[Mumblix]

OK...my driver's seat has no heat and the memory settings don't work. It looks a little bit different from the passenger seat. I think the guy before me replaced the driver's seat with a bargain basement seat. The adjustment buttons on the seat itself work OK. Replacement LX seats are expensive as hell. I can find RX300 seats at local wrecking yards, but not LX/LC. How hard would it be to put an RX300 seat on the LX rails?

 

[OklahomaOvrland]

If you suspect a seat swap, watch eBay for an original. A quick check with TechStream will show if the driver memory options are active, or even present. When I redid the leather on mine I had big issues with my original driver seat and bought a salvage unit on eBay. I found out it was from a non memory truck when my driver memory no longer worked. I had to swap the seat control unit from my original seat to the new one, to get the functionality back. Which the seat heat, I would be looking for a disconnected wire.

 

[Mumblix]

Hmm...I do have the OBD/USB dongle with Techstream on my laptop. I'll have to fool around with it. I'm just afraid I'll click the wrong thing and brick the truck. I think the guy before me was a meatball mechanic and did his own work. I hope he didn't "fix" too many other things. I have to get rid of the little DVD player screen he stuck to the headliner so I can get my dome light back.

 

[trdcorolla]

Check out the classifieds section in Mud, they have some 100 part out threads. Most of them are tan interiors.

 

[gungriffin]

It is also possible to go much more aftermarket with a Planted bracket. I have a Recaro Specialist M in my 100. The biggest upside is that I sit lower than I could with the stock seat. The best description I can offer is that I feel like I am within the vehicle now and more connected than I did with the OE seat. For reference, I am 6'0" with a long torso. My head almost touched the roof with the OE seat all the way down. The ONLY issue that I can see as a possibility, is that there isn't a height adjustment any longer. That ultimately isn't a huge issue for me.

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[DDabs]

Any photos of your Recaro, @gungriffin ?

 

[gungriffin]

Any photos of your Recaro, @gungriffin ?

I don't have any right now, but I will snap a photo tomorrow. The fit looks almost identical to Spressomon's seat in his 100. I just got back from wheeling all day and I am feeling good. Only a few hours in the stock seat and I had really bad back pain. My seat is grey and I have found that the looks have grown on me

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I've had a health issue since early December that kept me from moving forward with the t-case swap (with Marlin's 3:1 low range gear set). That's another project I hope to get done in the next month or less.

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