WRX Seats

Crazy_pilot · #1 12-28-2007, 05:51 PM

Mwahahaha, time for another WRX-to-SVX seat swap. My big bonus: Heated seats!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm going to (hopefully) be buying a set of heated, airbagged, 04 WRX seats from a local guy. I know Sicksubie has swapped these in, so it's do-able, but what about the heated part? Any thoughts on how I can swap that sort of thing in to my car? And is there any way to safely remove the airbags? I don't need them, might as well kill off the extra weight.

By the way, sicksubie, your original how-to thread has lost it's pictures. Any chance you could put those somewhere view-able?

Johnybeas · #2 12-28-2007, 05:54 PM

if you get this done and get the heated thing to work I'd be interested to see how you do it... sounds kinda appealing to me... how much are they gonna cost you???

Crazy_pilot · #3 12-28-2007, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Johnybeas

if you get this done and get the heated thing to work I'd be interested to see how you do it... sounds kinda appealing to me... how much are they gonna cost you???

A $265 camera. It's a trade, I buy him the camera online, I get the seats.

Johnybeas · #4 12-28-2007, 06:00 PM

lol nice.... lemme know how it ends up...

Hondasucks · #5 12-28-2007, 06:12 PM

remove the headrest, un bolt the seat back from the seat bottom (Not necessary, just makes it easier), and remove the hogs rings that secure the seat fabric to the frame, at the bottom. The fabric should slide off the seat, sometimes they come off inside out, just depends on how tight it is to the inner foam. Once this is off, you should be able to remove the air bag modules. You might have to fill the cavities in with foam, I don't know how they do them since I've never had an air bagged seat apart, but chances are there will be a hole you'll have to stuff some foam in. You might be able to separate the explosive charge from the air bag module and put the module back in, but like I said, I've never had one apart, I've had a seat apart, but it wasn't a bagged one lol.

Crazy_pilot · #6 12-29-2007, 02:55 PM

I now have my new seats sitting happily in my basement. To the nay-sayers who think these are a poor substitute for the SVX furniture, I was once like you! Even on the ride home I was looking from the WRX seat to the SVX seat and thinking I'd made a horrible mistake. Then I got home, pulled the seats out, and sat in one. That's all it took. Try these once, just sit in them, and you'll be convinced. The suede is super soft, the bolsters are amazing, perfect snugness level...I'm converted.

So onwards: Anyone have thoughts on how I can get the heating units to work? I'd really like to take full advantage of all the feature I have here

I may decide to buy a leather set for the seats. Check out the leather kit in this WRX That's what I may do, or may not. The suede in these seats is really so nice I might just keep it.