Changing Seats

[Phil-osopher10]

Maybe a silly question, but is it easy enough to change the seats from the normal spec to the FR alcantara seats? I can pick them up at a reasonable cost and think they'd be a significant enough upgrade over the bog standardones.

Secondly, I assume provided the airbag hasn't deployed, they are safe enough to get from a scrap yard?

 

[Mo_86]

Bringing up a very old thread with no answer rather than starting another,
I'm going to replace my part leather seats on my facelift to full leather pre facelift seats.
Can i swap them over and just use them for now without airbag errors etc?
In the summer i will be getting the heated function sorted etc but for now would like to just install and use them.

 

[LeylandVCDS]

Only just seen this thread, yes you can swap seats, the airbag plugs are the same pre-facelift and facelift. I've had my half leather, half alcantara interior in both my previous 64 plate pre-facelift SE Tech, and my current 19 plate facelift SE Dynamic, they were plug and play as far as airbags go. I too sorted the heated seats bit out at a later date, just leave the heating plug out of the way and connect the yellow airbag plugs.
Just a bit of advice - it is easy to scratch the sills with the seat runners if you try to get the seats out through the door, especially the drivers side where the steering wheel gets in the way, and to avoid this, just unbolt the old front seats, fold the rear seats and take the front seats out backwards through the hatchback, same with the new ones going in.

 

[Mo_86]

Only just seen this thread, yes you can swap seats, the airbag plugs are the same pre-facelift and facelift. I've had my half leather, half alcantara interior in both my previous 64 plate pre-facelift SE Tech, and my current 19 plate facelift SE Dynamic, they were plug and play as far as airbags go. I too sorted the heated seats bit out at a later date, just leave the heating plug out of the way and connect the yellow airbag plugs.
Just a bit of advice - it is easy to scratch the sills with the seat runners if you try to get the seats out through the door, especially the drivers side where the steering wheel gets in the way, and to avoid this, just unbolt the old front seats, fold the rear seats and take the front seats out backwards through the hatchback, same with the new ones going in.

Seats are in all fine, no airbag warnings etc, was easier than I thought.
Will look at retrofitting the heated seats in Autumn.
Thanks!